Introducing Linux to Joe Average

eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"

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So many funny quotes

[debilo]

Check these out:

Torvalds, now a 34-year-old tech superstar whom some see as the love child of Thomas Edison and Che Guevara,...

"Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire,'" Torvalds told The New York Times last year. "I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

"In a school, it's public money. How should it be spent? Is it ethical to buy software instead of hiring an art teacher? Me, I want an art teacher--not the Microsoft help assistant dancing on every student's desktop.

"Why spend billions," said one Amazon tech guru at the time, "when you can spend millions?"

So funny. I'd post more quotes but I'm too lazy too read the rest of the article. :)

Target Acquired

[kfg]

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything. . .

Rain?

KFG

Re:Anything would be better than....

[darnok]

> Sure, most of us are pretty damn ugly but there's
> gotta be a few photogenic nerds among us. With
> good stories, too.

No, there aren't, at least not to Joe Average.

When one of us sleeps with J Lo, then we've got a good story

Re:Real world vs. fanboy fantasies

[bj8rn]

These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from

Aye, I tried smashing them with a wooden hammer, but after a few hits, the sodden thing was in pieces! Then I tried a bigger one, but to no avail. Then I decided to test my brand new diamond-head drill, but it wouldn't even leave a mark on these numbers! "Bloody hell," I said. And threw the numbers into a furnace. And when I took them out, they were bloody hot (I almost lost my left thumb because of a number 5) and there were some weird markings to be seen on them -- I guess my diamond-head drill still did some damage ;7

Re:Paul thurrott blames *ix for MyDoom!

[HeghmoH]

He does have a point.

If every mail server on the internet ran Windows, e-mail would never work well enough to function as the vector for a worm.