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Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
From: rbowman
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From: bowman@montana.com (rbowman)
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Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:03:22 -0500, DFS wrote:

> On 12/23/2024 9:14 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:14:54 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> June of this year marked my first 20 years on cola, so I'm working on
>>> my back 20 now.
>>
>> Some of your complaints were valid 20 years ago. It's sad how some
>> people seem to get stuck in the past.
>
>
> Linux is perfect now?

If Windows is perfect why do they have to patch it at least once a month?
Release new versions?

Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
From: TomB
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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:18 UTC
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On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
> On 12/23/2024 1:36 PM, TomB wrote:
8<
>> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
>> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
>> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
>> spending any money.
>>
>> So there's that :-)
>
> TomBaby!
>
> It's been nearly 7.5 years since the resident rock drummer/Linux
> advocate graced us.
>
> How's life in Belgium?
>
> How's your latest Windows job going?
>
>
> Note: the Internet says you can't use your Win7 key to activate Win10.

The Internet can say whatever it likes, it's still possible. Did that
many times on the Windows job and the result was always a fully and
properly licensed Windows 10, with digital entitlement and all. The
real funny bit is that I'm upgrading those to Windows 11 now, so
that's three versions with just a single purchase.

The Windows job's fine by the way. Still using a surprising amount of
GNU/Linux, even more than ever these days. Most servers are still on
Debian and Ubuntu, a lot of PCs in our labs are also on Ubuntu, and
we're now even have around 10% of laptops on Ubuntu as well (although,
unfortunately, we have a project underway to move those back to
Windows after about 5 years).

--
Today is what happened to yesterday.

Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
From: RonB
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On 2024-12-23, TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-12-15, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>> On 11/17/2024 7:41 PM, Joel wrote:
>>> ... but they sure are trying with Win11:
>>>
>>> https://deals.bleepingcomputer.com/sales/microsoft-windows-11-pro-6
>>>
>>> $18 for Pro, heh.
>>
>>
>> unauthorized retailer.
>>
>> Get back to me when Microsoft gives Windows away.
>
> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
> spending any money.
>
> So there's that :-)

It seems to work with with Windows 11 as well. Now if only Windows was worth
effort of installing it.

--
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

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On 2024-12-23, TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of Chris Ahlstrom:
>> TomB wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
>>> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
>>> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
>>> spending any money.
>>>
>>> So there's that :-)
>>
>> Long time no see, brothah!
>
> I just found back my old slrn config files and wondered whatever
> happened with cola :-)
>
> First reply was to DFS, so nothing really changed I suppose!

Nope. Seem old DuFuS, same old FUD.

--
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

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On 2024-12-24, TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>> On 12/23/2024 1:36 PM, TomB wrote:
> 8<
>>> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
>>> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
>>> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
>>> spending any money.
>>>
>>> So there's that :-)
>>
>> TomBaby!
>>
>> It's been nearly 7.5 years since the resident rock drummer/Linux
>> advocate graced us.
>>
>> How's life in Belgium?
>>
>> How's your latest Windows job going?
>>
>>
>> Note: the Internet says you can't use your Win7 key to activate Win10.
>
> The Internet can say whatever it likes, it's still possible. Did that
> many times on the Windows job and the result was always a fully and
> properly licensed Windows 10, with digital entitlement and all. The
> real funny bit is that I'm upgrading those to Windows 11 now, so
> that's three versions with just a single purchase.

I know for a fact that Windows 7 (I think even Windows Vista) licenses work
all the way up to Windows 11. (You have to create a Rufus Install USB and
turn off the check TPM setting for old machines on Windows 11.)

> The Windows job's fine by the way. Still using a surprising amount of
> GNU/Linux, even more than ever these days. Most servers are still on
> Debian and Ubuntu, a lot of PCs in our labs are also on Ubuntu, and
> we're now even have around 10% of laptops on Ubuntu as well (although,
> unfortunately, we have a project underway to move those back to
> Windows after about 5 years).

--
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
From: Diego Garcia
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From: dg@linux.rocks (Diego Garcia)
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On 24 Dec 2024 02:14:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:

>
> It's sad how some people
> seem to get stuck in the past.

Seem? That idiot is irretrievably stuck and helplessly spinning
his wheels while the rest of the computing world is racing
forward.

He's like one of those Appalachian backwoods codgers that refuse
to believe that the Civil War is over and the South lost.

An IQ of 85? Maybe a bit too high.

Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
From: DFS
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From: guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca (DFS)
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On 12/24/2024 6:00 AM, Diego Garcia wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2024 02:14:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>>
>> It's sad how some people
>> seem to get stuck in the past.
>
> Seem? That idiot is irretrievably stuck and helplessly spinning
> his wheels while the rest of the computing world is racing
> forward.

