[OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

[Richmond]

On 05/11/2012 09:02 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> I love my morning cup of RICHMOND. Please don't ever change!!!

Bless you!  My cup brimmeth over.

>
> sqb
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
>
>> Richmond, I suggest altering the particular alcoholic beverage you've been
>> imbibing. ;-)
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On May 11, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Richmond wrote:
>>
>>> I have finally worked out why I think thinking people (!)
>>> prefer Mac OS or Windows:
>>>
>>> For the very same reason why buckets of people want to
>>> go back to the Communist state here in Bulgaria.
>>>
>>> Linux involves a vast number of choices:
>>>
>>> 1. Choices about Desktop environment; WIMP, HUD,
>> Nix-but-contextual-menus, Freaky, and so on.
>>> 2. Choices about how to access programs: Panels, AWN, Cairo Dock, etc.,
>> etc.,
>>> 3. Phil Lewer, Jan Brewer, Harry Hawkins, Hugh Davy   Philly Whitpot,
>> George Pausley, Dick Wilson, Tom Cobbley and all.
>>> And, for why do I find Linux delectable; mayhap because many years syne
>> (well 36 to be exact), I ate a delicious plate
>>> of rice-pudding in Widdecombe after 24 hours out on the tors of
>> Dartmoor. And, possibly the saddest thing of all, is that I suspect
>>> very few in the computer programming fraternity/sorority will even
>> understand the connexion between those remarks and point 3.
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 3 weeks ago I was standing in a shed with 2 lambs under my arms feeding
>> them from bottles (at Horton-in-Ribblesdale), and some
>>> wag (isn't there always one?) said to me "Why are you doing that?", to
>> which I replied "I care!" (frankly, the farmer had had about
>>> 105 Spring lambs; and he had dug them out of the snowdrifts; of which 50
>> of them had been saved by sheltering under their dead mothers' carcases),
>> to which, said wag had remarked "I thought you said you were a teacher and
>> a computer programmer." at which point I turned to the lambs and saw that
>> they were comfortable and full of milk. The fellow was an idiot.
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> The vast majority of people do NOT want choices; they want comfortable
>> predictableness.......
>>> However, awkward s*ds like me, believe that that is exactly what meant
>> that the Jews and so on, walked obediently into the
>>> gas ovens of Nazi Germany.
>>>
>>> Of course comparing the Virus-Hell of the most popular family of
>> computer operating systems on the planet
>>> with the Nazi holocaust elevates the former to a place it should not
>> enjoy, and degrades the latter to a position
>>> which diminishes it significance in a way which is hugely dangerous.
>>>
>>> -----------------------------
>>>
>>> While Linux may NOT turn everybody on Ding-an-Sich.....
>>>
>>> It is worth recalling what happened in Britain when, quite suddenly, the
>> Archimedes computer (running RISC OS)
>>> cut its own throat by getting into bed with Apple (remember the Xemplar
>> episode?), and everything changed, and
>>> those teachers who could not transition very quickly from RISC OS to
>> Windows 95 were in the sh*t.
>>> --------------------------
>>>
>>> What has this got to do with Runtime Revolution Livecode?
>>>
>>> Quite a lot.
>>>
>>> 1. The world does not change smoothly, nor predictably.
>>>
>>> 2. Richard Gaskin's recent posting anent Linux could not be more
>> apposite.
>>> 3. RunRev made a big mistake when it stopped releasing engines to allow
>> standalone builds for any systems apart from
>>> Mac, Windows and Linux.
>>>
>>> --------------------------
>>>
>>> Friday night rant as usual is for free. Love, Richmond.
>>>
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