Re: All you who suggest Linux as ansers for software issues, read about this idiocy.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In Germany, it just means a shop that sells bins (though I'm not sure if
bin means anything as a noun in German - Sebastian?).

Not as a noun. You've already discovered the (auxiliary) verb meaning
of "bin". Of course "laden" is a verb too (to load), so the standard
meaning of "bin laden" in German would be "I am loading". It has been
used as a joke.

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