We can loose the language on here.
This is an all ages board so if you want to get into this take it to the
politics list.
Bill P.
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From: "Robert Snyder" <robertsnyder@gmail.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] OT: M$ deals the final blow
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:11:54 -0400, Steve Szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
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> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:25 am, Knowles Burrell wrote:
> > > >>No corporation with experienced admins allow autoupdate.
> > > >
> > > >I thought that was one of the big deals about Gentoo and Debian.
> > >
> > > Are you saying they auto update without having any user interaction? I
> > > have used both distro's and currently I am using Gentoo. Neither of
> >
> > Haha. No, the thread was about ms updates.
> >
> > I decided to make fun of the all evil ms view, as it's exaggerated. They
act
> > in a manner which one could easily call evil, but is simply an
egotistical
> > and highly irresponsible way, for a market leader to be operating.
> >
> > When I typed "evil overlords" I had a big smile on my face. The point of
that
> > being that in email, you cannot readily tell what is the emotion of the
> > person who wrote it is. And in the very next sentence I backed down from
the
> > evil description. Written communication can often be read in more than
one
> > way, and to top it off, people often misread things.
> >
> > Kind of like that silly ink blob test. Where you're asked to say what
you see.
> > (And they don't mean ink either. Haha. : )
> >
> > Back in the early windows vs Mac war there were some very heated
discussions
> > on the the subject. To me, it was amazing how emotional people could get
> > about something like an operating system. It's just a dumb tool with
zero
> > intelligence.
> >
> > Of course a tool can be crappy and not at all perform as advertized and
That
> > can become rather annoying, to say the least. So one can get upset with
the
> > manufacturer. Especially when they are a court acknowledged monopoly.
> >
> > The fact that they make more money than many countries, and still have a
> > crappy product with EULA's and policies that is only good for them...
Well
> > let's just say that you don't exactly feel like supporting them in all
the
> > selfish, nah - destructive ways of operating, which they pursue.
> >
> > As far as Robert having the right to say what he wants. Well of course
he
> > does! My comment was initiated by him saying "shut up" to Chris. It
seemed
> > kinda out of place to be appearing such a staunch defender of windows
and
> > their ways. Which a number of his emails looks like. I don't care if he
is,
> > but being a SLUG list, anti ms posts are to be expected and not
reasonably
> > silenced either.
> >
> > - --
> > Steve
> >
> > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
> > neither liberty nor safety."
> > Benjamin Franklin
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> I said it before and I will say it again steve.
>
> Does windows have way too many issues - yes
> Is windows full of security holes and haven for zombie spam machines yes
>
> But should I let people spread bs and that what it is BS about it no
>
> MS had to give you a way of turning it off and it can be down with a
> matter of 5 whole clicks. and it so hard having to expect some one to
> go to the control panel and turn off automatic updates.
>
>
> Now if this was osx i would say the say thing. I will not sit around
> and let people go off and spread just utter bullshit....
>
> Damn right i told him to shut up just like i would of told him shut up
> if i was in the same room as he was.
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