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Alias wrote:
> Death wrote:
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:26:08 +0200, Alias
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:26:55 +0200, Alias
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MS and HP want you to buy a new printer. Do yourself a favor and use
>>>>>>> Ubuntu. It's free and has no problems with HP printers. All you need to
>>>>>>> do is connect the printer to your computer and Ubuntu will automagically
>>>>>>> install the drivers. Check it out at http://www.ubuntu.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What utter drivel. As I had previously noted Ubuntu doesn't have a
>>>>>> clue when it comes to the more modern Canon printers.
>>>>> Wrong. Canon has decided not to supply the drives. That is Canon's
>>>>> fault, not Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying that Ubuntu, a Linux company and devotee of the
>>>> open-source philosophy is now willing to including preparatory Canon
>>>> driver code? sort of a rat leaving a sinking ship sort of philosophy,
>>>> wouldn't you say? And Canon turned them down, wouldn't giver them the
>>>> proprietary code either?
>>>>
>>>> That really says something about what Canon thinks of the future of
>>>> Ubuntu, doesn't it. that one of the larger printer manufacturers
>>>> doesn't want to be associated with this fast moving, dynamic, software
>>>> house.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John B. Slocomb
>>>> (johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
>>>
>>> Grasping straws again, eh? It's still Canon's fault, no matter how you
>>> try to spin it to bolster your ill informed opinion about Ubuntu.
>>>
>>
>> Alias' philosophy...everything should be free except for what little I
>> do
>>
>
> So, does this mean you want to pay for the air you breath or you'll get
> a complex that people might think you're Open Source? How about sex? Do
> you pay for that, whether you do it all by yourself or with others?
>
Software is not air.
Everyone pays for sex... be it cash, dinner and a movie, or a lifetime
commitment to a non-relative.
I don't think you can have sex by yourself, I'll have to leave that to
your expert opinion.
--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.
> Death wrote:
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:26:08 +0200, Alias
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> John B. Slocomb wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:26:55 +0200, Alias
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MS and HP want you to buy a new printer. Do yourself a favor and use
>>>>>>> Ubuntu. It's free and has no problems with HP printers. All you need to
>>>>>>> do is connect the printer to your computer and Ubuntu will automagically
>>>>>>> install the drivers. Check it out at http://www.ubuntu.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What utter drivel. As I had previously noted Ubuntu doesn't have a
>>>>>> clue when it comes to the more modern Canon printers.
>>>>> Wrong. Canon has decided not to supply the drives. That is Canon's
>>>>> fault, not Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying that Ubuntu, a Linux company and devotee of the
>>>> open-source philosophy is now willing to including preparatory Canon
>>>> driver code? sort of a rat leaving a sinking ship sort of philosophy,
>>>> wouldn't you say? And Canon turned them down, wouldn't giver them the
>>>> proprietary code either?
>>>>
>>>> That really says something about what Canon thinks of the future of
>>>> Ubuntu, doesn't it. that one of the larger printer manufacturers
>>>> doesn't want to be associated with this fast moving, dynamic, software
>>>> house.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John B. Slocomb
>>>> (johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
>>>
>>> Grasping straws again, eh? It's still Canon's fault, no matter how you
>>> try to spin it to bolster your ill informed opinion about Ubuntu.
>>>
>>
>> Alias' philosophy...everything should be free except for what little I
>> do
>>
>
> So, does this mean you want to pay for the air you breath or you'll get
> a complex that people might think you're Open Source? How about sex? Do
> you pay for that, whether you do it all by yourself or with others?
>
Software is not air.
Everyone pays for sex... be it cash, dinner and a movie, or a lifetime
commitment to a non-relative.
I don't think you can have sex by yourself, I'll have to leave that to
your expert opinion.
--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.