GuhNoo/FOSS is "racing forward" to catch up to the features of 1990.
It's almost 2025 and that crapware LibreOffice Base still can't copy and
paste correctly.

LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
HSQLDB Embedded

Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.

The slopware will TELL you it's copying just the data you selected, but
when you paste it's a different story.

This! Is! GuhNoo!

And those LO "developer" idiots sit there grinning with their hands in
the air, thinking they're helping to fulfill Stallman's deranged dream.

> He's like one of those Appalachian backwoods codgers that refuse
> to believe that the Civil War is over and the South lost.
>
> An IQ of 85? Maybe a bit too high.

last, first
-----------------
Jones, Thomas
Baker, Constance
Baker, Alfred
-----------------

Write a C program to sort names by last, first and output by first, last.

See you never, "C Programmer Extraordinaire" and "veritable genius who
can program anything".

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On 2024-12-24, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:

> LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
> HSQLDB Embedded
>
> Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
> table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
> copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.
>
> The slopware will TELL you it's copying just the data you selected, but
> when you paste it's a different story.
>
> This! Is! GuhNoo!

LibreOffice has little to nothing to do with GNU. The main license
isn't even GPL, but MPL.

--
You will contract a rare disease.

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RonB wrote:

> TomB wrote:
>>
>> I just found back my old slrn config files and wondered whatever
>> happened with cola :-)

Hey TomB!

>> First reply was to DFS, so nothing really changed I suppose!
>
> Nope. Seem old DuFuS, same old FUD.

That dumb fsck is tedious. Very tedious.

--
"you ignorantly thought Linux was *perfect* as so many cola nutcases
do" - DumFSck, lying shamelessly

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On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:42:39 -0000 (UTC), TomB wrote:

>>
>> This! Is! GuhNoo!
>
> LibreOffice has little to nothing to do with GNU. The main license
> isn't even GPL, but MPL.
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha! You got that geezer on that one!

LO is a derivative of StarOffice which had its origin as
Germany proprietary software way back in 1985. It has
absolutely no relation to the GNU project.

Furthermore, GNU does not require an office suite. Any office
software is just a crutch for idiots. Any functionality that
an office package contains can be better accomplished through
other means -- and GNU provides plenty of those.

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On 12/24/2024 9:42 AM, TomB wrote:
> On 2024-12-24, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>
> 8<
>
>> LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
>> HSQLDB Embedded
>>
>> Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
>> table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
>> copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.
>>
>> The slopware will TELL you it's copying just the data you selected, but
>> when you paste it's a different story.
>>
>> This! Is! GuhNoo!
>
> LibreOffice has little to nothing to do with GNU. The main license
> isn't even GPL, but MPL.
>
> 8<

Not sure why I associated LO with the GPL.

revised troll:

This! Is! FOSS!

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On 12/24/2024 10:42 AM, Lameass Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

> Any office software is just a crutch for idiots.

Other side of your mouth:

"I use LibreOffice, and I'm worth 10 billion people."

"It's LibreOffice all the way for docu mgmt and payroll processing."

"LibreOffice is ready to go as well as immensely capable."

babble babble

The thread those quotes came from - "LibreOffice Programming Challenge"
- is a goldmine of your confused idiocy. It's one stupid statement
after another.

You don't belong anywhere near IT or software.

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DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>On 12/24/2024 6:00 AM, Diego Garcia wrote:
>> On 24 Dec 2024 02:14:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> It's sad how some people
>>> seem to get stuck in the past.
>>
>> Seem? That idiot is irretrievably stuck and helplessly spinning
>> his wheels while the rest of the computing world is racing
>> forward.
>
>GuhNoo/FOSS is "racing forward" to catch up to the features of 1990.
>It's almost 2025 and that crapware LibreOffice Base still can't copy and
>paste correctly.
>
>LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
>HSQLDB Embedded
>
>Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
>table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
>copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.
>
>The slopware will TELL you it's copying just the data you selected, but
>when you paste it's a different story.
>
>This! Is! GuhNoo!
>
>And those LO "developer" idiots sit there grinning with their hands in
>the air, thinking they're helping to fulfill Stallman's deranged dream.

That really is it, I guess, you have M$ Access, you therefore spend
all your other computing time in M$. I could not care less about
anything M$ Office.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

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TomB wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2024-12-24, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>
> 8<
>
>> LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
>> HSQLDB Embedded
>>
>> Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
>> table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
>> copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.
>>
>> The slopware will TELL you it's copying just the data you selected, but
>> when you paste it's a different story.
>>
>> This! Is! GuhNoo!

This! Is! Bullshit!

It is complete bullshit, at least on Linux. Easy to verify.

> LibreOffice has little to nothing to do with GNU. The main license
> isn't even GPL, but MPL.

DFS been sneaking into his momma's stash.

--
In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals.
You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.

