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From: bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:06:55 GMT
Organization: Wasatch Communications
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In message <D2o50q.sps@ns1.nodak.edu> - tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguel
y) writes:
>In article <950116203411@lambada> ed.duomo@lambada.oit.unc.edu ("Mr. Ed") writes:
>>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"!
>
>When I read the article I got the impression that the author did not
>know what to think of Linux. He did not know what to call it.
I can't stand it anymore! It's 'underware', not like Hanes, but a
play on 'underdog' and 'software'.
Underdog + Software = UnderdogWare -> underware.
I feel better now...back to the regularly scheduled flame-throwing.
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Bob Hauck bobh@wasatch.com
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