[OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

[Bob Sneidar]

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.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> Friday night rant as usual is for free. Love, Richmond.
> 
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