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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