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This must be made up, because the person admits to trying out Linux then goes on a ridiculously over the top pro Microsoft slant (without argumentation). Somebo

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• jerf 18y ago
  Two possibilities come to mind: Satire, as mentioned by other people, or the original teacher is lying about having used Linux. As anybody who has been around on the internet (or BBS or Usenet or...) for a while has learned, some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true. (Maybe.)
  • stcredzero 18y ago
    ...some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true. I find this idea onerous, though I strongly suspect it's true. I wonder if someone could start a public forum that's a "Truth Zone?" Is it even possible? Wikipedia works well enough. Maybe their techniques would enable this?
  • Dobbs 18y ago
    It's also possible that the she was forced to use Unix in college. As she is not a techie, and probably wouldn't pay a very large amount of attention to the details, mixed the two up.
    • Network_Punk 18y ago
      The way I read it she had to use the command line when she was in college, and thinks the GUI is "stolen" from Windows. (Hence the concern about legality)
• imgabe 18y ago
  Somebody that clueless would probably confuse telnetting into a Unix box and checking their email with PINE (common in colleges before webmail) with "trying Linux" in college.