[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Tony Godshall]

On 10/21/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:23:54PM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
> > Tony Godshall wrote:
> > > On 10/19/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >
> > >> Still a little high, but you get what you pay for.
> > >
> > > People always say that, but I've paid plenty for stuff that turned out
> > > to be crap.
> >
> > I think that's one of those English sayings that don't quite mean what
> > sound like they mean, like: "all that glitters is not gold." What
> > people usually really mean is more like "you get at most what you pay
> > for." Which is also not true, as anyone who's used Myth (or Linux, or
> > Firebird, or...) could point out.
>
> Indeed.  I always, purposefully, say "You don't get what you don't pay
> for."  You don't always, as you note, get what you *do* pay for."

But I didn't get Ubuntu, and I got it!

And I didn't pay Linus for the kernel.

Anyhow, lots of free stuff is great, the best things in life, as they say.

So yes, I do get what I don't pay for.

And I'm not even a famous politician from Alaska.

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