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Charles Finley wrote:

> I suspect that in those (UNIX and Linux) commodity markets you don't
> complain you simply take your business elsewhere.  It would not surprise me
> if most of the people who use those platforms exclusively and have never
> been exposed to our type of users group cannot even relate to what we are
> complaining about here.  I suspect that they have different expectations
> from the computer manufacturer vendors that "we" do. Is there a Dell user's
> group?
>
> Some of us are complaining about what I interpret as unmet expectations.
> Where did those expectations come from?  Maybe they (these UNIX/Linux users)
> have never seen what we saw in the past and therefore have no foundation on
> which to base a complaint and no reference point on which to relate
> something better.

Seems to me that the Linux community just has a different set of things to be
passionate about. 8^)

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Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

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