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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First thing, I've yet to see a post from Marcelo that doesn't bash the US in some way
Secondly, Linux is fine if you have the time to spend with it. In fact most OS are fine if you have the time to spend with them. From what I can tell, most people that are new to linux think it blows because they have no idea how anything works. Further more when they try to learn they get overwhelmed because to do the one small think they want, they have to learn about 6 other big things first. The same thing happens in windows too, linux people are used to the whole configure once, run constantly. They aren't used to having to constantly check for viruses, clean out outlook express spam, get rid of spyware - so it annoys the hell out of them. Then there is Apple... being an Apple user I can tell you, everyone hates us. If its not because of Steve, then its either, our hardware, our OS, a one button mouse, or the people in the Apple store wear khakis. Again its the same thing people don't want to spend the time or the money to get used to something new. They want drop in replacements, that are "improvements".