[wellylug] Asus is anti-linux?

[Jamie Dobbs]

Jamie Baddeley wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 22:32, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
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>>[opinion] I still maintain that until Linux loses the 'hippy' image it 
>>can't be expected to be taken seriously. [/opinion]
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>>(hippy image equates to wanting everything for nothing, and believing 
>>that it is your right to have access to things that others have spent a 
>>lot of money in developing and you have no real right to)
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>>[/me dons his flame proof suit and skulks out of the building]
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>Dude, you have one strange view of the world:
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>As for not being taken seriously:
>http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/
>http://www.novell.com/linux/
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1240626.stm
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Point taken, perhaps these companies would like to reinvest some of 
their corporate profits into developing the relevant hardware drivers 
for the 'broken' Asus motherboards. Oh wait that's right these are 
companies that are trying to save themselves but adopting Linux to try 
and beat off the competition from Microsoft and they probably don't have 
a huge amount (or possibly any) profits to spend yet. Perhaps they will 
one day.

>Regarding your view on what a hippy is:
>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hippy
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My 'view' on hippy was backed with _my_ definition of hippy which I 
still stick by in this particular situation. There are a huge number of 
Linux users who want everything for nothing - perhaps this is more 
Communist than hippy. I mearly used the word hippy and my definition of 
in in this situation for illustrative purposes.

>Some advice, If you're going to troll, at least get your facts straight.
>Otherwise you just look stupid.
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Facts are always open to interpretation, I mearly interpreted the 
'facts' differently in this situation than you did, this does not 
necessarily make me  wrong. I still maintain that the original article 
referenced is laughable and written by a nuch of whingers that want 
everything for nothing.