Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Linux | Linux Today

Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2007

[ Thanks to Michael J. Jordan for this
link. ]

“Browsing around Digg the other day, I saw one of these terrible
articles about Linux. I hate to even mention these pieces of
internet litter because I’d really like to avoid giving them more
legitimacy than they deserve. It’s one of those pieces that
includes a variation on the expression ‘[n] Reasons’ in the title,
where ‘n’ is the number of arguments the author came up with before
he ran out of ideas. Digg users must like these ‘[n] Reasons’
entitled pieces, as they seem to proliferate so much over
there.

“It was written by one Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (who I will refer
to from here on as Mr. [n]-Hughes to save space) and was posted as
a ‘blog’ entry on one of the many Ziff-Davis websites…”

Complete
Story

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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