Re: Interesting story about Linus

[Sean /The RIMBoy/ <sean@rimboy.com>]

This is my reponse to the same article as posted on NLUG.  Steve hit some
other good points.  At the same time someone on NLUG pointed out that this
is the annual Is Linus a bad thing story.

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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:06:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean /The RIMBoy/ <sean@rimboy.com>

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, GirlJunkMail wrote:

> http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/desktop/news/PIT20010127S0002

FUD ALARM!

I find this interesting in a month when Baldy Bigmouth Ballmer (certified
clown w/out makeup) announced that MS was afraid of Linux.  As predicted,
this was the exact type of journalism expected in light of that
announcement.  Read page 2 paragraph 7 in regards to IBM's pledge.  It is
clear that the author does not understand what Linux is.  He just says
linux needs to make a profit.  Um, Linux is the kernel.  I'm not going to
get into the gnu jihad end of things, but it is clearly the alarm I look
for when a reporter does not undertand the topic at hand.  

I could go on and on in pointing out what else is wrong with the article,
but I know we know it is FUD.

Can Linus do things better?  Yes.  Would we be where we are without
him?  No.  

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