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Chicago Tribune: A Rebellious Reaction to the Linux Revolution

“Furthermore, Microsoft Windows 2000, which made its debut in
Chicago at last week’s Comdex computer show, is a much more useful
personal computer operating system than the dinky feature-weak,
application-starved flavor of home-brewed Unix known as Linux.”

“As someone just about twice Torvalds’ age and in posession of
well less than half his computer programming ability, I’ve got this
to say: Harrumph!”

Typo left intact. –dw

“They chafe at the fact that most of us are prisoners of the
Microsoft model, working in jobs where the Windows desktop has
become our home away from home and where our daily bread is earned
working in Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and other Microsoft
software.”


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