Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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Well said, but hard to say because of who needs to hear it. The fact is, you aren't going to be able to silence those who want to make it Linux vs. Microsoft, or Why Isn't Linux Exactly Like Windows, because these arguments aren't really about Linux at all; they are about money. After all, most people I know who enjoy Linux never give a second thought to Microsoft and haven't probably ever even run XP. Most people I know who use Linux like their OS just the way it is, and would rather deal with problems from the standpoint of "Can we get ACPI running in Linux? My laptop doesn't work right otherwise" rather than "Windows has decent ACPI support, Linux is sucky by comparison, how sad and masochistic I must be to use my crippled OS."