Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 04:44 \__
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>> Advice To Linux: Kill The Penguin
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>> | Products associated with Microsoft may carry more boring monikers,
>> | but at least they're descriptive.
>> `----
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>> Oh, really? Excel? Outlook? Clippy? And that talking "Find" dog (not Bob)?
>>
>> And "cuteness", as he calls it, sure worked fine for Google.
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> I realised I had forgotten the link.
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> http://www.crn.com/nl/voices/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=192501076
But he made a lot of valid points which you fail to acknowledge. Why
cant hardcore Linux users just accept that too much of Linux is too
clever for its own good : "in jokes" for names of major applications are
all well & good in hobbyist land - but in the real world, well, ... its
blindingly obvious why its not.
Here's a logo for Roy'n'MarkToy.
http://www.trendypuppy.com/dog-gifts/2442B.jpg
I believe they used Linux to to do the index. Latex.
--
Achilles' Biological Findings:
(1) If a child looks like his father, that's heredity. If he
looks like a neighbor, that's environment.
(2) A lot of time has been wasted arguing over what came first
-- the chicken or the egg. It was undoubtedly the
rooster.
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