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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4966 comp.os.linux.misc:33754 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75139 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!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!rosevax!reddwarf!grante From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <1995Jan19.173809.7732@rosevax.rosemount.com> Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (Rosevax USENET News auto-admin account) Nntp-Posting-Host: reddwarf Organization: Fisher-Rosemount, Rosemount Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fif9g$gsi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:38:09 GMT Lines: 27 Benjamin I. Williams (biwillia@crh0099.urh.uiuc.edu) wrote: : How bout I call the author a lying asshole. Good enough? Yeah, : the prick should TRY IT OUT before writing an article that belongs in : comp.os.minix.advocacy (if there existed a newsgroup like this. SAYYY, : wait a second...! IS the authors name Andy Tannenbaum? hahaha. FYI, : Andy Tannenbaum was the very haughty creater of the minix shitty operating : system. He happened to be silenced by Linus Torvalds in a thread that : started in January of '92. Some attempt at revenge, if is was him! :) How about we call all you people jumping on the "flame infoworld" bandwagon a bunch of lying assholes. Good enough? Yeah, you pricks should READ THE ARTICLE before flaming somebody for giving Linux a positive review in a major trade rag. It sure looks to me like his remark about Linux users being neurotic was a bit of an understatement. You guys are making the Linux community look not neurotic but downright schitzophrenic with paranoid tendencies. Sheesh. -- Grant Edwards | Microsoft isn't the | Yow! You can't hurt me!! I Rosemount Inc. | answer. Microsoft | have an ASSUMABLE MORTGAGE!! | is the question, and | grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no. |