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From: biwillia@crh0099.urh.uiuc.edu (Benjamin I. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: 18 Jan 1995 07:17:04 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
: 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!
: What do you think of this?
: Ed
I find it very insulting, and untrue. It is *really* a pity when
big name publications have to resort to lies such as the ones listed above.
I have thoroughly explored most of the linux system. As an avid user
of this great work of software, I can well justify my high thinking of
this operating system.
: o linux is really not free
Ummmm...says who? I ftp'ed it from tsx-11.mit.edu and
sunsite.unc.edu with no money lost whatsoever. I think what the
writer might be referring to is the support issue. I don't see
how support can get any cheaper than the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups....
FREE! This writer is an asshole....definately :-)
: o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans
Oh...Am I? :-) I consider myself pretty mild. Basically, all
I have to say to that is, the Linux guru can defend his operating system
pretty well, and doesn't have to make up facts like Amiga Users. I mean,
realisticly, I don't come storming into the newsgroup and claim that linux
on a 486 is 20 times as fast as 10 MP sparc's (I know some Amiga users
who would attempt this :)
: o linux is difficult to install (their senior systems analyst
apparently failed to install it)
Hmmm... I hope he doesn't lose his job. He must be pretty
dumb. I bet he was trying to install it on a 286. hahaa. What a prick.
I installed Linux in a half hour and have been using it ever since.
My computer hasnt been off in ages.
: o linux should be called "underwear"!
How bout I call the author a lying asshole. Good enough? Yeah,
the prick should TRY IT OUT before writing an article that belongs in
comp.os.minix.advocacy (if there existed a newsgroup like this. SAYYY,
wait a second...! IS the authors name Andy Tannenbaum? hahaha. FYI,
Andy Tannenbaum was the very haughty creater of the minix shitty operating
system. He happened to be silenced by Linus Torvalds in a thread that
started in January of '92. Some attempt at revenge, if is was him! :)
Just my little ol' comments....and the TRUTH.
-Ben
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Benjamin I. Williams [] The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Music Composition []
Computer Science [] Linux + Xfree + Motif = Power.
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Benjamin I. Williams [] The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Music Composition []
Computer Science [] Linux + Xfree + Motif = Power.
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