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From: damir@is.net (Damir Smitlener)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:42:45 -0500
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Message-ID: <damir-1701951842450001@wetware.is.net>
References: <950116203411@lambada>
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In article <950116203411@lambada>, ed.duomo@lambada.oit.unc.edu ("Mr. Ed")
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?
This wouldn't have been written by the same guy who a few issues ago
declared unix to be computing's latest "legacy system", would it?
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damir smitlener |
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