"I was obviously standing in the wrong place, because I could not help overhearing a group of IT professionals speaking about Linux. Few, if any, had positive words. In most cases they mentioned the word Linux and let out bellowing laughs. Then there were the Linux jokes, mocking the Linux founder Linus Torvalds, laughing up the pronunciation.
"So with a disheartened and rather discouraged feeling, I stepped into the foray with a basic but earnest question. 'What about Google...?'"
