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Re: There is no choice



On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:35:49AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 9/23/2014 8:26 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> >> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:10 +0000
> >> "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> It woun't kill any detractors to try this and help us find what
> >>> breaks, to help us to get a Debian system we can all be proud of
> >>> instead of talking up a storm to complain about things. Experience
> >>> may also allow us to support alternatives where feasible.
> >>>
> >> Why is it forbidden to do both? I need to use Windows for some
> >> purposes, and occasionally I even correct some of the more out-of-date
> >> FUD about it, but that doesn't mean I think it's great, or that I'm
> >> somehow not allowed to criticise it.
> > 
> > No, but consider how it would go down if you were a Farmer who wasn't
> > happy with the crop yield but instead of going to the seed manufacturer
> > you go along to the tractor service department and complain incessantly.
> > How do you think that would go down?
> > 
> > It is the wrong Mailing List!!!
> > 
> 
> A much closer example would be if you only had one tractor dealer
> available, and he decided only to carry one tractor.  And that one
> tractor had everything in one piece - plow, disc, planter, 19 different
> harvesters for different crops (corn, wheat, cotton, turnips, etc.).
> And every time you took to the field you had to take all that with you.
> 
> BTW - all of them are dependent on each other - and if the corn
> harvester fails, you can't plow your fields or plant your wheat.
> 
> That is what systemd does.

You still don't get it. 

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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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