IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: July 23rd, 2009

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-07-24 08:32:34 UTC
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2009-07-24 09:58:42

Good god. What a bunch of bored teenagers these boycottnovell-folks are. Maybe they are taking the 'boy'-part of boycottnovell literally.

The high-points of this IRC-log is some squirming on their behalf in response to Lefty's questions and their calling Linus Torvalds 'naive'.

Well, they should know, there no-one as worldly-wise as a bunch of teenage boys! ;-)

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IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: July 23rd, 2009

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