Re: +[SurvPC] a pro Linux article for those who need their bias reinforced on a regular basis :-)]

Re: +[SurvPC] a pro Linux article for those who need their bias reinforced on a regular basis :-)]

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings, and a fantastic piece from Cringely that should be
mandatory reading for every computer user in the world. <g> IMHO.

No disrespect to Linus, of course, but he should have also mentioned
Richard Stallman, and so many others, plus the FSF, Free Software
Foundation (GNU) and it's "copyleft" support, without which it would
not have happened..

We might also add Commodore Business Machines, Inc., a Micro$oft type
wanabee, albeit only hardware, with it's one time try for complete
domination but, at least, producing the Vic20 which waxed Linus's
interest during the dawn of it all...

All in all, it's been an interesting ride that will continue.

Cheers,

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
                Proprietary  Formats  Unacceptable


On 10-25, cornelius wrote:
> yeah, thanks for the picker-upper :-)
> 
> that really is an excellent an article. it should be abundantly
> obvious by now that the new model has wings.
> 
> cornelius 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JohnO <norami@unlimited.net>
> Sent: Oct 25, 2003 6:37 AM
> To: LifeRaft <survpc@tmonroe.com>
> Subject: +[SurvPC] a pro Linux article for those who need their bias reinforced on a regular basis :-)
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031023.html
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