Re: Wanting opinions...

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:47 -0500, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I have grown into a very avid linux user and a mild-mannered developer.
> That being said, I don't have a wide enough perspective to form a
> reasonable opinion about this article:
> http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html
> I'm curious as to what other people think. I'm especially interested in
> what people who have been using linux a lot longer than myself (going on
> 4 years soon...) think of it. So, as long as this isn't going to start a
> flame war, what is your perspective on what this guy has to say? 

Marketing and distro pissing -- even outside of Linux, even when
comparing to Windows -- just doesn't do any good.

People should state the benefits of their product or project in the
terms of that project, and not the negatives of another.

I see the same problem in politics.  People defining things not by the
merits of their choice, but what they hate about the other option.


-- 
Bryan J. Smith                                     b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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It is mathematically impossible for someone who makes more than you
to be anything but richer than you.  Any tax rate that penalizes them
will also penalize you similarly (to those below you, and then below
them).  Linear algebra, let alone differential calculus or even ele-
mentary concepts of limits, is mutually exclusive with US journalism.
So forget even attempting to explain how tax cuts work.  ;->



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