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Posted on 09/29/2006 8:45:47 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
GE dont complain you helped to make him a Linux user..
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As usual you're wrong. Read #12. It's as if in his speech he said "We have a new vista ahead of us" and you thought he was talking about a Microsoft product.
No, but he does lines........................snort........
At least Apple is American, unlike your Linux and Ubuntu.
I dunno but I do know this: He doesn't do Hillary.
So? What's your point?
Does it really matter where it comes from, so long as it's the best product for the job?
Look. I don't give a darn where my OS comes from. As long it does what I need it to do and does the best job--that's all I care about. That's the primary criterion that should be used when buying ANY product. Next comes price--is it the best bang for my buck?
Of course, if I have two equally useful products that are the same price--but only one is made in the USA, of course then I'll buy American.
But I'm not going to go out of my way and use Apple or M$ just because their products are developed by American companies.
If they do the best job and they're the best bang for my buck, then so much the better.
Linux meets those two criteria--and it's hard to beat. Not to mention that my distribution is developed in large part by Novell, which BTW is based in Waltham, Mass.
Redhat is apple American..
And how many pieces of software that ship with OS X are either foreign or GPL? Oops.
I know, that's the point, you'd run Bin Ladinix if you thought it was the best. And never even bat an eye.
Oops nothing. I know you love foreign and GPL stuff, but American versions of Unix use little of either, they are original, not cheap foreign or leftist clones.
Actually I love good stuff, whether it's American, foreign and/or GPL. And I'm still trying to figure out how a piece of software can be inherently leftist.
Since he likes Smallball, maybe he said, U Bunt U win?
Pray for W and Our Troops
Somehow, I doubt Bin Ladinix would exist.
Unless of course you define Bin Ladinix as any computer software not 100% originating in the US.
Which can't be said for anything, because even Apple, IBM, and M$ all either directly employ or use the products of programmers, engineers, and developers overseas.
So, save for a few pieces of open-source software, there is nothing that is 100% developed and made in America. Not even Windows.
Thus by your warped definition of what constitutes "right software" and "American software" even M$ Windows and Mac OS X are foreign.
But if it did, it could become your favorite, as you've admitted here and previously. You have no prejudices against any software, so long as it suits your purposes is all you care about, you'd turn absolutely nothing down on principle, and are obviously proud of that fact. You try to justify that by referring to Microsoft as "M$", as if something is wrong with an American company selling software, instead of giving it away for free like this foreign Ubuntu. I know you don't like your position being so starkly defined, but that is it, based on your very words right here and on other posts. And it leaves you in a pathetically poor position to criticize me, a man of principle, and one who supports American businesses over foreign clones of their products.
Hmmm... I seem to recall a little birdie squawking and complaining about Linux being "American" software that the ChiComs were getting for free. And now, lo and behold, it's not American. The little birdie seems to know quite a few catchy tunes!
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