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[ILUG] ``Got anything without so much Windows in it?''

[ILUG] ``Got anything without so much Windows in it?''

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions michele at blacknightsolutions.com
Wed Aug 4 10:20:16 IST 2004


> 
> And what about a mother not able to install an OS herself but
> keen on trying an alternative to viruses because she got so
> many viruses she got really fed up with it. Don't tell me it
> is not possible, my mother now runs Mandrake although she
> wouldn't know how to install it.
And I would be more than happy to give my mother a linux box to replace her
current Win 98 SE one.

This kind of elitist attitude is a very positive way of promoting OSS I must
say.
Why don't we just give everyone an IQ test before they are "allowed" to run
an OS?

Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101





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