On Thu 21 Jun 2007, Rory Byrne wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:55:43PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > There are at least a few list members who have no use for windows and
> > > use some flavour of Unix.
> >
> > Sigh.
> > It is perfectly possible to use Unix,
> > and at the same time keep a Windows partition for purely pragmatic
> > reasons.
>> Tim, I'm afraid you're off mark here. Please re-read what Paul said.
> It's perfectly fine that you have a dependency on Windows.
This is like saying I'm dependent on corn-plasters
because I keep them in the bath-room in case I cut myself.
Or I'm dependent on car-jacks because I keep one in the boot.
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