one thing i find anoying is

[Michael M.]

Brendon wrote:
> that the open source market is becoming so popular and so wide spread these
> days,  that it makes me think why some the major players in the compter
> idustry, and some of the major isps  are not supporting os's like linux.  
> i have had the problem when ringing up a help desk and been asked , what
> operating system are you using and get the reply "im sorry we don't support
> linux only microsoft and mac"  which in some way has been confussed as the
> mac is, is sort of linux based.
>   I  don't know howmany of you people  feel but i for one have been taking
> a stand an promoting linux and esp ubuntu  big time,  there are mant
> companies in the small town that have switched to linux and haven't looked
> back.  So I say lets take a stand and start promoting linux, and start
> giving the compition a run for there money.
>
>   
It will never happen. Linux is dangerous and subversive and needs to be 
stopped. Tristan at ShellytheRepublican.com tells it like is!:

http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/linux-european-threat-to-our-computers.html

Quote:

"And guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?

"If you guessed it was Linux you would be 100% right. Osama uses Linux 
because he knows designed to counterfit DVDs, curcumventing the Digital 
Millenium Copyright Act, and defraud companies like Disney.

"Next time somebody asks you how Al Queda agents pay for their rifles 
and rocket launchers, you can tell them that foreign hackers make 
software called Linux which helps them steal from Americans."

-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson