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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:10:22 +0000
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:10 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 2/20/2025 4:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:27:56 -0500, Paul wrote:
> > 
> >> The original offering was "bash shell".
> > 
> > “Bash” stands for “Bourne-Again SHell”. So what you have there is the 
> > “bourne-again shell shell”.
> > 
> 
> I didn't pick the name for this thing.
> 
> I'm forced to use terminology that other
> people in the group might recognize.
> 
> That's the shorthand for the "we don't know why they are doing Linux" project.
> The original justification for doing it, was pretty lame.
> 
> There is probably only one other person than myself using it.
> The audience here isn't really interested.
> 
> But if you want to have XEyes on your Windows desktop, you can.
> 
>      [Picture]
> 
>      https://i.postimg.cc/s2sSnJS9/xeyes-are-watching.gif
> 
As Anton has said, that's not a picture, it's a web page with stuff that
might show you a picture.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.