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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4849 comp.os.linux.misc:33473 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74430 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix.gen.nz!stevew From: stevew@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <D2KBMv.B5t@actrix.gen.nz> Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator) Organization: Actrix - New Zealand Internet Service Provider Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:35:18 GMT References: <950116203411@lambada> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: atlantis.actrix.gen.nz Lines: 48 In article <950116203411@lambada>, Mr. Ed <ed.duomo@lambada.oit.unc.edu> wrote: > In the columns section of the Jan 16 Infoworld, there is a column > highly insulting to linux. In it the writer basically says the > following: > > o linux is really not free It is free if your time is worth nothing, your FTP is free and you steal your diskettes....:-) It is next to free if you buy the 3-CD set at Quay Computers in Wellington for NZ$45 (about US$30). This is the December InfoMagic Distribution. > o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans Passionate people present real problems for the indifferent and uncaring. > o linux is difficult to install (their senior systems analyst > apparently failed to install it) My first go took me 9 attempts before I got it right. But I had some thing to login to after about the 3rd attempt. This senior analyst must be limited to DOs/Win.......a babe in the woods with anything else, I would guess. > o linux should be called "underware"! I call it "active" ware. It makes you work. Challenges you. > He then goes on to refer to linux as underware throughout the column > -- over ten times. The column is also titled something like "Linux > should be called underware". Underware what? Hanes? Fruit of the loom? > BVD? How insulting! The guy clearly isn't used to software as game-puzzle. He doesn't like software as obstacle course. His life must be free of challenge or learning curves. He wants his hand held. He gets no satisfaction from figuring something out for himself. Linux is for people who want to *earn* the right to login as ROOT. I like it, but I can how wimps would be put off by it. :-) Steve