[ILUG] Hypocrisy?

[John Allen]

On Sunday 18 January 2004 13:43, Alan wrote:
> So who can not read, on the www.linuxmall.com  there is at least three
> places that you can find contact detail, The person operating this business
> JMC software is a person with a registered trading name. The telephone

I know that already, checked www.cro.ie, I still however don;t know who that 
person is, or where the business is located.

> number is on the front page.
> in the contact us section and in the wholesale section.

Ok, I see the phone number on the front page of www.linuxmall.com, but I don't 
see a persons name, or an address; if they are indeed there, a reference 
please.

>
> As for the other site that you referred to, yes it is exactly the same as
> www.thelinuxmall.com but is not finished. The site belongs to my company
> Take Stock Security which is a registered trading name of Take Stock
> Limited.
> So I would suggest that you visit http://www.cro.ie/search and do a little
> search, instead of making ridiculous unfounded remarks.
>
> When I referred to a lot of hard work going into the site. this referred
> more to the business. the underlying structure of the site was developed
> over 5 years ago.

This hard work has absolutely nothing to do with the choice of hosting OS 
though surely.

> So which came first "the chicken or the egg"

I don't ****ing know, but for some bizarre reason you seem to think *I* 
should.

>
> Alan Moyne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> John Allen
> Sent: 18 January 2004 13:20
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [ILUG] Hypocrisy?
>
> On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:54, Alan wrote:
> > Ok, I have to agree.  I think that everyone should just get on with there
> > own business and leave others alone,  so if the fact that this site is on
> > windows hosting is a problem then maybe you should have a go at setting
> > up and operating one on Linux. Do you think that this was easy. "IF YOU
> > BUILD IT THEY WILL COME" not likely. A lot of hard work has been put into
> > this site and more into the infrastructure of the business.
>
> So a lot of hard work was put into this site!, but a Windows 2000 host was
> chosen, presumably before the site development began.
>
> > I am sorry that anything that I do is offensive to a small and
> > insignificant few. BUT GET OVER IT.
> > consideration has been given to moving to Linux but at the moment it is
> > at the bottom of a very long list.
>
> Strange, this site looks very very similar to www.thelinuxmall.com,
> apparently
> a Linux reseller, but using Windows 2000 to host their website.
>
> Both sites only refer to their "Business Name", not an actual registered
> company, or individual trading as. Neither of these sites provide actual
> physical contact details, in the form of an address, or telephone number.
>
> I would not buy from them even if they did use Linux for hosting.
>
> > Alan Moyne
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> > pbm
> > Sent: 18 January 2004 11:30
> > To: Ilug
> > Subject: Fwd: Re: [ILUG] Hypocrisy?
> >
> > John Allen, Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:58:07AM +0000:
> > > What if their hosting company supported both Linux/Unix & Windows, but
> > > the unnamed Linux reseller still opted for Windows?
> >
> > no excuse, then.
> > ah, I have plenty of horror stories about this. People choosing hosting
> > on windows "because I have windows on my PC, not Linux"...
> > ok, going ot as usual. anyway, I think ignorance is the first thing to
> > smash, even before hypocrisy...
> >
> > p.
> > --
> > pbm - "going 'thru something, but I don't know what it is
> >     -  I don't feel like an adult, I don't look like a kid"
> > --
> > Irish Linux Users' Group
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>
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> John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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