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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:12:50 -0400
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RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-03-22, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote at 22:56 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> vallor wrote:
>>>
>>>>BTW, what hh really wants in a Linux system is something
>>>>running ChromeOS.  You telling me he can't find a Chromebook?
>>>
>>> Obviously, a Chromebook is also far from optimal for most people,
>>> despite the "larger marketshare" that gives the "full time UI
>>> professionals" the "greatest amount of user UI feedback to optimize
>>> from".
>>>
>>> -highhorse's anti-choice idiocy continues to astonish me.
>>>
>>> You only have to look around you, to see that he's wrong.  Pick a
>>> market.  Any healthy, competitive market will do.
>>
>> Chromebooks are pretty bad, yeah.
>
> I tried out Chromebooks. I agree. You can run Linux on them, but working 
> around the ChromeOS is a pain.

Nonsense!  School kids everywhere use them!  :-)

-- 
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially
in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -- I mean negative
capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,
mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
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