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Does Clinton do Linux?
Guardian ^ | September 28 2006 | Bobbie Johnson

Posted on 09/29/2006 8:45:47 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

When Bill Clinton made his speech to the Labour Party conference, he bamboozled a few by finishing with the word "Ubuntu".

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
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To: N3WBI3

That's only one version of BSD, the one your buddy antiRepublican was referencing. You two must really like that one. Not surprising they got their funding pulled by the DoD, just like they should have.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895998/posts


281 posted on 10/05/2006 7:46:19 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Petronski
Can you imagine if he had been assigned to shill on digg.com?

Why, because of all the leftists there? You want to meet there or something?

282 posted on 10/05/2006 7:47:54 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle

No, what I've said is that I'm not going to use the country of origin as the primary factor in determining whether the product is going to be best for me.

What I've said is that if I have a choice between an American made and a non-American product and assuming everything else is equal, then of course I'll pick the American-made product.

The biggest factors for me are the quality of the product or service it provides with respect to my needs and the price of said product or service. Or in laymen's terms, I want the best product that does what I need at the lowest price.

If the product isn't the best choice for one's needs, where that product was developed and made is absolutely irrelevant.

Got it?


283 posted on 10/05/2006 7:48:37 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

No point in arguing facts with him, they seem to give him a rash.


284 posted on 10/05/2006 7:51:41 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Golden Eagle
So you now condemn FreeBSD and the license it is released under? BTW the co-founder of FreeBSD is doing work for guess who.... Apple..
285 posted on 10/05/2006 7:53:00 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Petronski

You've got mail...


286 posted on 10/05/2006 7:55:41 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Quit trying to cover it up. You said on this very thread, the American product would have to be "equally useful" before you would even consider it. Not like you haven't admitted this before either. Why are you always running away from your position? Either you believe it or you don't. And I don't think you're old enough to know, you sure don't know these subjects.
287 posted on 10/05/2006 7:56:17 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I read your message. You're right!

Check my reply.


288 posted on 10/05/2006 7:57:17 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Golden Eagle
So to you "equally useful" and "all things being equal" are somehow different? they would have to be for you to consider the second a cover-up for the first..
289 posted on 10/05/2006 7:57:29 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

LOL


290 posted on 10/05/2006 7:57:58 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Petronski

And he insults my understanding of the english language..


291 posted on 10/05/2006 7:58:54 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Mail was spot on rze..


292 posted on 10/05/2006 7:59:17 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Yet you wave it around like it's a bloody shirt...

If that's a tangential snipe at Jassa Jackson, I applaud your sense of humor.

293 posted on 10/05/2006 7:59:58 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Golden Eagle

"You said on this very thread, the American product would have to be "equally useful" before you would even consider it."

No kidding. I've said this a countless number of times. Is it finally beginning to sink in?

"Why are you always running away from your position? Either you believe it or you don't. And I don't think you're old enough to know, you sure don't know these subjects."

Any schmoe reading this thread can see that I've held a constant position and even went beyond plain English in explaining to you how I determine how well a product fits my needs. I even laid out my entire thought process in simple steps even my grandmother (who, btw, barely knows what a computer is) could understand.

Sheesh.


294 posted on 10/05/2006 8:01:37 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: N3WBI3

Open BSD. Remember? You and the antiRepublican brought it up. Here's the link again about their funding getting pulled by DoD for anti-war comments and trustworthiness concerns.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895998/posts

No, I don't care for them.


295 posted on 10/05/2006 8:01:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Will you condemn them and anyone using the license they use as adamantly as you do the GPL?
296 posted on 10/05/2006 8:05:27 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: N3WBI3

At least he hasn't invited you to a Foleyesque rendez-vous at digg.com...


297 posted on 10/05/2006 8:08:07 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Any schmoe reading this thread can see that I've held a constant position

LOL who are you arguing with? As I've only said a dozen times myself, all you've done is post endlessly and repeatedly that you don't care if the products you purchase and use come from the US or not, you will always without fail chose what you consider is the most useful product, and will never ever choose an American product by choice, unless all other possibly conceivable things are equal. Why do you keep repeating yourself?

298 posted on 10/05/2006 8:09:08 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Petronski
At least he hasn't invited you to a Foleyesque rendez-vous at digg.com...

I don't go there. You brought it up.

299 posted on 10/05/2006 8:10:44 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Trying to claim the "B" in "BSD" somehow means "South Africa"

Huh? B stands for Berkeley. South Africa comes into the picture because one of them is or has been behind two separate BSD forks.

300 posted on 10/05/2006 8:11:11 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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