<font size="2"><strong>Is this the right room for an argument</strong>?</font><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Lattimer</b> <<a href="mailto:karl@qdh.org.uk">karl@qdh.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:45 +0000, J D Freeman wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1
<br>><br>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:39:48PM +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:<br>> > True.<br>> ><br>> > But let me just say this, until I can see work from you that compares to<br>> > apple or redhat for that matter, don't dis them. You have no right.
<br>> > Their work is impeccable and you may want to reconsider before slating<br>> > something that is pretty damn cool!<br>><br>> Please, step back, read this, then add debian instead of apple or<br>> redhat. I am not saying their work is crap. I am not saying it doesn't
<br>> have a place, I am just saying I CHOOSE not to use it. That simple. I<br>> beleive the slagging people off was you (comments about 4 people in a<br>> shed?)<br><br>May I return you to;<br><br>1) 1 mouse button
<br>2) Track pad rather than nipple<br>3) to big<br>4) designed to run MacOS X, which I don't like<br>5) built more for eye candy than use IMHO<br>6) White - WHY GOD WHY? Black is much nicer :p<br>7) There was a 7th reason then the phone rang and I can't remember what
<br>I was going to write.<br>8) Saying anything against a mac makes my housemate squirm.<br><br>Hmm, nuff said.<br><br><br>> > Still sitting on a news group somewhere entitled GPL Minix clone I'd<br>> > expect.
<br>><br>> Simply saying that is to deny that there has been anything good to come<br>> out of debian. Whilst I acknowledge freely that apple and redhat have<br>> done good work. Debian has too, and you shouldn't discard them so off
<br>> handedly.<br><br>I never said nothing good came out of debian, look at ubuntu, debian<br>done properly.<br><br>My point is, that apple and redhat have been the major players in making<br>linux what it is. Along with IBM, HP and surprisingly DELL. Linux would
<br>still be here without debian, it wouldn't without redhat.<br><br>K,<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kent mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk
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