Libertarian Newspaper

[Dale Beams]

A farmer feeds his cattle hay.  Hay is hay.  There are types of hay, 
alfalfa, brome, sudan, millet, cane, sorghum, etc. to name a few.  A herds 
health is dependent upon not from feeding the cattle hay, but by feeding the 
cattle different types of hay.    An OS is an OS.  Destroying one OS in 
favor of another does not provide OS diversity.

If (competing OS) is a tree, and people are attacking the branches, and not 
the roots, some trees will grow back.  If you attack the roots and kill the 
tree, then you might feel you have succeeded.

Linux in it's current state however, is like a tree with roots, but with no 
branches.  A tree will not grow properly if it never has branches.  Branches 
as in software choices.  Currently I don't know of a way to put AutoCad (in 
it's updated form) on Linux.  There are many commercial software packages 
for windows where there is no equivalent for linux.

Cutting down the tree in your back yard on the west side of your house next 
to the patio window without having another in it's place is like destroying 
on OS in favor of another.

Leave the OS in front of the patio window, it will die in it's own time.  
Instead plant another to replace it and concentrate on norishing it and it's 
relationships with other companies.

Linux needs to quit worrying about "attacking" roots and begin worrying more 
about why it has no branches.

Just my two cents

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