\_ SMTP quoth Jim on 3/12/2002 08:21 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ Ok - time for everyone to back off a bit. I, like many others, took the
\_ original flame bait about XP. Who really cares if it is better than previous
\_ products? I guess what surprised me is that this is a PRO-LINUX group.
\_ Extolling virtues should be limited to extolling the virtues of Linux.
Speaking to the doc across the street, he says that when drug reps
come in with the latest cure-all, he begins with:
* You may not ask questions.
* You get dinged everytime to disparage a competitor, even indirectly.
The presentations are short, sweet, and to the point.
It cuts out:
"So what do you use now?"
"Product G sucks because of ...."
He and I are consistently amused by the similarities in our jobs:
user == patient
bug == bug
gdb == scalpel
pennicillin == norton (mcaffe?)
outlook == typhoid mary
....
David
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