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It's 20 Aug 97  04:45,
We'll return to eugene@cs.umb.edu and All's
discussion of Suggestions please - Office for Linux

 >What about people who are not programmers? SOL, huh?
 >(sol = shit out of luck)

 eu> Yes, that's exactly right! If you are not a programmer, and you are
 eu> not  satisfied with the state of Linux, and you can't seem to convince
 eu> any  programmers to do anything about your problem, you are shit out of
 eu> luck!  I couldn't have put it better myself.

 eu> I am sick of people who do nothing but complain about Linux. The only
 eu> thing they  contribute to is sales of antacid pills. They don't want to
 eu> learn how to write  any of the mindless point-and-click software they
 eu> crave, and even if they did  know they probably wouldn't have the
 eu> patience for it, but they feel that the  programmers somehow "owe" it
 eu> to them.

Unfortunately, you're always going to get that attitude. :-(  I'm happy
with Linux.  It's made my old 386 _useful_ as a router (which has saved
a lot of $$$ in phone charges by holding the link up when one of the GUI
boxes dies :) ).  I'm not a programmer myself, just someone who likes to
turn and tweak programmers' handiwork into useful systems.  Linux allows
a lot of this, if you're prepared to get dirty with a text editor and
compiler (in case a source hack is needed :) ).

Wish I did have more time to dabble in C, but not to worry. :)

 eu> Well, guess what? We don't owe you anything. Our paychecks do not, by
 eu> any strech  of the imagination, depend on your satisfaction with Linux.
 eu> If you don't like  linux, and you don't have the time or skill to
 eu> improve it yourself, and you  wouldn't even consider paying somone to
 eu> do it for you, you are free to leave at  any time. Don't let the door
 eu> hit you in the ass on the way out!

:-)

I don't understand some attitudes.  IMHO, for a free OS, Linux exceeded
my expectations from day one.  I'll be running it for a long while yet.
(also considering comandeering an obsolete box at work for an Intranet
server running Linux :) ).

... Oxymoron: Faulty Logic
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