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Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>
>>GuhNoo/FOSS is "racing forward" to catch up to the features of 1990.
>>It's almost 2025 and that crapware LibreOffice Base still can't copy and
>>paste correctly.
>>
>>LO for Windows 24.8.4.2 (x64)
>>HSQLDB Embedded
>>
>>Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
>>table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
>>copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.
>
> That really is it, I guess, you have M$ Access, you therefore spend
> all your other computing time in M$. I could not care less about
> anything M$ Office.

DFS is flat out lying here. And chortling like the Riddler.

--
Yes me, I got a bottle in front of me.
And Jimmy has a frontal lobotomy.
Just different ways to kill the pain the same.
But I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,
Than to have to have a frontal lobotomy.
I might be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
-- Randy Ansley M.D. (Dr. Rock)

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On 2024-12-24, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:

> This! Is! FOSS!

Much! Better!

--
TomB
You are fairminded, just and loving.

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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>> some dumb fsck wrote:
>>>
>>>Using Ctrl+C or the menus, you can copy-paste ONE cell, or the entire
>>>table. Those are your only options. You can't highlight a column and
>>>copy-paste it. You can't highlight a row and copy-paste it.

Lying idiot.

> DFS is flat out lying here.

We know that because he typed something here.

--
'A more equal distribution of usage would prove "choice" is valued the
way you cola idiots bleat about it' - DumFSck, lying shamelessly

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TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote at 19:58 this Monday (GMT):
> On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of Chris Ahlstrom:
>> TomB wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
>>> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
>>> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
>>> spending any money.
>>>
>>> So there's that :-)
>>
>> Long time no see, brothah!
>
> I just found back my old slrn config files and wondered whatever
> happened with cola :-)
>
> First reply was to DFS, so nothing really changed I suppose!

Well, welcome back! I use slrn too.
--
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Le 24-12-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> while the rest of the computing world is racing forward.

Thanks for reminding me you are not part of the computing world. Which
is racing forward when you are stuck in the past.

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Subject: Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...
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On 2024-12-23 14:21, Joel wrote:
> TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-12-15, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:
>>> On 11/17/2024 7:41 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>> ... but they sure are trying with Win11:
>>>>
>>>> https://deals.bleepingcomputer.com/sales/microsoft-windows-11-pro-6
>>>>
>>>> $18 for Pro, heh.
>>>
>>> unauthorized retailer.
>>>
>>> Get back to me when Microsoft gives Windows away.
>>
>> For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
>> with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
>> MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
>> spending any money.
>>
>> So there's that :-)
>
>
> I could've had Win10 Pro and upgraded it to 11 on this machine, for
> zero dollars, yes. I didn't know I could merely use the Win7 key.

You spent some money and learned a valuable lesson. Don't beat yourself
up about it.

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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

>> I could've had Win10 Pro and upgraded it to 11 on this machine, for
>> zero dollars [because of my previous computer's license], yes. I didn't know I could merely use the Win7 key.
>
>You spent some money and learned a valuable lesson. Don't beat yourself
>up about it.

I don't regret it, honestly, the stimulus payments in 2021 were what
gave me the money for the new product key and the hardware. Didn't
affect me financially, to buy Windows.

--
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Amendment XIV
Section 1.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
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On 2024-12-23 23:03, DFS wrote:
> On 12/23/2024 9:14 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:14:54 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> June of this year marked my first 20 years on cola, so I'm working on my
>>> back 20 now.
>>
>> Some of your complaints were valid 20 years ago. It's sad how some people
>> seem to get stuck in the past.
>
>
> Linux is perfect now?

It's not, but the fact that it is as good as it is at no charge to a
potential user should give it a lot of bonus points.

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Le 27-12-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
>
> It's not, but the fact that it is as good as it is at no charge to a
> potential user should give it a lot of bonus points.

<https://ibb.co/q5dTR0g>

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On 2024-12-28 05:11, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 27-12-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
>>
>> It's not, but the fact that it is as good as it is at no charge to a
>> potential user should give it a lot of bonus points.
>
> <https://ibb.co/q5dTR0g>

Yeah, that's all pretty true.

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Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>Le 27-12-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
>>
>> It's not, but the fact that it is as good as it is at no charge to a
>> potential user should give it a lot of bonus points.
>
><https://ibb.co/q5dTR0g>

ROFL!!!

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Amendment XIV
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Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

BOFH excuse #391: We already sent around a notice about that.

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DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	rbowman
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Stéphane CARPENTIER
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	TomB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	TomB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	rbowman
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	rbowman
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Andrzej Matuch
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Stéphane CARPENTIER
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Andrzej Matuch
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Diego Garcia
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	TomB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Diego Garcia
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	TomB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Stéphane CARPENTIER
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	RonB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	chrisv
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	candycanearter07
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Andrzej Matuch
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	Joel
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	DFS
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	TomB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	RonB
Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...	RonB