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From: Bradley, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Redhat_Post' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Bigot.
>All the commercial operating system providers now charge a fee for
>support. Even then, you te
At 06:19 AM 6/16/98 PDT, Joe Tseng wrote:
>>
>>At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>>I have observed trait in
>>many otherwise brilliant people who comment simply that *NIX is for
>computer
>>types no one else where they are constantly shown that they can operate
>>windows
>>with jus
At 09:06 6/17/98 +1000, Bradley, Greg wrote:
>The problem is still, that I must know that Linux exists and that I want
>it, before I can subscribe to a journal to find somewhere that I can get
>it from.
>WIN95 screams at me from every newspaper advertisment and editorial.
>When was the last time y
> From: Michael Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 6:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FW: Linux Bigot.
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> Bradley, Greg wrote:
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> > When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publication
> > t
> From: Michael Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 6:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FW: Linux Bigot.
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> Bradley, Greg wrote:
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> > When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publication
> > t
> The problem is still, that I must know that Linux exists and that I want
> it, before I can subscribe to a journal to find somewhere that I can get
> it from.
> WIN95 screams at me from every newspaper advertisment and editorial.
> When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publica
Bradley, Greg wrote:
> When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publication
> that advertised availability of Linux?
. . . or a non-tech, non-Linux Web site that advertised the fact that it runs
on on a Linux box (as opposed to, say, M$*** IIS or the countless
'best-if-viewed
advertised availability of Linux?
Regards
Greg
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From: Paul F Almquist
To: Bradley, Greg
Subject: Re: Linux Bigot.
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 1998 3:58PM
There are several companies that advertise regularly in Linux Journal
that sell machines with linux installed--VA Research and Promox are
From: Zoki
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Subject: Re: Linux Bigot??
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 1998 3:49PM
>Another Windows prog port a la Communicator
>is a good example of how it's not supposed to be done. It got ported so
>"well", it kept the same b
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Subject: Re: FW: Linux Bigot.
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 1998 4:10PM
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
->>While I can see that this may be the case in Australia,
->>all folks in the US have to do is pick up the phone and dial
>
>At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>I have observed trait in
>many otherwise brilliant people who comment simply that *NIX is for
computer
>types no one else where they are constantly shown that they can operate
>windows
>with just there mouse... They are convinced by salespeople
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Woody wrote:
->I can't agree with you more!!! That's been my opinion for a lng
->timeget it into the stores...get those Windows apps converted for the
->Linux users and watch em' come a flockin' to a better, and more robust
->operating system.
*** Hi Woody, hi e
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
->>While I can see that this may be the case in Australia,
->>all folks in the US have to do is pick up the phone and dial a
->toll-free
->>number to order a preinstalled Linux system.
->
->Actually, I read the Nader letter to IBM, he was unable to purcha
d, and he provided a long list, sans
windows let alone with another operating system installed. Of course he
was talking 'NAME' brands, non the less, it appears that the options for
pre-installed Linux are few.
Regards
Greg
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To: Bradley, Greg
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> At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
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> >From: Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
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>Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:27 PM
>Subject: Re: Linux
My post in reply
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From: Gregory Bradley
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Bradley, Greg
Subject: Linux
Date: Sunday, 14 June 1998 8:18PM
Reasons for usage of Linux:
Price
Its free
Stability
Linux is incredibly stable. Because the source code is freely available,
bugs tend to be found and cor
WOW, and all I did was point out that Linux has over 600 things I think are
GREAT,
but named 15 of them, and asked if he thinks he has any credibility left in the
non-M$ world.
Dale Leonard wrote:
> Here is the message I sent to the idiot columnist>sniped...for
> brevity...
Well, I sent email response, polite, and yet as informative as possible, for a
newbie of three months. I mentioned "Time" nomination of Linus and the fact
that Linux cannot be judged by a comparison to an experimental Kernal
like Beowulf, The fact that intelligent folks are too busy studying and
>>And I can honestly say that had my first computer been a
>>pentium with windoze, I would not have fallen completely in love with
>>technology the way that I did.
I couldn't agree more. My history of computer use makes Linux all the more
appealing, and that article all the more disturbing. I
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From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Bigot??
>Bere are some quotes from the angry mail I sent the author of that article:
>"You write fr
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From: Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Bigot??
>This guy is an idiot.
That's not useful at all.
H
Here is the message I sent to the idiot columnist>
>>Will someone tell me what's so great about Linux?
>
>For one thing it comes with Appletalk (NetAtalk) and SMB (Samba) servers
>for free!!!
>
>For another thing it comes with about 400 MB of software packages that can
>do nearly everything u
I know this is off topic, but I didn't know if it'd get published and I
thought some of you might find it interesting, or at least long & boring.
:-0 For those of you that missed the earlier thread, this is my response
to the article at:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0608/08week.html
I g
Um. . . guys, I hate to hear somebody like that carry on like an idiot,
but let's take stock a little.
He obviously pays attention to the wrong things (maybe deliberately);
it's hard to imagine what typos in a Usenet posting from Linus have to
do with the utility of an operating system. My guess
Bere are some quotes from the angry mail I sent the author of that article:
"You write from the point of view of someone who obviously thinks that an
operating system should be drag and drop and [you obviously] never
considered using the command prompt. Also, you never bothered to install
Linux, t
Welp, there was talk about this guy on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a couple days ago, so I couldn't help myself and I wrote
the below message to him.
Look at his response. He spent about as much time reading
my email as he did using linux.
This guy is a melvin. People like this need to be exposed
and
>From what I read in the article, it sounds like he didn't even try to
install Linux.
Basically, he's knocking something he's never even experienced.
Didn't his mother ever say, "How do you know you don't like Brussel Sprouts
until you try them!"(Not that I am comparing Linux to Brussel Sprouts
This guy is an idiot.
-jeremy
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0608/08week.html
>
> Looks as though zdnet has there eye on Linux now.
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http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0608/08week.html
Looks as though zdnet has there eye on Linux now.
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