[ILUG] open list abuse

[Simon Kenyon]

so what has this all got o do with top-posting?

On Friday 02 September 2005 00:18, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Simon Kenyon (simon at koala.ie):
> > > >  don't like microsoft.
> > >
> > > That's got nothing to do with using Linux.
> >
> > people who like linux rarely like microsoft.
> > well, outside this list that is usually true.
>
> Your implication that Linux holds appeal as a reaction against Microsoft
> Corporation, rather than as something desirable in itself, was tedious,
> insulting, and annoying.

for a lot of people that is exactly true

me, i've been using ms software since dos 3
i've been using unix a lot longer
and linux pretty much since the start

for me linux is an end in itself, not necessary a means
so i'm a sad bastard.

> Care to lose the grammar-school rhetoric and 
> try again,

> or would you rather be ignored? 

feel free to do so