Linux "fanatacism"

[Collins Richey]

On 10/30/05, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> A post on the Asterisk users list sent me looking at Mobilix (now
> TuxMobil) and finally to an article on OReilleynet:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8231
>
> My favorite comment:
>
> * Running a Windows enterprise was like working in the emergency room
> of Cook County Memorial. Working on Linux was like being a Maytag
> repair man.
>

I, too, love the comment, and we can certainly relate to the reasoning
in the article, but the title really should be something like "Why the
geek loves Linux." This isn't written from the standpoint of a
businessman or joe six pack. Also, the geek oversimplifies the
reaction to M$ by the community. There are those (fortunately few in
number) in the Linux community who express an irrational hatred of  M$
as they despise all corporate undertakings, and this would be true
even without M$'s efforts to spread FUD. Not that there aren't other
purely rational reasons for hating M$.



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Collins Richey
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