[plug] FAQ - alpha release

[Leon Brooks]

Hook wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dave T Burbidge wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > Greetings!
> > >
> > > Umm ... is iiNet Linux friendly? OK, so I can log in, but one time I
> >
> > iiNet is actually a very confused and strange company. So much so I am
> actually
> > suprised anything gets done there. I always dread communicating with them.
> They
> > actually use linux a fair bit for their equipment (their cityspan client
> side
> > box is a small linux box).
> 
> They actually run pretty much *everything* on linux.

That's how they started out. They actually made some pretty significant
contributions to Squid development back in the early days, defined as ``the days
when even their front-desk machines all ran Linux'' and
michael at metal.iinet.net.au had a hand in running things. Since Mike cashed in
and shipped out, iiNet's become pretty disoriented.

I'm reasonably sure that everyone on the list who has had any serious hand in
running an ISP can recall having customers join their ISP mainly beause ``you're
not owned by iiNet''. Sad but true. I think most orgnisations have a critical
mass, above which they cry out for parthenogenisis and meanwhile wallow in
disorganisation. AOL immediately flashes to mind.

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