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“Lots of people know Leo Laporte. You might have seen him as one
of the hosts on Tech TV’s Screen Savers show, or heard his podcast,
which is the number one or two most downloaded podcast currently,
depending on who you talk to. If so, you know that Leo is the
consummate pragmatist. He’s not an open source advocate per se, but
a best-of-breed kinda guy. He’s recently gone on record saying that
GNU/Linux is not ready for his mom or the prime time desktop just
yet. He’s not a UNIX advocate, although he is enthused about the
power of the UNIX-type way of doing an operating system. He likes
Macs, but he is not anti-Windows and specifically denies that he is
a Mac bigot. He is willing to help people get the most out of
Windows, and, for example, recently talked to a local PC users
group about how to make their Windows more secure (to the extent
that’s possible)…”
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