I don't think it's total FUD. It's misinformation. More than that, since
when has anyone but a Mac or Linux fan ever written a "Why I hate M$
Winblows" article? You don't see that in M$ ...Oops, I mean 'PC'
Magazine, do you? Nope.
I think he's right about the whole Cost of Ownership thing: Red Hat and
Caldera are who he's talking about with the whole "Pricing" thing. They
want to charge "Per Seat" just like M$. It's actually reasonable to do
it that way. After all, you're paying for support, not the software
itself, right? Stupidly, though, he asks, "Who thought of that?" M$ is
who...
And then the Code Keys thing: He's just upset that Linux _users_ are
actually smarter than Windows _Programmers_. There's ten million times
more crackers in the Windblows world than in the Linux world. Besides,
the only thing illegal about it is that the copyright owners didn't want
anyone to crack the codes. There is actually no law against it. Illegal
copying is going to happen no matter what OS you've got. ***t happens...
You're right about the rest: very outdated. In fact, I've got an
OpenLinux 2.3 CD with the 2.2.10 kernel that installed just fine on my
486dx...very automatically...
My short list of retorts, that actually make more sense than the
original article.
Russell
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>From: bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com
>To: <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: [SLUG] another fud story
>Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2001, 12:58
>
> http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-5826907-7-6267608.html?tag=sd
> anyone want to set this guy straight? Perhaps he should come out to one of
> our meetings.
> He is out of touch with reality. As Derek replied to the other story
>
> "Unadulterated Junk."
>
> "He clearly didn't have a column ready so pulled some crap out from two
> or three years ago, edited it a bit, and re-posted it as a new column.
> Many of his "reasons" are invalid and the ones that aren't are purely
> opinion. It should have been called "Nine things I made up about Linux
> to pull in some web traffic."
>
> I say we set them straight. How ever I can tell you why this is almost a
> clone story
>
> Cnet owns Zdnet = CRUD Crazy , Redundant , Un-Educated, Dopes
>
> Anyways I guess the will have to learn the hard way.
>
> OBTW the guy with the 9 reasons crap check this new story out for a laugh.
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2779746,00.html?chkpt=
> zdhpnews02
>
> Bill Preece
>
>
>
>
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