Mark Kent wrote:
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
Apples and bananas
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| This statement is incorrect in almost every sense. To go through it
| point for point:
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| * Linux is a great example of the old adage "you don?t get owt for
| nowt": I assume Mr Benson is referring to the GNU/Linux distributions
| rather than the Linux kernel itself, and in particular to desktop
| distributions, nonetheless my reply concerns all these...
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| * [GNU/Linux] is not free: Actually it is. Both the GNU/Linux
| Distributions and the Linux kernel are free in almost all senses
| of the word...
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| * [Y]ou pay for the support of [GNU/Linux]: I do not know about you, or
| Mr Benson, but I do not pay for GNU/Linux support as I support my
| sites myself.
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| * There are so many flavours [of GNU/Linux] that it dilutes any potent-
| ial attractiveness: What a curious thing to say. Taking that argument
| to its logical conclusion would be like saying a cafï should not sell
| ice cream because the attractiveness of that is diluted due to too
| many flavours available.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/apples_and_bananas
O' course tha' doesn't get owt for nowt, but tha does get a bl**dy good
OS for the price o' a download if tha' chooses linux. Or, tha' could
spend far t'much and get summat proprietary.
Tha tek's tha choices.
Linux - provides choices.
Eeee la', but di'nt ye know tha' choice flumexes 'em sheep wi' nowt
oopstairs?
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K.
http://slated.org - Slated, Rated & Blogged
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| Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
16:10:36 up 6 days, 16:47, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.39, 0.47
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