"Several who commented or emailed me directly about my article
are upset with my views, and some even degraded themselves to the
point of launching negative personal attacks against me, which,
given the fact that they don't know me demonstrates the type of
fervor I mentioned earlier–albeit in a less-than-becoming
fashion. There were those, however, that supported my views and
thanked me for speaking what many of us in the Linux community view
as the ugly truth about our own community.
"A few people have challenged me to show proof of my claims that
Linux is not superior to Microsoft Windows. Let me note here that
at no time did I say Windows was better than Linux; what I have
stated and will continue to state is that both operating systems
compliment weaknesses in the other, and when peered together in the
enterprise provide a very flexible and robust computing
environment. My argument then was that the list of proposed
"reasons" to provide to executive management for the complete
replacement of Windows with Linux were flawed and biased. My point
was that the Linux community is perceived as spending more time
trying to destroy Microsoft than they do advancing Linux and open
source initiatives."
