On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 17:24, Tom Cook wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > > > On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > > > > > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > > > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe > > > the > > > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux > > > user when confronted by the following terminology: > > > > > > Windows; Microsoft; Bill Gates; Windows 95; Microsoft Office; Exchange; > > > Microsoft Internet Information Server; Windows XP; DOS; OS/2; .NET; Visual
OS/2 ???? That is one of _IBM_'s great products (even though the 1.x series started out jointly written with MSFT). Too bad the the OS/2 & linux system paradigms are so different. Presentation Manager _rocks_. Shows how powerful an Object Environment can be... > > > Basic ... > > > > Not quite Casper. Bigotry is a hatred of a race of people (interesting > > that we're not just all "human", bigotry is built into the language it would > > seem) because they are different. Hating someone or something because it's > > different is moronic. We dislike Microsoft because they suck, not because > > they're different. ;-) > > Well, they are different, but our dislike is based on the merits of the > software, not some blind belief that we are superior. >From what I've heard, there is a larger genetic difference among species of monkeys than there are between the human races. Contrast that with how different Linux and NT (and OS/2) are. OS/2 and NT have similar concepts, yet OS/2 is great (see above) and NT sucks. (That, and the fact that MSFT is an unrepentant criminal monopolist.) _That_ is the reason so many people have strong reactions against MSFT... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+
