[H-GEN] Linux Advocacy [was: Question from a wannabe Linux newbie.]

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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"Patrick Nichols" <pat at mutton.dyndns.org> writes:

> Acting in a superior way, belittling competing products, and
> generally scorning other ways of doing things isn't the best way to
> show that Linux (and other Unix based systems) is the way of the
> future.

Nitpick:  Unix and Linux aren't the way of the future.  They're the
way of the past.

> Showing people in a professional manner, explaining with rational
> arguments and letting people know what we do best is.

Some people are not on the list to convince anyone about the relative
merits of anything.

I view the deliberate misspellings, when I notice them, as a evidence
of a semi-affectionate "love-hate" relationship with the product in
question.  

Since Microsoft Windows[1] has the largest market share, it's only
natural that it will have the lion's share of the nicknames; and since
this is a Unix- and Linux-oriented list, it's only natural you'll see
them used here.

[1] : It'd appear that even Microsoft can't decide what to call their
      products these days.
-- 
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