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5 Nov 2024 13:26:36 EST (-0500)
  Re: Yet another Doctor John rant  
From: Doctor John
Date: 31 Mar 2008 09:27:10
Message: <47f0f4be@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> 
>> right now M$ is offering vin de
>> pays at champagne prices (plus FUD tax) and the man in the street is
>> buying because he's been told (by M$) that the vintage wine that my lot
>> is selling is worthless because you need to be a master sommelier just
>> to drink it and it can't be that good anyway since it doesn't cost as
>> much as theirs.
> 
> Agreed. Annoying, isn't it?
> 
>> Finally, back to the majority point - I run and recommend Linux because
>> 80% of the world's supercomputers run on it. The other 20% sure as hell
>> don't use M$.
> 
> How many people use a supercomputer to read their email? ;-)

I was speaking ironically. Shoulda used <irony> tags. ;-)
The reason I use and recommend Linux is because it's stable, secure and
open source.

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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