Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>]

* Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> [2008 Mar 18 15:09 -0500]:
> On Mon, March 17, 2008 10:10 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >> Perhaps it is something uniquely American, but the key to understanding
> >> Ron's association is the wine tasting example given in the article.  As
> >> mentioned earlier in the thread, the sex scandal mentioned only
> >> guaranteed more people would read the article.
> 
> >> Hmmmm, kind of proves the point!
> 
>     Not really, Nate, look how many people didn't read the article because
> of the sex scandal lead.  :P

And I gather that the two that posted about not reading it that I
replied to are not in the USA where such a salacious lead-in works all
too well quite often.

> > Back to computers:
> >    We're such a successful company, we can afford to buy Tier 1 kit,
> >    and send all that money to MSFT.  And because we do, we *must*
> >    be getting good stuff.
> 
> > (If that is, actually, an actual upper-management though process.)
> 
>     Ron...  You know that's exactly actual upper-management thought process.
>  :)

I'm tempted to say that "upper-management thought" creates an oxymoron
until the word "process" is added behind them.  Then it makes all too much
sense.  :(

- Nate >>

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