[TriLUG] Fwd: [linux-elitists] Vista Launch

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 16:24:09 EST 2007


Vista won't will fail, at least not at the monster-size companies like the
one where I haunt the halls.  They'll force-feed it, slap it on
life-support, hit it with the defib paddles each time it keels over, throw
ungodly sums of money at it then rejoice in a job well done.

Sad but true.

Greg

On 1/25/07, jason at monsterjam.org <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
>
> hey, I love using linux twice as much as the next guy. I just thought the
> cartoon was somewhat on topic. Id love for companies to try to migrate to
> vista and fail miserably in the process. Is that gonna happen? time will
> tell. I guess im not much of a linux evangelist. Ill argue the virtues of
> running oss to anyone who asks. I just dont think that
> these kinds of events where people give out CDs are worth it. When people
> are ready for an alternative to winblows, they will seek us out.
>
> regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007
> at 11:08:33AM -0500, Tanner
> Lovelace wrote:
> > Ok, I know today's dilbert (link that will still be good tomorrow is
> > http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070125.html )
> > mentions Linux, but personally, I don't think it mentions it in a
> > very good light.  So I have to ask here, Jason, what are you trying
> > to say?  Because from what it looks like from here is that you've
> > lost your way and ended up on the wrong list.  But, that doesn't
> > make sense, so can you please elaborate.  Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> > On 1/25/07, jason at monsterjam.org <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> > >http://dilbert.com/
> > >
> > >Jason
> > >
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