Brent DeShazer wrote:
>
> One Day
> One World
> ----> One Operating System <----
> An Army of Geeks
>
> OK, I'm pumped on the Linux Demo day idea...think its great! And I love the OS,
> no doubt about it. But does anyone else besides me have a problem with the
> indicated line above from the web page? It seems to come off really M$-ish... I
> think its great that Linux is really taking off, but do any of us really want to
> see a world with "One Operating System" (or even one Linux distro)? Not me, even
> if that OS was Linux.
It could be perceived that way. It sounds to me like it's indicating
that we're
pushing for Linux for one day(we being the army of geeks :) ).
>
> The great thing about linux is it appears to be the first real threat to M$. Do
> I want to see M$ destroyed?
That could be fun....
> make a decent product (last one IMHO was DOS...hey, it worked!).
It wasn't real fun getting it out of the master boot record to install
Linux though, I had to look up the dos command in my slakware book...
> Linux is primarily the work of volunteers who give their software away will
> hopefully prevent it from being sucked into the vast black hole that is the
> current M$ Corp. Hopefully M$ will spend their $$$ on improving their product
> instead of trying to kill Linux with marketing and FUD.
Maybe after Linux shows the computing world a thing or two. Right now
they have
their little Linux strike force going....
>
> Maybe I'm over-reacting here or mis-interpreting...I just think that it's really
> important for us to project the right image for this thing for it to be a
> success.
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