A Linux for the totally maintenance free

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Nov 2 06:49:28 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 09:14 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Ah! But you have poorly-written buggy software to buy for every little
> "feature" you could like and additional software to buy to iron out
> the wrinkles in there and additional software to buyt iron out the
> wrinkles in there and additional software to buyt iron out the
> wrinkles in there and .....  (I believe that that establishes the
> sequence).
>  
> Who can possibly beat that? 

There's a song that springs to mind whenever I think about the Windows
solution of adding a new thing to fix an old thing, recursively, instead
of actually fixing the fault, it fits it down to a tee:  There was an
old lady who swallowed a fly.

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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.



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