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On Mar 31, 2013 9:26 AM, "Richard Vickery" <<a href="mailto:richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com">richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mar 31, 2013 3:56 AM, "Reindl Harald" <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Am 31.03.2013 05:47, schrieb Richard Vickery:<br>
> > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Joe Zeff <<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> > > On 03/30/2013 08:09 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:<br>
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> > > In my world, those of political science and law, research is done in<br>
> > > books or online reports where we know what to look for, and we have a<br>
> > > pretty good knowledge of what the cases are that we're making; plus, we<br>
> > > have librarians ready and willing to help find information. Excuse my<br>
> > > ignorance, but I neither knew, nor heard anyone suggest, that I had to<br>
> > > go grab information and insight from some webpage, the existence of<br>
> > > which most contributors, at least in my place, are clueless of.<br>
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> > > So what you're saying is, it never would have occurred to you to go to the distro's website and see what the<br>
> > > people putting it out have to say about it, before using it?<br>
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> > > How would I know to look for something that I would not be sure I had an interest in, let alone know exists?<br>
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> > sorry but this sounds very idiotic<br>
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> What reference point are you using when you use the term 'idiotic'?<br>
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> I wonder ifanyone has given any thought to this surprise being exactly that which is why universities will never install Fedora or Red Hat on any of their boxes, much less entirely. Microsoft will ALWAYS beat us out when they're far more helpful than we are.</p>
<p>Sorry, I shouldn't have said "helpful"; by "more helpful" I ought to have said that they don't disrespect the users' humanity by calling them idiots.</p>