Chris wrote:

Unfortunately, all the hirsute people who smell funny now gather
together electronically and bother the rest of us, much like another
Microsoft experiment involving a paper-clip.


You got that wrong too. I am not hirsute, shower regularly and
couldn't care less to talk to an incompetent person like you about
computers.

Didn't say you were hairy. If you knew much about set theory, or even logic,
you'd see that the set I mentioned was not complete. In other words the set
of hairy people is not identical with the set of Linux users. As for
competence, you may be right. I teach computing science at the university
level and we academics have a well-deserved reputation for not living in the
real world. But I only teach part-time, some maybe you'll cut me some slack.


I was helping the OP when you began your venomous pro-Windows spew,
remember? No, you won't.

I didn't start it. Someone - it may have been you - began touting the
superiority of Linux when the original subject had nothing to do with Ubuntu
or some other incarnation of Linux. Many Linux users are like that -
proposing Linux as better than fish. "I use Windows." (get Linux!). "I need
an AV program for XP." (get Linux). "I have a flat!" (get Linux). "Isn't it
a shame about famine in Sudan?" (get Linux). "I have giant festering,
fungating boils all over my body. My dog, too!" (get Linux).

As for helping people way back when, I was employed as a programmer in 1964
and have been doing computer work since. You young whippersnappers just
don't get it.


In case you worry, I am not trying to convert you to Linux, honest.
Stay with Windows, someone has to pay the sucker price for software,
and that someone is you.

I own a software company. I develop software for a living. I expect to get
paid for it and I don't mind paying someone else for their efforts. Folks
who base their evaluation of a product or service entirely on price are
probably equally happy with a blow-up doll.

I also own a bag full of Microsoft stock, but that in no way influences my
opinion. No sir.