[while reading this email, if you (the reader) finds anything offensive,
please imagine a wry grin on my face]
On Apr 14, 2000 at 04:06, Dinesh Shah wrote:
>It seems that there was no further responses other than
>Satya and Sagar so I waited sometime after preparing my
>draft and ultimately sending it to BT.
Despite the impression given by Philip, Sagar, and me, some people take a
couple of days to catch up on email. Sometimes it's the routers at fault.
Sometimes the ISPs.
>> If you have...
>> Why didn't you ask us first, before quoting??
>
>I am extremely sorry that I didn't ask.
Don't do it again, please :)
As my emails to the group are being posted to a public forum, I do expect
them to not remain a secret. But it is common courtesy to ask before
forwarding. (Anyone remember the RFC number?)
>is in ur court. Anyway your point well taken.
*nod*
>> IIRC it's now Dr. Linus Torvalds. That o either has a slash through it,
>> or two dots over it.
>
>err.. It seems that I must have missed the story in
>LinuxToday about awarding Doctorate to (Now Dr.) Mr.
Dunno where I heard that, I think it was in some newspaper :)
>Torvalds.(And how do I make a slash throu' the o or two dot
>over it?)
You don't, unless you have some Scandinavian charset. :)
\"o is sometimes acceptable. I'm sure someone will correct that if it is
wrong.
>> One might consider doing a press release over this Aryabhatt incident. I
>> can see it now: "ILUG-Bombay up in arms!", "Linux Users a
>
>Good idea. Why not start creating such a press release right
>now. For that matter I will prepare a draft and post it here
>for a comment "BEFORE" posting to BT or other publications.
That's an excellent idea. Any takers?
>Open Source OSs), its still true and I do stand by my
>statement about the quality of pros churned out, dime a
>dozen, by these companies, so that they can claim that their
As long as it's your own statement that you're attributing to
yourself and quoting to the press, I have no problem. I might even say
something like "Personally, I don't believe in paper certifications".
I still want my BE degree, though.
>would not believe how many support calls I receive for other
>OSs by those certified pros in solving their day to day
>problems even though I do not have any of those
>certificates.
I believe you :)
>How many OSs comes bundled with whole lot of apps. and utils
>apart from browsers? The point I was making is that most of
>the things in Linux and Open Source community is free and
>the cost associated with any distro has nothing to do with
>OS itself but for the media, manuals, support and likes.
Please make that point clearly, as pointed out by Philip (IIRC). It is
important.
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