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** Reply to message from "Bill Sheehan" <b.sheehan@neu.edu> on Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:08:20 -0400 **Good press, however, demands that any conflict be between two clearly **different and preferably opposite forces. They'd prefer to cast the whole **thing as a football game: the Rebel Rednecks of RedHat vs. the Neibelung **Dwarves of Nuremburg. This is true as far as it goes... It's also an idea the "press" has that Linux is so fragmented it will never ever be a viable alternative to windows.. in fact , it would be better if it just disappeared ( Granted not all the media feel this way, but enough do to make certain Linux gets more "bad" press than good ...) effectively slowing down the desktop adoption by fearful business folk.. Convinced it is just too difficult for the "average Joe" to understand , and that it will slowdown "production" in het workplace, it might ever require a rethink from timid corporate types. Let's face it , Linux has always been thought of as soem sort of "semi-religeous mystery" only useable by priests and bishops. And it pleases some to keep it so. We've all seen thissort of quote "I don't want to have my mom use the same OS I do, It just isn't right" Well w/ the current crop of guis, everyone's mum, can use it, especially in a controlled environment , like a business ! **The Linux wars aren't, and Powell isn't John Dvorak. Too True ! j