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RE: You logic fails you
Now imagine what would have happened if your parents tried to install MS Publisher on Linux...

And your own example is flawed. The average user would be running everything under the administrator account anyways on Windows XP.
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Finally someone who agrees.  jonbob | 11/04/03
And missed Lindows  voska | 11/04/03
Lindows? Not ready for primetime  marksashton | 11/04/03
why?  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
read me files?  Ardian Daka | 11/04/03
Should have mentioned Macintosh...  gtdworak | 11/04/03
Re: Should have mentioned Macintosh...  issthatso | 11/04/03
no reason  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
tco  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
there's a reason  jonbob | 11/04/03
Sure you understand proprietary?  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
please autofill this field  none none | 11/04/03
Re  MACSSUCK | 11/04/03
OS X ain't available on x86 - so non-issue  MeMyselfAndI_z | 11/04/03
Non-issue  JoeError | 11/04/03
RedHat changes target  OhMyGosh | 11/04/03
don't believe it!  screaming silence | 11/04/03
Huh????  Heatlesssun | 11/04/03
same people  stephen732@... | 11/04/03
cars  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
odd, that  jonbob | 11/04/03
I suppose the same people  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
Linux is better than windoze everywhere?  mamuka.khantadze@... | 11/04/03
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LOL  voska | 11/04/03
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Hadn't heard this before. Yeah right.  Heatlesssun | 11/04/03
So based on your logic ...  GLMarx | 11/04/03
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Honesty....  BitTwiddler | 11/04/03
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Hey I'm movie collector, I have 1000s  voska | 11/04/03
Hey I'm movie collector, I have 1000s  voska | 11/04/03
Intresting.  Heatlesssun | 11/04/03
My secret  voska | 11/04/03
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Ref: Even Red Hat knows Linux is blowout  grumpy_trumpy | 11/04/03
Re: Even Red Hat knows Linux is blowout  issthatso | 11/04/03
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deal with it.  vdraken | 11/04/03
IT's ready  voska | 11/04/03
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No, it is not.  vdraken | 11/04/03
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profiles  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
RE: You logic fails you  nrlz | 11/04/03
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Macs  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
WPA in Windows XP and other Microsoft products  rcrow | 11/04/03
WPA = Windows Product Activation  pschroeder@... | 11/04/03
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WPA = Windows Product Activation  rcrow | 11/04/03
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