At the US border

[david thornton]

Oh for heck sake ..

sry 4 my pour engrish.

Next time ring me and wring my neck over the phone :P

he he ....

What's SAS?

Special Air Services?

The acronym doesn't ring a bell right off. Also my Dad has the same name 
as me.

Oh and about that pirating? Ever Heard of BSA? MS lackey and Unwitting 
hero of OSS.

http://www.bsa.org/

Ok maybe that's a bit of a skeptical view, forgive me.

David


James McIntosh wrote:

>At 09:08 PM 2006/10/03 +0100, David Thornton <david-FkEgs2FKm2NvBvnq28/GKQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>My experience has been that often "business people" think that if they 
>>are not paying for it , it's not professional. It's about having a 
>>throat to choke. They hire me cause they want to be able to 
>>    
>>
>
>ring 
>
>You mean "wring"
>
>my neck 
>  
>
>>when it doesn't work. They want me to use redhat so that when it breaks 
>>I can 
>>    
>>
>
>ring 
>
>You again mean "wring"
>
>redhat's neck.
>  
>
>>They WANT Redhat. They need to know when I can't fix it I can call the 
>>monther-ship. Funny thing is , redhat support is worse than useless. 
>>Which is typical for most first "support groups" which is a modern 
>>"broken thing"
>>
>>http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4101280286098310645&q=broken
>>
>>Bah,
>>David
>>    
>>
>
>
>I have had very different experiences.
>
>My customers want commercial software, and avoid public domain, freeware
>and shareware.
>
>They only want commercial software, but much prefer to "borrow" it from a
>friend, so that they don't have to pay money.
>
>One person somewhere buys the software, and 15,000 people use it,
>"pirating" it.
>
>When I asked these employees of government and billion-dollar corporations
>why they behaved that way, they said:
>"Because _=WE=_ can get away with it!"
>
>I don't want to mention the names of these employees, government
>organizations or billion-dollar corporations, because I don't want libel or
>slander lawsuits.
>
>P.s.: Are you the David Thornton who spent so much time involved in SAS ?
>
>
>Jim McIntosh   416-292-8126   <jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org>
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