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Re: Wide Variety of Wines?

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Wide Variety of Wines?
Date	2014-05-07 17:03 -0700
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On 5/7/14, 4:59 PM, in article lkehda$3ts$7@dont-email.me, "RonB"
<ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 May 2014 11:31:04 -0500, chrisv wrote:
> 
>> In Larry's upside-down, lies-are-truth world, people who want others to
>> make their choices for them are the smart ones, and people who prefer to
>> make their own choices are "brain dead".
> 
> It all comes down to money.

Not to me. It comes down to what serves me best at a good price.

And below you get things backwards - from a consumer's view point it matters
how much things cost, not how much money the company makes from the
purchase. As long as the company is making enough to likely stick around and
keep improving the product how much they make is not relevant.

Still, it is fun to see how much it pisses you off. :)

> Microsoft makes LOTS of money, therefore any
> evil they do, any product they rush to the market in beta state, any
> hobbyware they force on their customers, any insecure Malware Magnet OS
> they thrust on the world MUST be forgiven because, after all, they make
> money. LOTS of it and that's all that matters.
> 
> The same can be said for Apple with their insane profit margins. Even
> though Apple is now at about 12% of the world's smartphone market, they
> make more money per unit and therefore, in the upside-down "logic" of
> iCultists (and WinDrones) they are a "success." As if being reamed for a
> product is something to brag about.

Again: what matters is how much you pay and what you get, not how much the
company makes... even if your imaginary friends tell you otherwise.

> Meanwhile Linux -- in their myopic opinion -- doesn't "make money." Never
> mind Red Hat, IBM, Google, the movie studios, the web hosters, Amazon and
> the millions of embedded Linux devices, Linux doesn't make money in their
> small minds -- and that's all that matters. Greed rules them. And greed,
> by its very nature, short circuits the brain.



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Wide Variety of Wines? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 11:04 +0000
  Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 13:22 +0200
    Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2014-05-07 14:18 +0200
      Re: Wide Variety of Wines? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 12:32 +0000
        Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-07 08:34 -0700
        Re: Wide Variety of Wines? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2014-05-08 06:17 -0700
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 07:54 -0700
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 10:55 -0400
            Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 10:12 -0700
              Re: Wide Variety of Wines? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2014-05-08 13:32 -0700
      Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-07 08:35 -0700
      Re: Wide Variety of Wines? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-07 11:31 -0500
        Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-07 09:50 -0700
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 13:18 -0700
        Re: Wide Variety of Wines? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 23:59 +0000
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-07 17:03 -0700
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-08 07:08 -0500
            Re: Wide Variety of Wines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-08 08:47 -0400
            Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 07:55 -0700
              Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 10:50 -0700
  Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-07 08:06 -0400
  Re: Wide Variety of Wines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-07 10:14 -0400
    Re: Wide Variety of Wines? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2014-05-08 06:22 -0700
  Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-07 08:34 -0700
  Re: Wide Variety of Wines? "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 09:05 -0700
    Re: Wide Variety of Wines? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-08 07:15 -0500
      Re: Wide Variety of Wines? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 08:23 -0400
        Re: Wide Variety of Wines? "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 13:03 -0700
          Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-05-08 18:12 -0400
            Re: Wide Variety of Wines? "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 22:56 -0700
              Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-05-09 09:11 -0400
                Re: Wide Variety of Wines? "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 08:15 -0700
                Re: Wide Variety of Wines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 11:29 -0400
                Re: Wide Variety of Wines? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 10:49 -0700
      Re: Wide Variety of Wines? "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 13:15 -0700

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