Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Editorial Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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Amen To Dimitris
by The Dungbeetle on Thu 19th Dec 2002 01:36 UTC

Yeah that's why we fight, but, to further what you said, we've gotta use the effective methods of fighting. For example, the Linux community's reputation of badgering people and getting offended very easily is going to harm their case. The point is to help give the OS you think has the _least_inherent_flaws_ the best reputation (and the goods to back this reputation). There really are not many easier ways to trash Linux's reputation than to get in arguments over all kinds of things, to flame people simply for using a different distro of Linux or even a different window maker on Linux... it would be pathetic if Bill got a few more years on his high horse just because the Linux users bicker like little children. BTW, I am The Dungbeetle. And I don't say some of these things because I hate Microsoft.