Hewlet Packard and Linux

Charles Hallenbeck chuckh at mhonline.net
Sat Aug 25 06:57:17 EDT 2001


I know it is a waste of precious bandwidth to just say "Me too!" but I
would like to endorse Rodney's view -

Me too!

Chuck

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote:

> Could not agree with you more.  In the real world there are mechanics who
> love the joy of building a fine running engine and getting under the hood
> to fine tune it.  Then there are most people who could care less what's
> under the hood as long as it's pretty, it runs and gets them from point a
> to point b.  Likewise with Linux.  There are those who love to write
> software without restraints and those who love to configure that software
> to their style and taste.  That's the beauty of Linux and the thousands of
> text based programs.  Yes every text based program has to be learned and
> configured but that's the fun of it.  A blind person can configure Linux
> however he pleases and yes it's a greasy job but at least we'll know how
> to make it run like we want it and not like somebody else tells us how it
> should be.
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