[Hudlug] posting to Linux mail list (fwd)

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 22 December 2003 16:48, Ben Fowler wrote:
> I think that I have heard of this survey already.
>
> There are two things that Microsoft should
> consider focussing on over the next 5 to 7 years.
>
> i) An operating system that doesn't suck.
> ii) Open source software.
>
> In general, I worry if people who are not 'members'
> in the sense of not being part of our community
> wish to post; there have been several weirdos
> on the WYLUG list before now. But until they cause
> trouble I should have thought that it was OK to
> allow posting from subscribers...
>
It seems that other groups have had the same message.  This is from 
the Mandrake Expert list

<quote>
I set Konqueror not to send any kind of identification when I went to 
the link
to see what the "survey" was about. I just love the "DO NOT COPY THIS 
LINK"
flag in the URL. As well as the explicit permission to allow Microsoft 
to do
as they wish with any information provided. Do they think all 
GNU/Linux users
are that stupid?

Yes, that was a rhetorical question.

The day I acknowledge Microsoft having *any* rights to anything to do 
with the
bare fact of my existence, let alone what I use as an operating system 
or
why, will be the day that I ask someone to put me out of the world's 
misery.

To be blunt; if it ever happens someone shoot me. Please!

I trust anything Microsoft about as far as I can throw my ex-wife's 
minivan.
</quote>

Anne

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