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From: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD.  This time from BillG, himself.
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:46:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010620204614.A20147@sync.nyct.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <993069751.10191.0.camel@agate> <E15Cq9u-0000CX-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010620153345.I3089@work.bitmover.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010620153345.I3089@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:33:45PM -0700

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:33:45PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:

> You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact
> of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for
> your Linux talks in PowerPoint.

I think this is an unfair generalization.

I'm not even all that clear about what PowerPoint is (I've never
seen it, ever). I'm guessing that it lets you display slides in
sequence, but that's just from what I've seen of MagicPoint, which
someone said at a user meet was a clone of PowerPoint.

(And yes, the talk given that day was in fact done with MagicPoint)

-- 
Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
Technical Staff / System Development,
New York Connect.Net, Ltd.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-21  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-20 20:42 The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself Miles Lane
2001-06-20 21:33 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-20 22:31   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-20 19:53     ` Rob Landley
2001-06-21  8:50       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 16:41         ` Rob Landley
2001-06-20 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-20 22:33   ` Larry McVoy
2001-06-20 22:51     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-20 23:04     ` William T Wilson
2001-06-20 23:07     ` Khalid Aziz
2001-06-21  8:46       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 13:48         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-21 17:32         ` Miles Lane
2001-06-20 23:20     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-21  0:46     ` Michael Bacarella [this message]
2001-06-21 14:20       ` chuckw
2001-06-21  8:37     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-21 16:25       ` Rob Landley
2001-06-21 22:37         ` Michael Bacarella
2001-06-21 22:49           ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 11:08             ` Rob Landley
2001-06-22 18:33             ` Kai Henningsen
2001-06-28 22:33               ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-21 12:57     ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-20 23:02   ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-20 23:16   ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-20 23:34   ` Alan Olsen
2001-06-21 10:07   ` Paul Flinders
2001-06-21 12:57     ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-21 14:01       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-23 16:29         ` watermodem
2001-06-20 22:28 ` IP_ALIAS in 2.4.x gone? Alan Olsen
2001-06-20 23:12   ` Alan Olsen
2001-06-20 23:59     ` Erik Schoenfelder
2001-06-22 10:47 ` problem with select() - 2.4.5 Thomas Speck
2001-06-22 19:53   ` Thomas Speck
2001-06-23  0:36     ` Edgar Toernig
2001-06-20 22:53 The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself Wayne.Brown
2001-06-21  7:59 ` Daniel Stone
2001-06-21 13:00 Jesse Pollard
2001-06-28 22:02 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-29 19:41   ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-06-30  1:10     ` David Schwartz
2001-06-30  1:45       ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-06-30  2:50         ` David Schwartz
2001-06-30  7:24           ` Lionel Elie Mamane
2001-06-30 14:22             ` Dmitri Pogosyan
     [not found] <51FCCCF0C130D211BE550008C724149E01165690@mail1.affiliatedhealth.org>
2001-06-21 18:21 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-25 18:05   ` Andreas Bombe
2001-06-26 11:46     ` john slee
2001-06-28 22:27   ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-29 20:02     ` Paul Fulghum
2001-06-22 12:36 Holzrichter, Bruce
2001-06-29 19:11 Clayton, Mark
2001-06-29 18:05 ` Rob Landley
     [not found] <87009604743AD411B1F600508BA0F95994C8DF@XOVER.dedham.mindsp eed.com>
2001-06-29 19:47 ` Android
     [not found] <fa.hs4no6v.h0k6ok@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-30 15:38 ` Ted Unangst
2001-07-02  5:14   ` Greg Rollins

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