Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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The article was very good and basicly dead on.
For boot times he's right, I have never had any distro boot on any of my computers in less thena few minutes, nor have a seen it on any others. Using all sorts of hacks to get it booting fast doesn't count, its the out of the box setup that does. And for differances in times between distros, one more reason for their to be one distro.
"I see articles like this and I think that many americans still not understand the "free" in "free software" concept... "
What you miss is people know what you are talking about. But majority of people realize it simple doesn't matter. And a few people who get bent out of shape about software being "free" doesn't matter to the rest. Also if it is simple the miss understanding of the word free thats the FSF and GNU's problem. It's not the worlds fault those groups highjacked a word that is used for one thing and try to twist its meaning into something it doesn't do well. Stick with open source for open source and free for as in no cost. Don't use free to mean opensource.