Why Linux is not (yet) ready for the desktop

[Brian Fahrlander]

Goh Lip wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> Goh Lip wrote:
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>>> ps: If you have objections to religious signatures
>>> would this bother you?
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>> Yes.  Pushing one's religious (or not) opinions on everybody on the list is 
>> hardly friendly.
>>     
> Yes, Derek I concur. However, I do have one more to add...
> It is also repugnant or at least condescending to say one system, like a 
> christian capitalist system has more merits over say, a hindu socialist 
>   system. That is akin to a supremacist way of thinking. To attribute 
> India's lack of progress to an inferior culture is not, to say the 
> least... repugnant.
>
>   
    I believe it's the actions of the Indian culture defining 
repugnancy. Until recently, I've always been open to Indian thinking and 
cultures.  Ask anyone: tell me you're not from American but speak 
English and I'd love to talk with you for hours.  It's what I miss from 
living in Chicago, where a different set of three languages can be heard 
at every coffee shop.  But to not only toleration, but FARMING the 
poverty is starting to overwhelm me. I'm not sure there's a reason to 
keep an open mind.

    Nevermind it's been this way for centuries since I came along to 
notice it. When the Flying Tigers (1938-39) stopped by New Delhi before 
going onto their own airfields, they dined in a restaurant with dying 
people outside.  This isn't new.

    The key thing is, how can any people, any place, go to work each day 
looking into the eyes of slowly-dying children without doing something 
about it? I thought socialism was meant to care "for everyone".  And 
it's repugnant for me to notice it?  Shouldn't someone?

    I'm not supremacist; it's not me doing the killing. I'm sorry if it 
offends.  I was just trying to make the point that 
capitalism+Christianity was designed to, has a history of, helping 
everyone, not just the high-rollers.

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
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