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Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops?

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops?
Date 2014-05-08 19:50 -0700
Message-ID <CF91909D.36D5B%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 5/8/14, 7:39 PM, in article lkhf5k$aue$4@dont-email.me, "RonB"
<ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 08 May 2014 23:20:20 +0100, Lusotec wrote:
> 
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> 
>> Lloyd E Parsons wrote:
>>> But for all of that if you were to tell the vast majority of Android
>>> users that they are using Linux, you'd get a questioning look and then
>>> "what's Linux"!  :)
>> 
>> But for all of that if you were to tell the vast majority of Windows
>> users that they are using NT kernel, you'd get a questioning look and
>> then "what's NT kernel"!  :)
>> 
>> But for all of that if you were to tell the vast majority of iOS users
>> that they are using XNU, you'd get a questioning look and then "what's
>> iOS" and "what's XNU"!  :)
>> 
>> For how long will the anti-Linux horde continue to use these idiotic
>> arguments?
>> 
>> Get some new material, seriously!
> 
> It simply doesn't matter. These WinDrones and iCultists can't get past
> "branding" and all the greed it implies.

Who cares what your imaginary friends do or what they think? They are
*imaginary*! Deal with it!

> They can't imagine Linux existing without being a corporate "brand." Yeah,
> Linux is community developed. It's free, people can use without paying for it
> -- and all that money you think someone should be getting for the Linux
> "brand," for all those Linux boxes just doesn't exist. Linux makes
> corporations money -- lots of it, but the Linux "brand" doesn't. Android
> (Linux) exists. Chrome OS (Linux) exists. Red Hat (Linux) exists. CentOS
> (Linux) exists. Linux Mint (Linux) exists. Ubuntu (Linux) exists. Kindles
> (Linux) exist. Nooks (Linux) exist. Thousands and thousands of embedded
> devices using Linux exist. But the "brand" Linux is virtually non-existent.
> And no one who actually uses Linux gives a rat's ass about the Linux "brand."
> Branding is of utmost importance to money grubbers, not Linux users. When
> WinDrones and iCultists figure out this simple point, they'll come a long way
> to understanding why we find their empty arguments a waste of time. We speak
> two different languages.
> 
> Go back to your Mac and Windows brands, brag about being reamed by the
> corporations who foist their expensive hobbyware on you -- we don't care. The
> question is, why are obsessed with Linux, "Lloyd?"

Why are you obsessing over your imaginary friends and what they say... and
then babbling about it in public?

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An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 16:18 +0000
  Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 18:44 +0200
    Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 11:41 -0700
  Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-08 11:45 -0500
    Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-08 19:33 +0100
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 11:47 -0700
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-08 14:44 -0500
        Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-08 16:42 -0400
          Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 22:45 +0200
            Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 13:49 -0700
          Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 13:46 -0700
          Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 02:26 +0000
            Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2014-05-09 02:38 +0000
              Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-09 05:52 -0400
              Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-09 07:37 -0400
              Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-09 06:56 -0500
            Re: Windows, the OS that hides that it is VMS Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 19:39 -0700
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-05-08 23:25 +0200
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-08 23:20 +0100
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-08 19:53 -0400
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-09 07:34 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 09:18 -0400
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 02:39 +0000
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-08 19:50 -0700
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-08 14:46 -0500
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 02:21 +0000
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 02:24 +0000
      Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-08 23:20 -0400
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 10:35 +0200
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2014-05-09 11:08 +0200
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 09:38 +0000
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-09 06:51 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 14:19 +0200
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 08:59 -0400
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 13:34 +0200
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 08:58 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-09 08:03 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-09 08:45 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 10:09 -0400
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-09 06:49 -0500
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 13:52 +0200
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 09:30 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 15:33 +0200
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-09 07:55 -0400
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-09 08:17 -0700
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 10:51 -0700
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-09 07:24 -0500
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2014-05-09 13:33 +0100
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-09 10:06 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-09 09:21 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-09 09:46 -0500
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 09:28 -0400
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-05-09 09:09 -0400
        Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-09 15:20 +0100
          Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-09 10:40 -0400
            Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-16 11:50 +0100
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-16 11:52 +0100
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-16 12:59 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-16 07:31 -0400
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-16 06:46 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-16 12:59 -0400
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-16 18:15 +0100
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-16 12:39 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-16 16:44 -0400
              Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-16 13:01 -0400
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-05-16 18:46 +0100
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-16 13:10 -0500
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-16 16:46 -0400
                Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-05-16 16:53 -0400
  Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2014-05-09 04:38 -0700
    Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 13:40 +0200
    Re: An Android All-In-One @ #9 in Desktops? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-05-09 09:51 -0400

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