[lug] a belly laugh from Windows magazine

[Jeff Francis]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:12:16AM -0700, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> Isn't one symptom of neurosis doing the same thing again and again
> and expecting different results each time?

  No, that's the way you win an election in Florida.  It's called an
Algore-rhythm. ;^)



> One waits and waits, expecting MS to
> fix a problem this time, though they have never fixed it in the past.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Calvin Dodge [mailto:caldodge at fpcc.net]
> > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:04 AM
> > To: Boulder Linux Users' Group
> > Subject: [lug] a belly laugh from Windows magazine
> > 
> > 
> > I got an unintentional chuckle upon reading Windows 
> > Magazine's "Best and Worst
> > of 2000" list - specifically their take on Linux
> > (http://www.winmag.com/specreps/feats/2000/lookback/05.htm).  
> > Would you care to
> > guess their opinion of Linux?  They love it - NOT!
> >  
> > But the belly laugh was provided by the following line on that page:
> > 
> > > If Microsoft fails to respond to specific bugs in a timely 
> > fashion, the best way to
> > > solve that is not to desert it for another product, but to 
> > keep a firm and resolute
> > > pressure on it until it does so.
> > 
> > In other words, keep waiting (and waiting and waiting) for 
> > Microsoft to fix the
> > product, and if they don't ... well ... you can always find 
> > another line of
> > business (like the Speed Ferret folks, who hit a brick wall 
> > in trying to adapt
> > their product to Access 2000).
> > 
> > (Even my boss laughed - derisively - at that quote, and he 
> > makes a living
> > selling software which works only with Microsoft Office)
> > 
> > Calvin
> > --
> > Calvin Dodge
> > Certified Linux Bigot (tm)
> > http://www.caldodge.fpcc.net
> > 
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