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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5123 comp.os.linux.misc:34181 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76442 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!satisfied.elf.com!news2.near.net!news3.near.net!noc.near.net!vtf.idx.com!rsf!rsf From: rsf@mother.idx.com (Rob Freundlich) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <rsf.154.0969339D@mother.idx.com> Lines: 39 Sender: news@vtf.idx.com (USENET News System) Organization: IDX Systems Corporation X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] References: <oj7gpDm00iWPQ7hm0d@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:56:40 UNDEFINED In article <oj7gpDm00iWPQ7hm0d@andrew.cmu.edu> Ian S Nelson <bonovox+@CMU.EDU> writes: >Xref: vtf.idx.com comp.os.386bsd.misc:4416 comp.os.linux.misc:31611 comp.os.os2.advocacy:122154 >> 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! >The users are just like amiga fans, they have a lot of support for it. >That is good and all, Linux is not that bad being free. It runs on a >lot of configurations. There are better things out there though, IMO >and the opinion of many more people. BSD, Solaris, AIX, SCO, UnixWare, >NextStep, and several others all run on x86 too... Linux users don't >seem to understand that; you don't get source with all of those, but you >often get a lot more than you do with linux. Just the fact that you are >making this public scene about it kind of proves his point. "Public scene"? I don't see the original posting as making a public scene. It was intelligible, factual, and informational. The only "scene"-like thing in it is a (fairly mild) response to a (fairly clear) insult. I'm a former Amiga user, and believe me, the stereotypical rabid Amiga Fan (a minority, albeit a vocal one) wouldn't *dream* of posting something so rational. --- Rob Freundlich, Senior Software Engineer | "males are biologically driven IDX Systems Corporation | to go out and hunt giraffes" | - Newt Gingrich "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote em" - Tom Paxton