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Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-what-if-i-wanna dept.

gondwannabe writes "Here are Five Things You Aren't Allowed to Discuss About Linux. With considerable chutzpa, an insightful Rob Enderle takes on what he considers five dogmas in the OSS community and explains why they're wrong. Examples: Linux is secure, "communes" actually work in the long haul, and that Linux is "pro-developer."

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  1. Re:Irony by rizzle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Site's already down?

  2. Re:wacky, stupid, hypocritical .... by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux is a kernel.

    I'm sick of hearing that. So, what is OS X? What is Windows? What is FreeBSD? What is Solaris?

    Linux is many things, and what it is to you, might be something different to other people. Linux runs everything from "supercomputers" to picture frames, and Linux means something different to all of those people.

    For what its worth, Linus is more proud to find out that his new picture frame he bought for his wife runs linux than a supercomputer.

  3. Re:Site is slow - here's the text by rbanffy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. The man is a complete idiot.

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