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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4914 comp.os.linux.misc:33590 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74763 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!pacbell.com!well!henryh From: henryh@well.sf.ca.us (Henry Hwong) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:39:16 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3fjcn4$24u@nkosi.well.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> NNTP-Posting-Host: well.sf.ca.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Who cares? The best way to deal with this columnist is to ignore him. However, he does have some interesting points. 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 True. Now, for all those people who are screaming "What about the newsgroups? I can post one question and get ten gazillion answers!" -- whoa. Who's paying for those computers sitting on the Internet? Who's paying for the network connections? If you're at a school, part of your tuition (or "computer facility fee") does. If you're at work, money that could be going to salaries are. Until recently, a portion of your tax money did too. : o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans I'm not going to even touch this one. :-) : o linux is difficult to install (their senior systems analyst : apparently failed to install it) Like everyone has said here -- Infoworld is geared for IS groups or consultants. Not everyone has the time to geek out on operating systems and play on them. Nobody in their right mind is going to use Linux as a production database server. : o linux should be called "underware"! Blatant flame-bait. Ignore the guy. : 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! Calm down. It isn't worth the adrenaline wasted. :-) : What do you think of this? See above. : Ed Henry (henryh@well.sf.ca.us)