Desktop Linux (fwd)

Michael Costolo mcostolo at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 26 14:25:11 EST 2004


--- Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> That's complete nonsense.

I disagree.
 
> learn v. tr.  gain knowledge of or skill in by study, experience, or
> by being taught.  --OEAD
> 
> So, if they have no experience with OO, and spent no time studying or
> being taught about OO, then they clearly have not learned it.  Q.E.D.

How pedantic do you want to get here?  Using the definition you provided, if they
spent an *instant* of time making an observation about a difference in the way the
two programs function, they they learned.  Is this really where you want to go?  

> What they learned was Microsoft Office.  

And if they paid any attention, they learned that Open Office is similar.  Oh my.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
-George Bernard Shaw

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