On 18/06/05, michael norman
On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:08, Sid Boyce wrote:
Of course, but PHB's also talk to the likes of IBM and demand reference accounts when making decisions, also being ultra cautious people, they also suspect rants. Many install Linux in their shops without reference to the likes of IBM?Novell/RedHat and I doubt many of them have heard of Theo or BSD. Many have shunned BSD and Linux would never have got started if BSD was not seen as a sanctimonious and cleverer-than-thou elitist clique unwilling to accept contributions from lower forms of life. Theo has confirmed in the Forbes article what we always suspected he thought, that Linux is developed by lower life forms and used only by lower life forms. Another good read of a MS salesman putting the frighteners up a PHB with his own lies atop "Get The Lies". http://lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=18 I'm still waiting for the article that will claim that Linux will rot your teeth, eat your children and make any surviving children cook and eat their parents - it can't be far off. Regards Sid. --
If i was tempted to try BSD (which I'm not because I'd have to rearrange all my partitions to get an empty primary partition to put it on) I'm certainly not now.
Mike
The interesting bit of the article is this - "It's the vendors, not the developers, who need to slow down, and come out with carefully de-bugged and polished combinations of kernels and applications that work together well on a broad variety of hardware. No one would build an automobile with the latest engine, the latest transmission, the latest fuel system, without knowing whether or not they work well together. Yet a Linux vendor thinks nothing of literally slapping together the latest releases of every available component and calling it a distro." It may be unpalatable but if you step back and think hard about it this is a sensible enough paragraph. As for the rest of hte article though :-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR