When Open Source Meets Closed Minds

[Leon Goldstein]

Kurt Wall wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hunley" <doug at hunley.homeip.net>
> To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:50 AM
> Subject: Fwd: When Open Source Meets Closed Minds
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Esther Filderman <mizmoose at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 16:41
>> Subject: When Open Source Meets Closed Minds
>>
>>
>>
>> The funny thing about this is, I wonder if the poster realizes how
>> often FOSS people run into this!
>>
>> http://notalwaysright.com/when-open-source-meets-closed-minds/3305
>>
>>
>> (Also, I want to run Deviant Linux. That is all.)
>
>
> Find out that person's address and have them, um, neutralized.
> No one that stupid or gullible deserves to live.
>
I have a foggy recollection of a similar excuse offered when a school system requested a big budget allocation to upgrade their computer system's Windoughs. Someone proposed switching to Linux and the rebuttal to that idea was along the same lines.

Disclaimer: relying on old fart memory; about as reliable as Windoughs on an e Machine. 

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

Powered by Libranet 3.0 Debian Linux
System G2