The thrill of linux is not that it is messy or doesn't "look nice." That's absurd. One of the biggest thrills of linux to me is that it gives me OPTIONS. I can choose from a dozen different distributions, a dozen different window managers, for a complete desktop I can chose KDE or GNOME. I can scale Linux. It can run on my Palm Pilot, or my Screaming P450 server.
I personally do want to see linux dominate the world and crush microsoft. The beauty of Open Source is that when that happens, even if it happens through a company like Red Hat becoming more mainstream, releasing a new version every two years, giving in to the shareholders, etc. Even if they were to become Evil and if Bill Gates himself were to own Red Hat, even then, we'd still have the source.
I'd love to have a chip in my arm. Think linux could be ported to some kind of medical implant? Then I could sit in #weirdness on the undernet and tout the fact that BitchX is running in my biceps.
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Linux is not Tom Bombadil, it's Gandalf who will
smite Microsoft's ass with fireworks.
The thrill of linux is not that it is messy
or doesn't "look nice." That's absurd. One
of the biggest thrills of linux to me is that
it gives me OPTIONS. I can choose from a dozen
different distributions, a dozen different
window managers, for a complete desktop I can
chose KDE or GNOME. I can scale Linux. It can
run on my Palm Pilot, or my Screaming P450 server.
I personally do want to see linux dominate the
world and crush microsoft. The beauty of Open
Source is that when that happens, even if it
happens through a company like Red Hat becoming
more mainstream, releasing a new version every
two years, giving in to the shareholders, etc.
Even if they were to become Evil and if Bill Gates
himself were to own Red Hat, even then, we'd
still have the source.
I'd love to have a chip in my arm. Think linux could be ported to some kind of medical implant?
Then I could sit in #weirdness on the undernet and
tout the fact that BitchX is running in my biceps.