On Wednesday 29 March 2006 12:31 pm, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:03:48PM -0500, tom smith wrote:
> > *Do you have an iPod?*
> >
> > "No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many
> > dimensions
> > they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at
> > least on this
> > dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use
> > Google, and you
> > don't use an iPod."
> >
> > -interview with Telis Demos of Fortune Magazine
>
> Why am I not surprised he brainwashes his kids? He's trying to
> brainwash me, after all.
Yeah, but let he without sin cast the first stone? Who doesn't brainwash their
kids? My kids use Linux and laugh at Windows because their daddy does.
Where I differ with Ballmer though is I never forbid them from using Windows,
and indeed one of them has a Windows box. As a teen I learned from watching
other kids, that when their kids absolutely forbade anything, somewhere
between 16 and 20 they'd do that something just to rebell. So with stuff like
dope, cigarettes and Microsoft I just let them hear me say what's on my mind
-- what kind of stupid loser would do that stuff? Hopefully that will work
better than Ballmer's "thou shalt not" approach.
Also, when it comes to *free* games, Linux has much better ones, especially
Mandriva Linux.
SteveT
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