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Article #55028Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
From: Eugene O'Neil
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <33f8b845.10607660@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, mulder78@ix.netcom.com wrote: >Wally Barnes wrote: > >>Simply put, Linux doesn't suffer from Bill Gates and his company. It suffers >>from people who find it better to complain about the lack of > support/development >>,when they should get up off their tails and do it themselves. > >What about people who are not programmers? SOL, huh? >(sol = shit out of luck) Yes, that's exactly right! If you are not a programmer, and you are not satisfied with the state of Linux, and you can't seem to convince any programmers to do anything about your problem, you are shit out of luck! I couldn't have put it better myself. I am sick of people who do nothing but complain about Linux. The only thing they contribute to is sales of antacid pills. They don't want to learn how to write any of the mindless point-and-click software they crave, and even if they did know they probably wouldn't have the patience for it, but they feel that the programmers somehow "owe" it to them. Well, guess what? We don't owe you anything. Our paychecks do not, by any strech of the imagination, depend on your satisfaction with Linux. If you don't like linux, and you don't have the time or skill to improve it yourself, and you wouldn't even consider paying somone to do it for you, you are free to leave at any time. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! -Eugene
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa64,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: eugene@cs.umb.edu (Eugene O'Neil) Subject: Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux Date: 1997/08/19 Message-ID: <5tcm0s$q41@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 267994862 References: <rgw-ya023080002907971402460001@newshost.unimelb.edu.au> <33EAC7FE.8D8D2C2C@syd.net.au> <slrn5uts20.ta3.mjr@laulujoutsen.pc.helsinki.fi> <4u7mdlwgn3.fsf@schroedinger.adelaide.maptek.com.au> <33f79556.22571665@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5t8d26$1gv$1@gail.ripco.com> <5t9n8f$5d$1@jake.esu.edu> <33f8b845.10607660@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: MORE Systems, inc. X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Aug 19 10:43:56 AM PDT 1997 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x