[geeks] The best things in the world

[Phil Stracchino]

Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 2008/9/12 Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>:
> 
>> Joost van de Griek wrote:
>>
>>> [Red Hat] Linux is the Windows of the OSS world.
>> There, I fixed that for you...   :)
>>
>> (Actually, I think it's Gnome and KDE that are at fault, trying to be a
>> better Windows than Windows.  Red Hat is trying to be the Microsoft of OSS.)
> 
> I think Linux is the Windows of the OSS world, in the sense that its
> users seem to think it's the only thing that matters, if not the only
> thing in existence. The disregard for standards (and common practices)
> that they get away with purely because of market dominance.

Ah, yes, in that context.  Yup, there's a lot of Linux fanboys out there
who are, well, just as rabid as a lot of the Mac zealots who consider
the Mac to be the only computer worth owning, because, like, it's a MAC,
dude!


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