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From: kwm <kwmelvin@nr.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...)
Date: 1997/04/18
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Date: 1997-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Alexander Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > In <m2k9m15l7g.fsf@acm.org> Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
> > >
> >
> > >You obviously haven't installed Linux recently.  I hear that many
> > >distributions are as easy or easier than Windoze.
> > >
> > Excuse my ignorance.  What is Linux (a form of unix for PCs?).  Is it
> > really that well supported?
> > SNReddy
> 
> BETTER THAN WINDOWS!

Heheheh... that is, assuming that Windows is actually "supported"?
Does anyone actually get any useful technical support from Microsoft?
>From what I've heard, their "support" is 'technically correct' but
totally useless! <grin>

OTOH, technical support for Linux isn't bound by the walls of any
one corporation... rather, the support is global, and for the most
part, fast and accurate!

Linux was born and raised on the Internet. The support comes from
"home".

-- 
Kenneth W. Melvin
email: kwmelvin@nr.infi.net
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8823/index.html
LinuX IS user friendly. It's just choosey about who its friends are.