<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>XKCD summarises it all again :-)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>http://xkcd.com/963/<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Avinash Meetoo <avinash@noulakaz.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss@lugm.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 7 October 2011, 7:33<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [lugm.org] Linux on the desktop got a long way to go<br></font><br><div id="yiv1432696409">On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 20:35, selven <span
dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pcthegreat@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pcthegreat@gmail.com">pcthegreat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="yiv1432696409gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1432696409gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
:) so yes :p whatever is being done microsoft will copy whatever innovation people with good faith creates and then make money out of it. </blockquote><div><br>To be fair, we have to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2006/04/28/thanks-microsoft-for-cheap-pcs/">Thank Microsoft... for cheap PCs</a> (as I wrote five years ago).<br>
</div></div><br>We're fortunate that we, geeks, have so many choices now (Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, etc.) It's unfortunate that the layman only has Windows, arguably the less "Bicycle for the Mind" one (this is from Steve Jobs).<br>
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