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Subject: Re: [OT] Development Release: Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 1 [OT]

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:20:37 08/10/04

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On August 10, 2004 at 13:12:21, Tony Werten wrote:

>On August 10, 2004 at 12:14:32, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 10, 2004 at 09:55:57, Tony Werten wrote:
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>>>On August 10, 2004 at 09:01:11, James Swafford wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 10, 2004 at 05:12:57, Ernst Walet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If you're a man about this you would stop releasing tiger for that buggy
>>>>>platform altogether........
>>>>
>>>>Believing a product is superior and becoming a martyr for its cause
>>>>are two very different things.  Not supporting Windows would be
>>>>suicide for the Tiger project, and no one would win from it.
>>>>
>>>>It's kind of like freedom of religion.  I "know" my beliefs are
>>>>correct, but I have to respect your freedom to make the same
>>>>choice- I can't force you.  I can poke you once in a while and
>>>>try to get you to see things from my perspective, but I won't
>>>>resort to nailing the doors on your church shut to get you to
>>>>come to mine.
>>>
>>>Yes, but poking him about his church, while at the same time selling things he
>>>can use in his church seems a bit "unconvincing" :)
>>>
>>>Tony
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>>To the simple minded, yes.
>
>He, you're not being nasty to me, just because my word jokes don't hold very
>well on translation, are you ? ;)
>
>Tony



Trying to picture me as hypocrite or disturbed by saying that I am promoting the
merits of Linux at every occasion while I am selling a Windows version of Tiger
is typically the kind of argument a politician would love: no matter how wrong
and off the argument is, it looks seducing because it will talk to simple minded
people.

Hence the "simple minded" in my answer.

So I'm not nasty, I'm just telling you what I think about your argument. It's
the kind of argument that comes to mind at first thought. I just hope that you
are able to have the second thought that sends it where it belongs: to the trash
bin.



    Christophe




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