Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Of course by inserting zealot here you've answered your own question. > I didn't mean that everyone who uses linux is a zealot. I do my own backups to a linux server. But "linux zealot" does cover some of the attitudes that you meet, on this list and elsewhere. There are plenty of people whose attitude to any problem is that linux or OSS is the solution. This is silly, wrong and aggravating; and if it is silly and wrong of me to be aggravated by it, I'm sorry. > Now if you remove the zealot part I'll say they care very much after > interoperability. They support multiple non-Linux filesystems, have > samba, wine, etc. No one in the industry has gone so far to communicate > gracefully with other systems, except perhaps the BSDs (and I doubt BSDs > have such a strong commitment, as they have a much more limited focus). > Yes. Some people who use and improve Linux do care a lot about interoperability. Some of the users -- who don't, in my limited observation, improve it much -- think that all interoperability problems would be solved if only everyone used their favourite software. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
