From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: +[SurvPC] a pro Linux article for those who need their bias reinforced on a regular basis :-)] Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:53:40 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031026145340.GA768@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: survpc@tmonroe.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Greetings, and a fantastic piece from Cringely that should be mandatory reading for every computer user in the world. 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 > Sent: Oct 25, 2003 6:37 AM > To: LifeRaft > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs