What makes Linux great?

[Leo J Mauler]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:42:08 -0600 DCT Jared <jsmith at datacaptech.com>
writes:
> >If you would be willing to take a survey I have put together, please 
> write me at lnq at microsoft.com.
> 
> Actually, be honest. YOU did not put the survey together. 
> You are paid to solicit survey respondents.
> 
> You are _paid_ to pretend to be a normal kclug subscriber.
> 
> All of us are here out of passion; you are here for profit.
> 
> Passion is what makes Linux great.
> 
> Take your guerilla marketing and go home, come back
> when you're for real. Until you are for real, you are unable
> to comprehend us who are.
> 
> -Jared

Yes.  A real savvy guy (probably outsourced by M$ since they don't have
any original thinkers at M$) would have come on here pretending to be a
new Linux start-up wanting to create the next big distro, and would have
asked "what makes Linux great?" in the pretend context of wanting to make
a really good distro.

After all the M$ FUD and the backlash from *real* Linux users, saying you
want to use Linux to make M$ better is rather like saying you want to use
Linux to make sarin gas better.  No one will really believe that you have
any good intentions at heart.

Besides, M$ has already used UNIX to make M$ better.  Users of DOS back
in the early 1980s will remember that the pipe feature was added to MSDOS
because users of both UNIX and MSDOS complained to M$ that DOS didn't
have it.  M$ even ran its own version of UNIX for awhile, Xenix.

M$ doesn't need to know anything from us.  All it needs is what it
already has: a huge marketing department to maintain its ILLEGAL (and
recognized by the courts as illegal) MONOPOLY, and a huge R&D budget to
buy everyone else's good ideas (note that I said an R&D *budget*, not a
R&D *department*).

They can't buy Linux so that avenue of M$-style "R&D" is just closed off
to them.

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