From: Baron on
Hadron Inscribed thus:

> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:39:07 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7
>>>>>> says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving
>>>>>>> Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snigger>
>>>>>> Linux - free if your time is worthless.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market
>>>>>> share in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no
>>>>> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised
>>>>> and free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that
>>>>> infests new PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that
>>>>> comes with their PC and to install things like Avast and
>>>>> OpenOffice.
>>>>
>>>> Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their
>>>> existing documents?
>>>
>>> What documents would that be, Hadron Snot Quark?
>>
>> Ask him to email you one that won't work to prove it.
>>
>> A friend often emails me Excel and Word 2007 documents which work
>> fine with OO 3.0 and he can read my documents OK (saved as .XLS or
>> .DOC, of course).
>>
>> Bye-bye (again).
>
> You're both in denial and both obviously do NOT use OO or MSO since
> anyone that does knows that as soon as you start any half decent
> formatting then OO falls over. Its been proven time and time again and
> I dont intend to post the same links over and over again

Another twatty remark without proof, by a known troll !

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From: Baron on
7 Inscribed thus:

> Jenn rote:
>
>> Conor wrote:
>>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7
>>> says...
>>>
>>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady
>>>> cost saving Linux.
>>>
>>> <snigger>
>>> Linux - free if your time is worthless.
>>>
>>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share
>>> in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%?
>
> 33% of all netbooks sold is with Linux. The market share is still
> increasing.
>
>
>> ... because Windows is geared toward the general pc user, which is a
>> bigger
>> market than Linux users. Market share has no bearing on whether a
>> system is
>> better than another. They are totally different markets altogether.
>
>
> Windopws is now used mainly by amateur home users and professional
> amateurs in terms of stature. The professionals all use Linux.
> Professional Linux users make the embedded devices, smartphones, ebook
> readers, printers, smartbooks, tablets, netbooks, run data centers,
> run servers, run all the big database based services, run financial
> services and run big government projects.
>
> Closed source is not generating as much wealth or sharing it out with
> the manufacturers and retailers as much as it used to in terms of
> business volume compared to open source. Every flat TV sold contains
> Linux, so does MP3 players, MP4 players, MP5 players, ebooks,
> smartphones, etc. Some 3 million+ embedded electronic gadgets bring
> Linux based income to retailers and manufacturers alike.

Hey don't forget "set top boxes, in car entertainment systems, vehicle
engine management, sat nav's, point of sale equipment, printers,
machine control systems, video surveillance systems etc etc...

> A smart retailer should look into all the other Linux based products
> and expand stock range to make even more money instead of pondering
> in the dark about where the next income is coming from. Coming down
> the line are new range of smartphones, tablets, smartbooks, netbooks,
> ebooks all of which carries Linux.

Looking forward to the new "ARM based tablets"...

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From: Peter Köhlmann on
Hadron wrote:

> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:39:07 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7
>>>>>> says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snigger>
>>>>>> Linux - free if your time is worthless.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market
>>>>>> share in 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no
>>>>> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and
>>>>> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new
>>>>> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their
>>>>> PC and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice.
>>>>
>>>> Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing
>>>> documents?
>>>
>>> What documents would that be, Hadron Snot Quark?
>>
>> Ask him to email you one that won't work to prove it.
>>
>> A friend often emails me Excel and Word 2007 documents which work fine
>> with OO 3.0 and he can read my documents OK (saved as .XLS or .DOC, of
>> course).
>>
>> Bye-bye (again).
>
> You're both in denial and both obviously do NOT use OO or MSO since
> anyone that does knows that as soon as you start any half decent
> formatting then OO falls over.

I have both, and I have yet to see a document which isn't loaded by OO or
even fails to render properly

> Its been proven time and time again and I
> dont intend to post the same links over and over again

It has been claimed time and again by you and your lying ilk. That does
not mean that those claims have any base in reality
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From: Snit on
Peter K�hlmann stated in post hicvos$ro7$01$1(a)news.t-online.com on 1/10/10
9:37 AM:

>> You're both in denial and both obviously do NOT use OO or MSO since
>> anyone that does knows that as soon as you start any half decent
>> formatting then OO falls over.
>
> I have both, and I have yet to see a document which isn't loaded by OO or
> even fails to render properly

Then you have failed to look at the information that has been provided to
you:

<http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/OfficeComp/>
<http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/OfficeComp2/>

When you go out of your way to stay ignorant, as you do, your views will be
of little value.

>> Its been proven time and time again and I
>> dont intend to post the same links over and over again
>
> It has been claimed time and again by you and your lying ilk. That does
> not mean that those claims have any base in reality

The files I used are available on those links. Have fun denying that
reality.

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From: Darren Salt on
I demand that Baron may or may not have written...

[snip]
> Looking forward to the new "ARM based tablets"...

Me too. Would be nice to have _new_ ARM-based desktop boxes too...

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