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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That “Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated” bit is a tad worrying because I do wonder whether someone who equates case size with capability should be put in charge of a Linux system.

LOL!

Man calls Wal-Mart:

Hey, I bought a computer from you guys and there are no Windows on it.
Yes, sir, that's correct. It has Linux.
Lin, what?
Linux.
What in the sam hell is that?
It's an open operating system that is free.
So if it's free that must mean it sucks.
No sir, it does everything Windows does only better.
But you said it was Open Windows. Doesn't that allow viruses to come in?
Um, no sir. That means that people all over the world wrote the software to make your computer go.
You mean even them I-ranians and Russkies?
Well, I assume so sir.
Well, hell's bells! Screw that! I want a refund!

101 posted on 11/13/2007 2:39:19 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

All that’s missing is the defensive preamble about how he’s such a computer expert and has been using these things for years and don’t you try to snow me and on and on.
My first tech job, way back when, was in a retail store. We had legions of these people troop through the place. I put up with it until I had sufficient cred to get a real job, then I fled. :-)


111 posted on 11/13/2007 4:27:10 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

LOL!


129 posted on 11/13/2007 6:07:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

You forgot the part where the customer says “Linux is by them A-rabs” and “Linux is al-Qaeda”. :-p


181 posted on 11/16/2007 8:14:43 PM PST by bigdcaldavis ("Screw Kahlifornia. Gimme Kolinahr." - Me)
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