From the Desktop: Fishing for Trout, Catching a Marlin

Nov 07, 2008, 21:05 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Brian Proffitt)

"This day, however, found me setting down my sandwich and replying to my friend, "What'd you screw up this time?" He usually gets mad at things when he's made a mistake, and we all knew it.

""Well, nothing, " he said, "I just don't understand why anyone would use it."

"At this point, I had to ask myself, do other Linux advocates get this a lot? Already this seemed like a repeat of conversations I had had in the past."

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