Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5014 comp.os.linux.misc:33873 comp.os.os2.advocacy:75481 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!bin.anu.edu.au!nathanh From: nathanh@bin.anu.edu.au (Nathan Hand) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 23 Jan 1995 12:21:35 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3g070f$251@manuel.anu.edu.au> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fjcn4$24u@nkosi.well.com> <3fmi6c$ang@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3fvqbd$6v1@nkosi.well.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.63.25 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Henry Hwong (henryh@well.sf.ca.us) wrote: : Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote: : : Henry Hwong <henryh@well.sf.ca.us> wrote: : : >Nobody in their right mind is going to use Linux as a : : >production database server. : : I don't understand what you are trying to say here; can you explain what : : you mean? Linux is currently being used in real-world mission-critical : : applications. Perhaps those using it should hear your warning, if you : : would care to explain it - : Sure. I am in no way dis'ing Linux itself, but, rather, lamenting its : state as a chaos-bred operating system. Fortune 500 businesses want : certain things for their IS departments, one of which is support. : Contracted support. Something you can hold over vendors when you don't : get what you need. : : [whack] Excuse me. I have nothing against what you said. People want the security of money changing hands and the responsibility which changed hands with it. Yeah, fine. But why are your arguing with the poster before you? You (Henry) had said "Nobody in their right mind is going to use Linux as an um-tiddly-i-poe". The follower (Henry) just said that there are people out there, with right minds, using Linux as the afore-mentioned um-tiddly-i-poes. How can you dispute that? If you want security thats fine. If you want support thats fine. If you want huge crowds in the same boat with you thats fine. But people with right minds _do_ use Linux. Dont make out that these people are out of their minds or that Linux is somehow inferior.