Chicago Sun-Times: Sorting Through the Linux Lie: What It Really Can Do | Linux Today

Chicago Sun-Times: Sorting Through the Linux Lie: What It Really Can Do

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 23, 2005

Pronouncement the First: As a user-level
operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly
to your house and personally deliver a $30,000 tax refund before
there’s a Linux that can challenge Windows or MacOS in terms of
usability. If anyone tells you otherwise, your only rebuttal should
be to administer that thing that Moe used to do to Larry–you know,
where he’d grab Larry’s nose with one hand and smack it down with
the other.

Pronouncement the Second: None of that
matters. Linux is still one of the best and most important
OS’s on the landscape…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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