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   wookie@aces.localdomain to All   
   Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Tech   
   09 Feb 07 06:15:18   
   
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   From: Harold Stevens    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership   
   Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:15:18 -0000   
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   > You get the picture   
      
   Torvalds had the pix right YEARS ago; all the rest is media frenzy:   
      
        * Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a   
          completely unintentional side effect.   
             + "The Way We Live Now: Questions for Linus Torvalds", New York   
               Times, 2003-09-28.   
      
   That's one of many quotes from Linus in Wikiquote:   
      
                     http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linux   
      
   I'd suggest taking a breather before getting all breathless about winning   
   over a typical American dullard^Wconsumer to Linux.   
      
   JMO; YMMV...   
      
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