Re: OT: camros

In article <OFDF711DAD.DA0A049A-ON80256CC8.00688993@steria.co.uk>, Mike
Elliott <Mike.Elliott@steria.co.uk> writes
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>Symon Cook wrote:
>>Symon Cook (founder member of Camros)(The Campaign for Real Operating
>Systems).
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>?..... Oh, you're a Linux fan, right?

Yes, but there is more to it than that. I've other operating systems
that I class as real. The Mac O/S's, TOPS20, the flavours of BSD, the
Pick family and others. I believe O/S2 qualifies though I've never
managed to get hold of a copy. Even Xenix qualifies, so it isn't just
non-Micro$oft!

One of the fundamental things to qualify as a real O/S is the ability to
back itself up without fear or doubt, producing restore media that can
return the system to the exact point of the restore without further
intervention. Install media should only be required for licence
verification if that.

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>Mike

I love corporate boilerplate sigs. So I'll poke some fun at Steria and
its ludicrous corporate chest-thumping, not Mike.

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Bad news Steria Ltd. Once your server says RCPT TO: is ceases to be your
property, unless you have an arrangement to store your property on my
server. Now you are still protected by copyright but as for the rest,
pure BS.

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I have to pay for Steria's mistakes I see? Unenforceable.

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So Steria does know this is unenforceable nonsense. Steria doesn't have
a contract with me and is seeking to create one, despite the rest of the
sig claiming such. SPLORF! Why doesn't it get rid of it all and use an
RFC compliant sig then? (Six lines max).
Cheers
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Symon Cook (founder member of Camros)(The Campaign for Real Operating
Systems).
.....
"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said. "You think
that's all 
that goes on between people."

Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light. 1971.