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

[John Knight]

>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
>
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I'll agree with that, if you're going to tear off you shirt and write "ban 
the bomb" on your chest, you should do it for free software and its ideals, 
not a particular FSF programme.

tomato


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