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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5090 comp.os.linux.misc:34101 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76179 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ub4b!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!rc1.vub.ac.be!igwe1.vub.ac.be!chrisg From: chrisg@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Chris Gruwier) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 18 Jan 1995 13:14:01 GMT Organization: Brussels Free Universities VUB/ULB Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3fj46p$d2v@rc1.vub.ac.be> References: <950116203411@lambada> NNTP-Posting-Host: igwe1.vub.ac.be. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 He probably couldn't get past the LILO boot prompt 8*) Chris Gruwier (chrisg@chrisg.is.lame.org)