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Article #7604excessive Linux advocacy (fwd)
From: Krzysztof G. Baranowski
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 20:26
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 20:26
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Czesc, moze wszyscy "fanatycy" wezma sobie co nieco do serca :) --- cut --- "Just before the demise of Commodore, a marketing executive for the company summarized what he thought led to the Amiga's failure to capture significant market share. He minced no words: `The fanatical element among our customer base hasn't done us any favors.' "The similarities between the Amiga camp and Linux users are striking. If a journalist writes an article about, say, printers, he or she may get several flaming letters from Amigoids complaining that mention of the Amiga was excluded from the review. Not only is the Amiga the best desktop publishing system on the market, they'd say, but you'd be an idiot to run anything else. And by the way, I know where you live. "Linux fanatics display similar zeal when they slam MS-DOS (MS-DOG), Windows (Windoze), Windows NT, and the people who use them. Never mind that your PC must be running MS-DOS before you can install Linux. [Of course that's not true but the point still stands. --ben] Also, never mind that DOSEMU and Wine, DOS and Windows emulators, are among the most touted achievements of Linux developers. Flames erupt frequently on the Usenet when a heretic suggests there's another OS worth running. Heated respondents pen pages of incendiary prose in reply. --- cut --- Kris ps. Followup -> p.c.o.advocacy -- Krzysztof G. Baranowski - Prezes Klubu Nieszkodliwych Manjaków "Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..." http://www.knm.org.pl/ <prezes@manjak.knm.org.pl>
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news-archive.icm.edu.pl!pingwin.icm.edu.pl!news.icm.edu.pl!uucp-gw.cyf.gov.pl!paa.gov.pl!manjak.knm.org.pl!kgb From: "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl> Newsgroups: pl.comp.os.linux,pl.comp.os.advocacy Subject: excessive Linux advocacy (fwd) Followup-To: pl.comp.os.advocacy Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 22:26:14 +0200 Organization: Klub Nieszkodliwych Manjakow Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980531222322.2628A-100000@manjak.knm.org.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: manjak.knm.org.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 X-FAQ-Is-At: http://www.knm.org.pl/knm-faq.txt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit