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From: Craig on 17 Jun 2010 19:26 On 06/17/2010 03:52 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote: > I would hate to see this group be > dominated by Linux discussions... Great. Another irony-meter b0rken. -- -Craig
From: za kAT on 17 Jun 2010 19:36 On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:52:42 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: > za kAT <zakAT(a)super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in > news:hvd2v6$bbr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:54:00 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: >> >>> za kAT <zakAT(a)super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in >>> news:hvbqmt$ooq$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: >>> >>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:41:24 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>> >>>>> za kAT <zakAT(a)super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in >>>>> news:hvbhhi$nmv$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:10:32 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> What's in a Name? <maxpro4u(a)hotmail.com> wrote in >>>>>>> news:20100614144306.7671e424.maxpro4u(a)hotmail.com: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Most users use whatever OS came on their PC. Most PCs come with >>>>>>>> some flavor of windows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There is good reason for that. For the most part when the >>>>>>> Internet took off (even a bit before), there was Windows or Mac >>>>>>> (who was too market dumb to capture the market). Linux wasn't >>>>>>> even born >>>>>> >>>>>> More waffle. When did the Internet take off bumhole? >>>>>> >>>>>> Linus first post was 1991. HTML 1.0 formally published 1993. >>>>>> >>>>>> Windows 3.11 1993. Did that have a browser. I don't remember one. >>>>>> BBS maybe. >>>>>> >>>>>> If you are going to play the elder statesman, at least check your >>>>>> facts. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cretinous. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Linux was in it's infancy and had no hope to compete. You need to >>>>> accept it. It still can't compete. You need to accept that too. >>>> >>>> Listen dickbrain, you don't set the criteria. Linux competes on many >>>> levels. You don't win a rally with a formula one car. Your >>>> assumptions are brainless, you still can't get into that stupid head >>>> of yours that not everybody here is interested in desktop >>>> organisers, and that stupid VoIP dongle bollocks you keep plugging. >>>> >>> >>> The market is in desktop computers (PC's) for the desktop OS. Linux >>> has failed miserably there. That is where Linux wants to be but can't >>> get. >> >> What is Linux? I'll have a go at describing what you choose to >> misunderstand. Linux isn't a single entity with a desire to conquer >> the desktop. It's a loose confederation of thousands of different >> interests. It's a big kit. Take from it what you will. Contribute what >> you will. There is no common soul that wants to conquer the desktop. >> There are some parties who aim to grab a share, and who are doing so >> for various motives. Some more altruistic than others. >> >> You are fixated on the desktop. Many of us are not. Some seem to like >> it as a desktop. I don't use it as one, but I do use it and FreeBSD >> for other things. This is alt.comp.freeware. I don't see desktop, or >> windows, or any other delimiter based on market share that restricts >> what can be discussed here in that title. >> >>> Face up to it. >>> I'm not interested in what companies are doing, though most of them >>> aren't running Linux either. >> >> This newsgroup is not just about your interests. It's about freeware. >> Any freeware. Face up to it. >> > > I haven't said anywhere that Linux may not be discussed here. You again > invent argument to try and find high ground. Sure. We believe you. You never invent argument do you Butthole... You consistently pass comment on what should be discussed. You have in this thread. You have very little understanding of Linux so why comment? Do you see me commenting on desktop organisers, or mp3 players, or codecs beyond installing K-lite? Nope, and the reason is, I know pretty much sod all about those subjects. > Considering Linux (the entire entity) only comprises barely 1% of the > desktop market thus the majority of users of this group seek free desktop > apps for Windows (and not Mac), I would hate to see this group be > dominated by Linux discussions... It's so much better now the Linux chaps/chapettes are posting. We need a lot more Mac posters as well. Mac lurkers show your freewares!!!! > especially considering the number of > groups and forums already dedicated to Linux. I would also hate to see > this group dominated by Mac discussions. That is what I prefer. What > happens, happens in this unmoderated newsgroup. Have you got limited bandwidth or something? Otherwise, what's the deal? If a Linux thread starts up, don't comment. IGNORE IT!!! The problem is you can't stand to be left out of the conversation. See a shrink FFS!!!! -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for denigration!
From: DissidentArmy on 17 Jun 2010 20:42 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:25:16 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > Craig <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in news:hveavo$alp$2 > @news.eternal-september.org: > >> On 06/17/2010 03:52 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> I would hate to see this group be >>> dominated by Linux discussions... >> >> Great. Another irony-meter b0rken. >> >> > That you are one of the 1% Linux desktop lovers, doesn't mean this > group, whose history has been primarily Windows freeware, should be > turned into a Linux forum...there are plenty of those. Yeah, and in all those groups your expertise regarding freeware is estimated correctly, reason why we don't see you there. -- http://dissidentarmy.be/main
From: Craig on 17 Jun 2010 20:42 On 06/17/2010 05:25 PM, Bear Bottoms wrote: > doesn't mean this group...should be turned into a Linux forum False dilemma. -- -Craig
From: DissidentArmy on 17 Jun 2010 20:54
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:26:34 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:87vohjF5mcU1(a)mid.individual.net: > >>> If those people used Linux or Mac's, those would be very likely >>> infected. I'm sure there is money to be made helping out Linux users. >>> It's just not as many Linux users availalable to sustain a business. >> >> Idiot. >> >> > LOL, kinda hard to argue against that eh Mark. No, he's right, you're an idiot, companies enough that do very well by providing support for Linux. More and more governments study implementation of Linux in stead of Windows, because in office environment Linux get's the job done as well as windows without the price tag. Linux is even easier to use in office environment then Windows Vista or Windows 7 and almost none of the users have difficulties when they start working for the first time with Linux in the office. They change from XP to W7 is bigger then the one from XP to Linux. -- http://dissidentarmy.be/main |