You don't have to be a radical to rebel against a convicted monopoly. "I like Microsoft's products - I just got tired of some of their business practices," says Rodd Ahrenstorff of Maple Grove, Minn., the son of Midwestern farmers and a middle-income family man. "There's also something very appealing about free software." So about three months ago, Ahrenstorff cast his lot with a rabble of loosely allied computer hackers. He loaded a home computer with their free operating system, Linux, and proudly made himself Windows free. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020114/tech/14linux.htm The U.S. News & World Report issue of January 14, 2002 has an interesting article about Linux in the Science & Technology section. dave
Nice! Nice to see a mainstream publications with a favorable article about open source and Linux. Though, you cans still see a windows centric mindset, it's something that the mainstream "Joe Average" will see. And it's Joe average that has all the buying power, word of mouth, and end-user push or Karma. Thanks Curtis On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:57 pm, David Johanson wrote:
You don't have to be a radical to rebel against a convicted monopoly. "I like Microsoft's products - I just got tired of some of their business practices," says Rodd Ahrenstorff of Maple Grove, Minn., the son of Midwestern farmers and a middle-income family man. "There's also something very appealing about free software." So about three months ago, Ahrenstorff cast his lot with a rabble of loosely allied computer hackers. He loaded a home computer with their free operating system, Linux, and proudly made himself Windows free.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020114/tech/14linux.htm
The U.S. News & World Report issue of January 14, 2002 has an interesting article about Linux in the Science & Technology section.
dave
It does find some nice words about Linux, but it's still the old mantra of being harder to use... :( I really enjoyed this part: <quote> [...] the command line is the place to get under the hood, find the problem, and make the repair, assuming you work out which arcane commands are needed. Most Windows repairs, in contrast, can be made without tapping its rarely used command line. </quote> Have you ever fixed your car without going under the hood? Kindly stroking the hood doesn't really fix anything... A Windoze repair (is there such a thing?) is either a reboot and if that didn't work, a reinstallation... ;) Just my 2 €-cents... Hansen On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:57, David Johanson wrote:
You don't have to be a radical to rebel against a convicted monopoly. "I like Microsoft's products - I just got tired of some of their business practices," says Rodd Ahrenstorff of Maple Grove, Minn., the son of Midwestern farmers and a middle-income family man. "There's also something very appealing about free software." So about three months ago, Ahrenstorff cast his lot with a rabble of loosely allied computer hackers. He loaded a home computer with their free operating system, Linux, and proudly made himself Windows free.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020114/tech/14linux.htm
The U.S. News & World Report issue of January 14, 2002 has an interesting article about Linux in the Science & Technology section.
dave
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