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anphanax

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Ten years from the masses
« on: 20 January 2004, 04:32 »
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In Australia to attend a conference, where he has been following GNOME sessions with particular interest, Linus Torvalds has been saying that he thinks that in all likelihood "normal users" won't see a Linux desktop for 10 years.



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Ten years from the masses
« Reply #1 on: 20 January 2004, 05:53 »
He means the average "lets buy a fancy CPU in the wallmarket' user.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
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