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From: Igor Gueths <igueths@attbi.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:44:09 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206012243280.11684-100000@igueths> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001301c209d9$d0bb3c40$5067e9d5@microsoft.com>

Hi Teddy. I like Linux as a desktop. I use it every day and some days like
now, I don't even turn on my winblows laptop. Just goes to show you that
desktop functionality is indeed possible under Linux.

Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Here I agree 100%
> I also think Linux is better than Windows if it is used as a server.
> But as a desktop, ...
>
> Teddy,
> orasnita@home.ro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley@ec.rr.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
>
>
> > Teddy,
> > The statement that 40% of companies use Linux is as far as I know
> accurate.
> > This does not mean that they use it for all their users desktops, that
> > obviously is not the case.  M.S. has the desktop market fairly wrapped up.
> > They are however using Linux (and unix for that matter) based servers.
> > There are instances where Linux desktops are being used also though.
> > Industrial Light and Magic replaced their SGI workstations with Linux, as
> > did Jim Hinson's company (ya know, the muppets, kermit and company).
> > Apparently Linux makes one heck of a graphics editing platform.  In my
> > previous email I cited a couple major customers that IBM is converting
> over
> > to Linux.  This trend is accelerating.  Even M.S. realizes that Linux and
> > the opensource community is their biggest threat.
> >
> > Cecil
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E17DHWi-0003q4-00@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
 ` Thomas Ward
   ` Octavian Rasnita
     ` Cecil H. Whitley
       ` Octavian Rasnita
         ` Cecil H. Whitley
           ` Octavian Rasnita
             ` Igor Gueths [this message]
         ` Alex Snow
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Toby Fisher
       ` Adam Myrow
         ` Octavian Rasnita
           ` Cecil H. Whitley
             ` Octavian Rasnita
         ` Toby Fisher
           ` Linux viri Cecil H. Whitley
       ` Amazingly dumb remark about Linux Octavian Rasnita
   ` Alex Snow
 Thomas Ward
 ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Alex Snow
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Adam Myrow
 ` Toby Fisher
   ` Liz Hare
     ` Octavian Rasnita
       ` Erik Heil
         ` Alex Snow
         ` Octavian Rasnita
       ` Cecil H. Whitley
         ` Octavian Rasnita
           ` Alex Snow
             ` Octavian Rasnita
               ` Toby Fisher
         ` Patricia Logan
       ` jwantz
         ` Octavian Rasnita
 ` Ann Parsons
   ` Igor Gueths
     ` Toby Fisher
     ` Alex Snow
   ` Octavian Rasnita
     ` Alex Snow
 ` Octavian Rasnita
 ` Alex Snow
   ` Toby Fisher
     ` Alex Snow

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