osOpinion: Bashing When Prompted

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]

“Almost everyone I asked thought Linux was invented for the
purpose of fighting Microsoft. No long lines for using the computer
at Helsinki University, no i386 study project, no fun-loving
hackers who leapt at the opportunity of working at a GNU-based
OS. No. Just Microsoft-bashing, that’s what Linux is
for….”

“Every frustrated OS group wonders why the world hasn’t
switched, and forms the typical answers: the Mac is great, but PC
users probably don’t want to get stuck with Apple’s hardware; Linux
is too difficult to install and use; BeOS is a tiny minority
player, with so little guarantee of working on your hardware; etc
etc….”

“THIS is the advantage of Linux! This, not stability (get
Solaris or AIX, they’re rock-solid too) or No-MS (go MacOS or
FreeBSD or BeOS, they’re No-MS enough). The ability to add, at
will, a feature which I need to a program. If you’re not a
programmer, you can hire a programmer to add the feature, which is
perfectly legal, provided you do not make the addition proprietary
to you.”

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