-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:29:42AM +1200, cr wrote: > Agreed, but unfortunately there's all this spurious 'compatible' crap. > Nobody was ever scared off buying a GM car because it wasn't > 'Ford-compatible'.
Really? So that's why you see so many government issue vehicles that aren't a Ford Crown Victoria or a Chevrolet Impala, or if it's been on the road for a while, a Fordrolet Crown Impala. There's not a whole lot that can't be exchanged between those two on most model years. > I get sick of having to explain to M$ users who don't know any > better that, yes, I can display JPG's in Linux and no, I don't need > M$ Word, there are perfectly good word processors, possibly even > better ones, available for other platforms, and yes, of course I can > read websites in Linux, the Net was *built* on Unix machines..... Fortunately, the Portland area seems to have, for the most part, computer users who understand life beyond Windows. While most machines here run Windows, it seems like there's a lot more BSD, Linux and Mac users around here than in most areas. It's been years since I've encountered someone as ignorant as you describe, and even then it was by telephone from San Bruno, California. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dFqVJ5vLSqVpK2kRAtlnAKDeuCRTlsHnIRB0FkvO14dDhsGgdQCgvOew 1vAOIv7IiNIDJGlze0ZbSS8= =Wibu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
