Paper I wrote detailing Linux as an alternative

Jeremy enigmax at toocool.com
Fri Apr 12 04:54:20 CDT 2002


>   But it doesn't answer why use a spell-checker but no human proofreader...
>
> >Linux is ready for the business desktop, it has been for years. Back
> > before you had desktops,
>
> >there where terminals; or more appropriately named 'dumb terminals.'
>
> ...because 'where' is an actual word, but I'm pretty sure not the one you
> meant to use there.  I don't normally pick apart people's spelling and
> grammar in a forum such as this, but a 'paper' implies a higher standard
> than mere email.
Agreed, I admit this passed by my attention and that of 8 other people (It 
gets hard to look closely at such things after 4 major revisions, but this is 
no excuse.)  Thanks for the grammar check.

-Jeremy




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