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Re: [News] What Will the Ultimate Linux Handheld Be?

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:11:57 +0100, Kier wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:10:15 -0700, flyer wrote:
> 
>> In article <pan.2007.08.12.14.24.52.419651@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:36:28 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>  
>>> > The day that Linux starts advertisting in this way is the day that I
>>> > will move to BSD or whatever. Linux is about freedom. Linux is about
>>> > a different way.
>>> > 
>>> > The day that Linux accepts nothing but binary drivers and does back
>>> > to school Tux ads is the day it becomes OS X. I don't want OS X. It
>>> > is just about as evil is Vista.
>>> 
>>> Operating systems cannot be 'evil'.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Here's from the oxford concise dictionary:
>> 
>> evil
>>        adjective
>> 
>> 1	extremely wicked and immoral. Øembodying or associated with the
>>        forces of the devil. **harmful or tending to harm.**
>> 
>> 2	**extremely unpleasant: an evil smell.**
>> 
>> 	noun great wickedness and depravity, especially when regarded as a
>>        supernatural force. **something harmful or undesirable: social
>>        evils.**
>> 
>> 
>> Looks like an OS can be evil indeed.
> 
> Not really, no. 

Let's hear you say that with a mimetic-metal Terminator on you ass.

> It's time we as advocates stopped using silly, hyperbolic
> language and actually addressed the real concerns there are out there.
> Yes, Windows has faults, some of them serious. We will not help our cause,
> or the image of Linux screaming 'Vista is evil!' to people who are just
> going to go, 'You're crazy' in return.

I know a lot of Windows users who would fully agree that Windows is "evil".


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