On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Andy Sy wrote: > > You sure you want to stir up a hornet's nest? Nothing will make us > > happier than to enlighten your misguided ideas. > > Haha, you just confirmed my assertion that Linux users > tend to be religious zealots. That's ok. Just don't go > crashing any planes into buildings. :-) > > Fwiw, I like Linux too, I'm just trying to balance the > viewpoint that many people have of Windoze as sucking > like hell. It doesn't and it's excellent. (Except > for the fact that it is neither free nor open-source) > > A lot (read: A lot, *NOT ALL*) of the Windoze-smearing going > on around is FUD too! And this time it's from the Linux camp. > (no, using Linux and parroting Stallman's views does not > automatically make you a holy or wise person or even "l33t" - > there are now a LOT of Linux-using lamer wanna-bes out there > now that it has become friendlier). Don't get me wrong I think > much of MS' business tactics stink worse and a lot of their > other software also sucks (but not their OS). >
Well 'FUD' slinging can only come from 'aggrieved' parties. Those that have much to loose from products such as linux. Linux is the result of a more than 10-year itch to make public an operating system that is 'free' (as in free speech), and can be tweaked any which way by those using it. The apparent FUD coming from the Linux camps is not FUD, but TRUTH, because if Microsoft products were truly as good as their makers claim to be, there would be no need for Linux today. Linux people have no need to activley throw FUD at microsoft products because they don't need to. The outstanding bugs of the microsoft products themselves is enough. But you are right, XP is getting much much better. Maybe it's about time because believe it or not, people actually pay HARD EARNED MONEY for purchasing the product and the user licenses attached to it. It would be so much of a shame for XP to still come out as inferior to its open source counterparts which are totally FREE, in every sense of the word. This situation of payware being technologically inferior to open source equivalents should STOP! But hey, is Microsoft capable of ensuring that it actually happens? _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
