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30 Jul 2024 12:21:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Old fart?  
From: Alain
Date: 19 Apr 2011 17:59:27
Message: <4dae05bf@news.povray.org>
Le 2011/04/19 16:31, Orchid XP v8 a écrit :
>>> Admittedly I don't know hundreds of thousands of people. Still, the vast
>>> majority of people I know IRL don't know what Linux is, have never heard
>>> of Firefox, and think MS Office is the only "proper" office suite. You
>>> know, as if anything you can download for free off the Internet is
>>> either an illegal pirate copy or a shoddy imitation.
>>
>> Many people do feel that way. I remember reading a story in the past
>> year about a teacher who told a student to get rid of that Linux stuff
>> because they must've pirated it - nobody gives stuff away for free.
>
> I remember reading about a memory of library stuff who saw somebody
> using Telnet. She screamed "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE HACKING OUR COMPUTERS!!!"
> and turned the computer off at the wall. The guy tried to explain what
> he was actually doing, but she wouldn't have it.
>
> Apparently there are a lot of stupid people...
>

Look at
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
for many samples.


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