Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Tom (tb.31020.nospam_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/07/03

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    Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:53:40 -0800
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    On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
    <snip>
    > Let's say you're a barn builder. People need barns and are used to buying
    > barns now-a-days. You go around to the community and suggest a community
    > barn-raising project. Everyone agrees but you soon find out the participants
    > are barn users and not barn builders. The community is more than happy to
    > use the barn you give them for free if you'll do it for free. You talk to
    > your family and they remind you that they'll starve if you build barns for
    > free. So you offer to build barns for a price and you find that people are
    > willing to buy the barns because they don't want to learn barn-building.
     
    More like one day I woke up an realized: god, these barn-builders sure
    are selling shitty barns. I think I'll build with sod instead :-)

    It would be different if some people had gold-covered barns, but
    everybody with a closed-source O/S is sitting there in a crappy barn,
    saying "this is how barns should be; write a whitepaper on how the door
    shouldn't be closed, anyway."

    > The quilting bee in the church basement, on the other hand, is a well-oiled
    > machine because there are enough quilters that can do the work and enjoy it
    > and they all get quilts out of the deal which is good because it gets chilly
    > at night around there. So they turn up regularly to quilt and talk trash
    > about the people that are not quilters - especially that barn builder that
    > first said he was going to build a free barn for everybody in town but later
    > changed his mind and how he should just get a barn-raising group together and
    > everybody should help to build barns for everone in the group just like they
    > do with quilts.
    >
    > I can relate to the barn builder in my own endeavors. I sure like that quilt
    > on my bed too.
    > --
    > Mike Mueller
    > 324881 (08/20/2003)
    > Make clockwise circles with your right foot.
    > Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air.
    >
    >
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