LWN: Comments on "A Tokyo moment"

A Tokyo moment

len.brown@intel.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:21:29 +0000

Len Brown's photos moved here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SAytENvjDkrdK9fAA

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Wol — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:56 +0000

If I want to do anything more complicated than the SIMPLEST word processing, I use WordPerfect.

Apart from the MICROSOFT bugs (of which it contains too many :-(, it works PERFECTly.

Cheers,
Wol

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leoc — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:00:33 +0000

The perpetrators of violence in this story were certainly not fans of Linux or Open Source.

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dion — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:05:49 +0000

I read that as "Linux hating Raymond fans" and didn't quite get it.

... although I suspect there are quite a few Raymond hating Linux fans:)

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SEMW — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000

> i hope they do try. can't wait to see what happens

You mean apart from Chris Schlaeger suing them for copyright infringement?

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AJWM — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:20:48 +0000

Heh. Note the still well-stocked shelves, and the complete lack of a crowd of customers. (Not to mention the about-to-ROTFL expression Linus is wearing.) Great pic.

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russelljohn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:39:53 +0000

Picture of the year!

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jordanb — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:18:40 +0000

Especially something regarded as representing marketable skill...

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njs — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:55:17 +0000

> Do such people exist? I've never met anyone who actually *liked* Windows, or Microsoft.

Dude, this is humanity. People will form tribes-for-tribes-sake around *anything*.

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epa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:42:58 +0000

I've never felt it worth my time to work out the magic voodoo to get page numbers in Word. I just write them on by hand afterwards.

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wsa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:35:25 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this one! Will definately visit it when I am in Tokyo next year.

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yoshi314 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:08:53 +0000

i just hope that ms marketing team won't try to use that photo. it would
perfectly suit them, or it might awfully backfire on them ;)

now that i think of it - i hope they do try. can't wait to see what happens
:]

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gus3 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:26:24 +0000

This person needed a serious dressing-down from his higher-ups.

Of course, the easiest come-back is, "If Windows has no bugs, why does it need Patch Tuesdays?"

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felixfix — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:16:00 +0000

I had a runin with one once. I had been fighting a really annoying pagination bug in Word, whereby it would print the past page as "33 of 32" if you made even the slightest change, and it would take plenty of screwing around with print preview etc to get it back to sanity.

This idiot interrupted me just when I was about to start screaming and told me there were no bugs in Microsoft products, that it was all operator error. He was dead serious about this as he always had been about all Microsoft products. He would have invited Bill Gates to be his best man if he were getting married. And no, it was not a joke. He never once showed the slightest sense of humor about anything, ever. I disinvited him from my cubicle and went back to my task and eventually got it working again.

Yes, those people do indeed exist.

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Trelane — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:05:26 +0000

As much as linux-loving Redmond-haters do. It takes all kinds.... :(

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epa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:48 +0000

A lot of Linux hating Redmond fans

Do such people exist? I've never met anyone who actually *liked* Windows, or Microsoft. (Long ago there was a 'Dave Cutler fan club' for the designer of VMS and Windows NT, but I'd be surprised if even these people were holding launch parties for Windows 7.)

Indeed, to characterize anyone at all as 'Linux hating' or 'Microsoft lover' is a fairly unhelpful mindset, in my view.

On the other hand...

marduk — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:47 +0000

> Why do I suspect we won't see one of Bill giving a thumbs-up in front of Tux? :-)

I once saw him do tha... oh, wait.. that wasn't his thumb ;-)

On the other hand...

Max.Hyre — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:29:47 +0000

Why do I suspect we won't see one of Bill giving a thumbs-up in front of Tux? :-)

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Quazatron — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:15:35 +0000

Software with a sense of humour, that's our motto :-)

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kragil — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:06:38 +0000

A lot of Linux hating Redmond fans will love this picture. But I think it cool. Everybody with a brain will get it.

Nice to see Linus has the cool socks&sandals thing going ;)

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glandium — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:17:48 +0000

Someone should bring Linus to the Linux Café, which, like the Summit, is in Akihabara:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnurou/2544691079/