[olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open Source

[Thom Harrison]

You don't have to start a technical career to dislike M$.
Any average user can tell you about the blue screen of death.

Thom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lassek" <hayai2 at cox.net>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: RE: [olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open Source


> You know what? I have heard someone say that _every_single_time_
> Microsoft releases a new iteration of Windows. And every time it's just
> same old, same old. I'm just going to wait until The Morning After and
> make up my mind then. I'm not expecting to be pleasantly surprised.
>
> I already sound like a jaded unix geek and I havn't even technically
> begun my career yet. Not a good sign ;)
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 08:03, Trent Melcher wrote:
> > Yes I believe your right, If you are a MS customer you probably have
paid
> > for it a couple times over.
> >
> > I was actually impressed with the new OS, granted MS did put on the
show, so
> > yes they are going to toot their horn about there product.  But, IMHO I
> > think they have finally had a wake up call and a real kick in the ass to
put
> > a product out there that is worth something, I mean the benchmarks they
> > showed (again their stats so take it as you will) were so out there,
what
> > did they do throw all their current OS's out the window and do a total
> > rewrite?
> >
> > It has tempted me a little to load it up and check it out.
> >
> > Trent
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
> > IrishMASMS
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:18 PM
> > To: tmelcher at trilogytel.com
> > Cc: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: RE: [olug] How One Microsoft User Made The Switch To Open
> > Source
> >
> >
> >
> > <quote who="Trent Melcher">
> > > ????  Your company had to pay for the W2K3 event today ????  My wife
and
> > > I both went and we nor our companies paid a dime.  Our were you
meaning
> > > they paid for it by giving you the time off to go?
> > >
> > > Trent
> >
> > True/yes - they gave me the time to go. No one I know of had to outright
> > pay M$ to attend their marketing blitz....
> >
> > But, did we not all pay for it? Don't we all???? ;)
> >
> > --
> > A: No.
> > Q: Should I include e-mail quotations after my reply?
> > =====================================================
> > An often repeated quote on news.admin.net-abuse.email - <I>"Spam is not
> > about content, it is about consent".</I>
> >
> >
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