Let's analyze a day in your life, with regards to Linux, shall we?
You check your email. Chances are your ISP is on a *nix server, quite possibly Linux.
You make a withdrawal from an ATM. The network that serves the ATM system is also probably *nix, possibly Linux. You USE THE INTERNET AT ALL!!!! Without Linux, and *nix in general, the Internet would not exist. Period. I can write/. comments at 3am because Linux doesnt need to be rebooted every 6 hours or so.
Without those "shitty tiny webservers", your life would seem positivly archaic (well, archaic from the point of view of a/.er).
Josh Paulik "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
Ok, prepare for a rant. I'm just as paranoid as the next guy...well, rather I THOUGHT I was...but anyway. Why is it that religion seems to always find it vitally important that we not progress science and technology? Remember the whole huge deal about human cloning? Some religous freaks (not to offend all you perfectly adjusted religious people out there...just talking to the freaks) hear the words "human cloning" and think of vats of mindless zombies. Now they hear about waerable computing and think Big Brother. The simple answer for you cult...I mean, concerned individuals is: don't get one. You don't have to spoil everyone else's fun by lobbying Congress or starting a massive letter-writing campaign. I say "letter-writing" rather than e-mail, since we all know e-mail is a vast government/satanic conspiracy to make us dependent on electronic devices so that they can take over the world.
Now, if you follow my advice and just don't get one, instead of grinding technological research to a halt because of a millenia-old book, you can simply yell at us individually that we're serving the satanic government. And we can pretend to listen while we play Quake in our sunglasses:)
Josh Paulik "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
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You check your email. Chances are your ISP is on a *nix server, quite possibly Linux.
You make a withdrawal from an ATM. The network that serves the ATM system is also probably *nix, possibly Linux. You USE THE INTERNET AT ALL!!!! Without Linux, and *nix in general, the Internet would not exist. Period. I can write /. comments at 3am because Linux doesnt need to be rebooted every 6 hours or so.
Without those "shitty tiny webservers", your life would seem positivly archaic (well, archaic from the point of view of a /.er).
Josh Paulik
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
Ok, I have to apologize for that one. Shoot me too.
Josh Paulik
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"
Now, if you follow my advice and just don't get one, instead of grinding technological research to a halt because of a millenia-old book, you can simply yell at us individually that we're serving the satanic government. And we can pretend to listen while we play Quake in our sunglasses :)
Josh Paulik
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"