It's worth remembering that free speech really refers to freedom from prior restraint. It means that no one should be able to prevent you from saying anything you darn well please. It does not mean that you should be able to say anything you want without any consequences.
For example, as an employer I would have no right to stop you from saying vile, racist things. But once you've said them, I have every right to decide that I don't want you representing my company.
The specific case here is a bit more complicated, but I think the principle applies.
The best book I found for people just starting out is Mark Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux." His book assumes that you have a working system and teaches you how to use it. It emphasises the command prompt, so it doesn't have much on X, but I found it invaluable for helping me get the basics down - chron, vi, ls, less, cat, grep, tar, etc.
A lot of the HowTo documents and man pages made a lot more sense to me after I read this book.
One of the things I find most interesting is that some of the commercials were not aimed at consumers. What does the typical individual buy from EDS, after all? Quite a few of the commercials were geared toward "business decision makers," who only represent a small fraction of the viewing audience. Interesting that it was worth spending that kind of money to reach a relatively small part of the Super Bowl audience.
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It's worth remembering that free speech really refers to freedom from prior restraint. It means that no one should be able to prevent you from saying anything you darn well please. It does not mean that you should be able to say anything you want without any consequences.
For example, as an employer I would have no right to stop you from saying vile, racist things. But once you've said them, I have every right to decide that I don't want you representing my company.
The specific case here is a bit more complicated, but I think the principle applies.
The best book I found for people just starting out is Mark Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux." His book assumes that you have a working system and teaches you how to use it. It emphasises the command prompt, so it doesn't have much on X, but I found it invaluable for helping me get the basics down - chron, vi, ls, less, cat, grep, tar, etc. A lot of the HowTo documents and man pages made a lot more sense to me after I read this book.
One of the things I find most interesting is that some of the commercials were not aimed at consumers. What does the typical individual buy from EDS, after all? Quite a few of the commercials were geared toward "business decision makers," who only represent a small fraction of the viewing audience. Interesting that it was worth spending that kind of money to reach a relatively small part of the Super Bowl audience.