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Linux Today Readers Speak: Foiling Your Sysadmin, Monopoly, Mono, and Linux Is a Kernel, Dangit!As always, one of the best features of Linux Today is the excellent reader comments. Here is a sampling of some recent gems; I can't share all the comments that I think are good, so be sure to cruise them your own selves when you have time: Padma - Subject: Re: How old ... ( May 20, 2009, 19:00:46 ) "I remember working on a mainframe a couple of decades ago (non-UNIX). I worked in a systems shop, and we had the same problem, even then. We ran a utility that checked the access time of all files, and sent a copy of the report (broken down by section) to each section, asking them to archive files unused for over 90 days. C. Whitman - Subject: Re: Hi, this is the human race ( May 12, 2009, 13:41:42 ) "If you actually read the article, the author clearly states that, though Linux is technically a kernel rather than an OS, this is not the point of the article. The point of the article is that what we do refer to as the operating system, whether you call it "Linux" or "GNU/Linux," is really just a framework to build an operating system from rather than a specific operating system... cjm - Subject: Intellectual dishonesty/honesty ( May 20, 2009, 15:29:40 ) "But being forced to pay Microsoft for products we don't use -- or conversely -- being forced to pay Microsoft in order to interact with our government of the people, by the people, and for the people, are examples of an unacceptable situation. Jose_X - Subject: Still confused on degree of risk of mono.. apparently ( May 26, 2009, 16:55:53 )
"The main difference with Samba is that Samba is a product. It is not a development tool to create (infest) new applications. This is not a perfect analogy, but it gets to some core problems with mono.
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