Re: [linuxiran] Redhat 9 to Debian Sarge Migration

[Hossein S. Zadeh]

Arash Partow wrote:
> There is a children's story written by Hans Christian Andersen called
> the emperor's new clothes. Basically two con artists made everyone in
> the kingdom including the emperor himself believe that if they could
> not see these new clothes they were weaving out of special thread for
> the emporer that that person was indeed not fit for his or her position
> in society.
>
> In short rather than trying to make him understand what debian is and
> why it is infinitesimally better than any other linux distribution out
> there, make him believe that if he doesn't already know why, then he
> is indeed not fit for his job...
>
> for us the mind, at best, is a very beautiful toy - ha ha ha ha :)

Arash,
Oh boy, I love that. I never looked at the story in this way before... 
(which probably means I am not fit for my job ;-) ). I am definitely 
going to use this some day...

Cheers,
Hossein

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