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

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:29:14PM -0500, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> "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.

You say that as though the two are mutually exclusive. Hopefully they're
not; I wouldn't want to find myself trying to decide which heading
encompasses, eg, breathing.

(Or do you have an alternative for the "way of the future"? Of the
commercially available OSes, Windows seems the only realistic, non-Unix
candidate; and I don't think I've seen any research OSes that look likely
to take the title recently)

> > 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.

True, but the above could also be the beginning of a sentence that ends
"the best way of demonstrating a high degree of knowledge, skill and
courtesy, and ensuring your ideas are dealt with on a professional level,
rather than being dismissed as the inane ramblings of the prejudiced
and bitter".

Although I do have a long held affection for "Lunix".

Followups to chat, I guess.

Cheers,
a "embettered, not embittered" j

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred.

    ``Australian Linux Lovefest Heads West''
                   -- linux.conf.au, Perth W.A., 22nd-25th January 2003
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