[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

Bruce Beardall bruce72 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 10:38:13 BST 2008


I will not surrender!

Yeah, OK, I will. Just wanted to wave my flag from my soapbox.

I'm still smiling.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Philip Newborough <
mail at philipnewborough.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall <bruce72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my
> > real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by
> the
> > BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in
> > presenting it's insightful articles investigating such "official"
> entities
> > as Microsoft and Apple while dismissing Linux as something for hippies
> and
> > geeks.
>
> Fair point, but I wouldn't read anything into this other than
> ignorance. Also, a fair number of Linux users do happen to be geeks :D
>
> Peace out man ;)
>
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