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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4906 comp.os.linux.misc:33556 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74689 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!dfw.net!dfw.net!not-for-mail From: jhs@dfw.net (Justin Scott) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 17 Jan 1995 16:24:57 -0600 Organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3fhg3p$ba0@dfw.net> References: <950116203411@lambada> <dangitD2Jz8s.EvG@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dfw.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lam Dang (dangit@netcom.com) wrote: : 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 : : o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans : : o linux is difficult to install (their senior systems analyst : : apparently failed to install it) : : o linux should be called "underware"! : : 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! : : What do you think of this? : I'd react the same way to any product or process which poses a real threat : to my making a living. If I'm a trade rag, what's in Linux for me? : Linux, its developers, and its users must be doing something right to : get this kind of attention. Well, this is the first time I've heard of any magazine giving Linux a bad review. Even SCO World and UNIX Review gave Linux a good word! And UNIX Review had an interview with Linus Torvalds in it! :) Not all the people in the industry are afraid of Linux... many actually welcome it's addition. Justin