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From: KHOO Guan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 11:13 PM
Subject: MIME as msg: was 5.1 Security Hole
>Yeah, I also wonder why people insist on using M$ in a list with so many
>anti-M$ postings.
I wonder why there have to be any anti Microsoft postings. It doesn't help
us technically or politically. It probably hurts us.
When I see a long anti-Microsoft paragraph in a Linux discussion forum,
whether that's a mailing list, a newsgroup, or a magazine article, the first
thing I wonder is how much Microsoft would have had to pay to do that much
damage to Linux.
When you do that, you alienate potential Linux users (and those who think
only propellerheads should use Linux are the reason why so few hardware
manufacturers give a crap about support for it) and give credence to the
folks who claim we're a bunch of anti-Microsoft activists who'd use any OS,
no matter how crappy, as long as it didn't come from Redmond.
I don't know about you, but if Linux didn't do a better job than NT for my
router/server at home, I just plain wouldn't use it there. If that makes me
a traitor to the cause, then so be it. If OS/2 did everything I needed it
to I'd have never switched, and if NT was cutting the mustard it'd still be
on that box.
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