Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:17:36 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 20:14:14, margolies,marc wrote:
>thank you,Cristophe!
>
>to albert: the 'american' part of the equation refers not to my obvious
>'grossness', which you appear to latch onto yourself, without regard to what you
>are. Grossness is apparently universal then. Rather the 'american' qualification
>is an expression of my awareness of the importance of IBM in the business world
>here versus that of SCO. My post was about a false impression where SCO does the
>kicking while IBM gets kicked. But IBM is what Americans call the provebial 800
>pound gorilla, as in the question, "Where does an 800 pound Gorilla sit? Answer:
>Whereever he wants!"
>That was the semiotics of my joke. Yet it is interesting, Albert, that it should
>make you think of YOUR grandmother. I don't see that as an efective attack on
>americans :)
Actually I was the one making the remark, and it is not important if I am
american or not (I'm not, but I think I would have made the same remark if I
was, at least I hope so).
That IBM is an american company or not is also not the point. It's rather a
matter of Linux attacked by some *irrelevant* *meaningless* *stupid* company,
and as far as I know Linux has no nationality (and I like it this way).
And yes, I am using Red Hat Linux (Red Hat is an american company), but I might
as well use Mandrake Linux (Mandrake is a french company) or SuSE Linux (SuSE is
a german company). Those 3 are the best Linux available.
Christophe
>
>
>On June 17, 2003 at 13:25:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On June 16, 2003 at 23:15:18, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On June 16, 2003 at 19:36:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 15, 2003 at 18:34:31, margolies,marc wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Bo ,
>>>>>I hope you're right. But as an American I tend to think that SCO asking IBM for
>>>>>'protection money' is rather akin to an 80 year-old woman trying to squeeze the
>>>>>nuts of an 800 pound gorilla ;>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I fail to see what being an american has to do with the very elegant comparison
>>>>above...
>>>>
>>>>As far as I know you do not have to be american to be able to be gross (I can do
>>>>that as well).
>>>
>>>Maybe, but Americans are grosser. Do you know of any 80-year-old French women
>>>doing what he described? Only an American 80-year-old would do such a thing. But
>>>that's nothing, you should hear what his grandfather did.
>>>
>>> Albert
>>
>>
>>
>>It's so refreshing to see that some americans still have a good sense of humour!
>>:)
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
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