Re: "If there's a key learning for us, we can't have free software..."

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From: Richard Savage
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"Dingbat" <not.a.real@address.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 11:14:10 +1300, "Adam Warner"
> <usenet@consulting.net.nz> wrote:
>
> >Said Steve Ballmer at Microsoft' shareholder meeting:
> >
> >   If there's a key learning for us, we can't have free software, it's
> >   kind of inconsistent with the goals of most people in the room.
>
> "a key learning"??? wtf kind of English is that? Yokel-speeek?

Try using www.dictionary.com

learn�ing (l�rnng)
n.
1. The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.
2. Knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study. See Synonyms at
knowledge.
3. Psychology. Behavioral modification especially through experience or
conditioning.

I think he meant the usage as in definition 2.

RtB.

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