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From: rsf@mother.idx.com (Rob Freundlich)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:56:40 UNDEFINED
In article <oj7gpDm00iWPQ7hm0d@andrew.cmu.edu> Ian S Nelson <bonovox+@CMU.EDU> writes:
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>> 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.
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