Credit to the inventor too, who freely acknowleded URI for supporting his efforts. I don't know if he had to sign away IP rights to the University like most corporate folks do, but it *sounds* like he's including them as partners without anyone having to remind him of a certain signature on a certain piece of paper. Credit where credit is due.
You're right, and brake failure in cars never leads to injury or death. It's usually the impact with the concrete wall that causes injury or death. I go to boot my MS partition and the boot mgr tells me the partition is screwed up, no can do. You're right, no data loss, the average user has simply lost their ability to access, permanently. I say permanently because your average user (no previous Linux experience) isn't going to have the wherewithal to browse forums, dig into vendor support sites and decipher known-problem articles. They're gonna say "Oh, cr4p!" Maybe they have a geek friend who can bail them out. Lacking that, the data's lost. 'Course they can always go to their latest backup... "Backup?" Never say never.
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If one more invite exists, could someone be so kind as to send it to: g4dz00ksyahoocom
Credit to the inventor too, who freely acknowleded URI for supporting his efforts. I don't know if he had to sign away IP rights to the University like most corporate folks do, but it *sounds* like he's including them as partners without anyone having to remind him of a certain signature on a certain piece of paper. Credit where credit is due.
Ooop, I thought the whole point was to get Linux simple enough for the average user to use as a way of ridding themselves of M$. Sorry, my bad.
You're right, and brake failure in cars never leads to injury or death. It's usually the impact with the concrete wall that causes injury or death. I go to boot my MS partition and the boot mgr tells me the partition is screwed up, no can do. You're right, no data loss, the average user has simply lost their ability to access, permanently. I say permanently because your average user (no previous Linux experience) isn't going to have the wherewithal to browse forums, dig into vendor support sites and decipher known-problem articles. They're gonna say "Oh, cr4p!" Maybe they have a geek friend who can bail them out. Lacking that, the data's lost. 'Course they can always go to their latest backup... "Backup?" Never say never.