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Enterprise Linux IT: Linux Reality Outstrips Linux Myth
Mar 5, 2005, 03 :00 UTC (19 Talkback[s]) (7941 reads)

(Other stories by Paul Murphy)

[ Thanks to Tom Wickline for this link. ]

"The personal computer industry is about to arrive at a 'tipping point' in which everything changes and those who get ahead of the curve earn social and cultural advantages over those who don't.

"A social or economic tipping point is characterized by a sudden burst of mass sanity as mainstream public opinion abandons an unsustainable mythology in favor of something closer to reality. Such reversals usually have a sustaining mythology of their own, complete with an acceptable explanation for previous behavior. In the case of the PC industry tipping point now upon us, that mythology is built around the legend of Linus Torvalds..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
 Linux is technically *VASTLY* superior  ...   People Who Say Horrible Things about Linux   
I-Write-FUD@Paid-By-mircosatf
Mar 5, 2005, 04:08:46
 
...the Linux operating system itself [.. ...   Revisionist falsified history   
Jay Curry
Mar 5, 2005, 04:19:00
 
authentic *BSD/Solaris fan because he ta ...   He can't even be an ...   
R.L.
Mar 5, 2005, 08:04:22
 
Many good points and I did like the sent ...   Many good points   
Lars
Mar 5, 2005, 09:35:12
 
This article was strongly pro-Linux.  On ...   are we reading the same article?   
michael
Mar 5, 2005, 13:53:52
 
Yes BSD is very good. However, lot's ...   Doing Ken Brown's dirty work are we?   
andrew
Mar 5, 2005, 15:32:18
 
> This article was strongly pro-Linux.   ...   Re: are we reading the same article?   
Eric Brown
Mar 5, 2005, 18:13:04
 
While he may have gotten the part about  ...   Read The Article Please   
Richard Steven Hack
Mar 5, 2005, 20:43:16
 
I suppose this is a fair gauge of the po ...   Mixed up and confused, but decent   
scott_R
Mar 5, 2005, 21:20:31
 
Although Torvalds contributed a key comp ...   My problem is the amount of credit Torvalds gets   
GeneAnthony
Mar 5, 2005, 22:57:00
 
The problem with Stallman is his EGO whi ...   RE:My problem is the amount of credit Torvalds get   
Lars
Mar 6, 2005, 10:13:59
 
> And that he's wrong on Minix isn&# ...   Re: Read The Article Please   
Ookaze BioACobol
Mar 6, 2005, 10:47:53
 
> It is evident you do not know what you ...   Re: Re: Read The Article Please   
R.L.
Mar 7, 2005, 08:05:46
 
** the [implied] Linux ZEALOTS need to u ...   Linux *realities*   
R.L.
Mar 7, 2005, 09:26:20
 
** EVERY Linux distro sucks, but do not  ...   whoops, forgotten a ... *reality*   
R.L.
Mar 7, 2005, 14:40:40
 
> ** EVERY Linux distro sucks, but do no ...   Re: whoops, forgotten a ... *reality*   
Tom Wickline
Mar 7, 2005, 16:22:41
 
> If you feel Distro's are letting y ...   Re: Re: whoops, forgotten a ... *reality*   
R.L.
Mar 7, 2005, 16:41:51
 
> > If you feel Distro's are letting ...   Re: Re: Re: whoops, forgotten a ... *reality*   
Tom Wickline
Mar 7, 2005, 17:23:25
 
> What do you Microsoft do-gooders think ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: whoops, forgotten a ... *reality*   
R.L.
Mar 7, 2005, 18:03:28
 
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