Troll!
Sometime just before Sunday 30 June 2002 09:59 am Dennis Eberl Wrote
about:[EUG-LUG:3179] BSD/Linux logo - slug line revised
: On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 09:11 AM, Dennis Eberl wrote:
: > Ok, some asshole had to say it: "Buy an eMac fast, the rest in the trash!
: > "
: >
: > LOL! Lighten up guys.
: >
: > Dennis
:
: <snip>
:
: "Buy an eMac in a flash,
: toss the rest in the trash."
:
: One more:
:
: "Linux -- an operating system so great you can't even give it away!"
:
: I am only half serious, but perspective helps.
:
: You can't explain Microsoft's success as the mere result of the buying
: public's stupidity (true) and Microsoft's relentless campaign of arm
: twisting and FUD (both tue). Obviously Microsoft responds to a need
: purchasers have. If the Linux community could define and address that need
: (which for reasons not worth belaboring it cannot, for it is built on the
: wrong "economic model"), it would be in a position to offer real
: competition to Microsoft. IMHO, it never will.
:
: As it is, and this is certainly wonderful and from my perspective an
: outstanding and no doubt long lived step forward, BSD, Linux et alia will
: remain the favorites of programmers and web site administrators, but will
: not even ever succeed as the favorite operating system of the poor, for the
: poor are for the most part people who want what those who are not poor
: have, which is -- you guessed it! -- Windoze.
:
: By the way, I have a clean hardcover copy or Eric Raymonds "Cathedral..."
: essays for sale if anyone is interested. Nice myth. Guess which of the two
: words I would emphasize?
:
: I hope you take this as the non-maliscious observation, possibly wrong, of
: someone succumbing to the temptation to play devil's advocate. It is not
: meant to demean or attack Linux, BSD, open source, or any of the more
: ardent members of EUG-LUG. The open source movement is an intelligent,
: needed alternative to purely commercial software that has, I believe, a
: _permanent_ place in the future of worldwide computing. I just don't think
: it is the path to universal brotherhood, world peace, or the everlasting
: Holy Grail.
:
: FWIW!?
:
: Dennis Eberl
