One big thing Microsoft, Apple, and all CTOs can learn from Ubuntu

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Kevin Hunter wrote:

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> This turn of phrase does indeed come from our (USA) ... sometimes
> less-than-aware culture.  However, I take it more to mean exactly as you
> have described: those who just aren't oriented toward the computer.  My
> advisor, for example, is *very* smart, and can be taught to do many
> things on the computer.  But, even though he's only 35, I still have to
> retrain him every time something changes.  And he's an engineer!

Having been an engineer all my life and having dealt with many of my 
peers, I can say with certainty that the conference of an engineering 
degree does not guarantee that, aside from his/her narrow specialty,
the conferee knows his/her a** from a hole in the ground.

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