[plug] Linux Enthusiasm - Are we over the top?

[The Thought Assassin]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Craig Foster wrote:
> Has anyone read the Tom's Hardware article regarding AMD?
> It talks about AMD kicking the underdog image and stepping up as a
> serious CPU contender. Do people think Linux will always stay relatively
> small, because it's cooler to be the underdog?

No. If and when Linux becomes the overdog, the underdog will be... some
pretty-much-compatible fork from the Linux tree.

> Are we Linux fans coming across too obsessive about what is just another
> operating system?

Some people are too obsessive, yes, but mostly because they don't know
what they should be obsessive about: Linux is just another operating
system from a purely technical POV, but it is the OS vanguard of the Free
Software concept, which _is_ very different, and very much superior to
what has gone before. Linux is just technology, possibly better than its
competitors at this instant in time, but still only technology and not
worth obsessing over. Free Software is the reason behind the success of
Linux, and will be behind the success of the next OS-de-jour, and the
next - it is a concept, and so timeless, and so worthy of obsession.

-Greg