Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: bbgruff Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:27:33 +0100 Lines: 51 Message-ID: <95fk2kFce2U1@mid.individual.net> References: Reply-To: bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net MmhbLEwUekQLrSN3jXhifAcG65c0feLqCWredgV9+Nv935B02l Cancel-Lock: sha1:QvLt7HQpNHZP7jb5/fDm05lyZig= User-Agent: KNode/4.4.8 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.advocacy:31984 comp.os.linux.setup:433 On Friday 10 June 2011 23:07 RayLopez99 wrote: > Again, I ask the timeless rhetorical question: who is seriously using > Linux for Serious Work? Since the first time I've posted this thread, > from years ago, only ONE (1) person has shown me they do Serious Work > (a defined term--for you first time viewers--I'm talking about an OS > that supports the Office Suite). This one person was a contract > manager who insisted on using Linux. He was valuable enough to his > organization that they let him get away with this stunt, and he ended > up converting all Linux work into Office format using some emulator > like Wine I suppose, or perhaps Linux somehow can export to .docx > format, though I don't see how. > > One person in all these years. Just one. > > Case closed. Hi Ray - and nice to hear from you again, particularly with your favourite topic:-) I owe you an apology. I once called you stupid. Since then, I've been reading posts here by flatfish, DFS, hadron, and one or two others, and concluded that stupid you may be, but not so stupid as they! Going back to your question though, a thought strikes me, and perhaps you can help..... To reach me:- - your post was sent via Google (Linux) - it went to my Usenet hosting company - who run Linux - it came from there via my ISP - who use Linux - through my router - which uses Linux - and hence to my computer, which is running Linux. My reply (from my Linux machine) will go through my router to.... you catch my drift? I wonder if between us we have a full set? 1. What OS is *your* ISP using? 2. Do you have a router? If so, what does *it* use? 3. Have you manged to get Linux to work yet, or are you still too bloody thick, you cretin???