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Re: Any reason to upgrade on slow machine?

Subject: Re: Any reason to upgrade on slow machine?
From: Whiskers
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:37:20 +0000
Newsgroups: opera.general

On 2009-03-27, Auric__ <not.my.real@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> I have had jobs where I would have been *fired* for using Linux. Not 
> necessarily because it's Linux (zealots back off) but because my boss 
> wouldn't have had any idea what it was and what I was doing with it. Hell, 
> I almost got fired once for using DOS -- boss just didn't know what she was 
> looking at over my shoulder, and I had to do some fast talking to avoid 
> being walked off-site by security.

I wonder if that boss tries to tell carpenters, electricians, welders, gas 
fitters, and other experts, how to do /their/ jobs?  After all, she is 
probably very competent at using the floor and the lights ... Perhaps she
does the barking for her dog, as well?

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