So you assume that whatever is published in Outlook magazine is
Gospel? Get a life Atul.
-- Raju
>>>>> "Atul" == Atul Chitnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Atul> I just received the latest issue of the Outlook magazine.
Atul> It has a big article on Linux in it - mostly positive, but
Atul> it starts *very* badly:
Atul> "Last fortnight, when one man in this Delhi lug (Linux Users
Atul> Group) pointed out that Windows has its good points too, he
Atul> was beaten up and thrown out of the meeting by Linux
Atul> fundamentalists."
Atul> --- ARINDAM MUKHERJEE
Atul> (http://www.outlookindia.com/issue3/businessrl1.htm)
Atul> Hey ILUG-Delhi - what the hell is this?
Atul> Why do people try to boost Linux on the basis of bashing
Atul> Microsoft? It does not speak well of Linux or Linux users if
Atul> they are seen as rowdy, intolerant facists. Making casual
Atul> jokes about Windows and/or Microsoft is all good and fine,
Atul> but doing something like this is asking for big-time
Atul> trouble. Do you think Linus Torvalds would approve of
Atul> something like this?
Atul> Linux is an operating system that grew out of cooperation
Atul> between people. It cooperates with any other OS under the
Atul> sun, *including* Windows. To be seen as anti-Windows is to
Atul> drive a stake through Linux' heart.
Atul> We haven't worked so hard and so long to help Linux grow,
Atul> just to have some hormone-saturated script-kiddies destroy
Atul> all the goodwill Linux has earned. If the story reported is
Atul> really true, then whoever did that should be thoroughly
Atul> ashamed of themselves for sullying the name of Linux this
Atul> way.
Atul> Atul
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