Why do people insist on bringing religion into everything. In my opinion, FWIW, Linus Torvalds is more like Brian (from "The Life of..."). A bunch of people who just *have* to have someone to worship have latched onto him.
News flash : Linus is a hacker, guys, not a messiah.
As for ESR, he's doing a PR job and as such says PR-man type things, one of which is to insist that it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Take with a grain of salt, but I think there's some truth in his complaint, and I know that if I was in his shoes I'd want to get back to coding as soon as possible.
(I'm tempted to add that if you want to look for someone with a messiah complex you're more likely to find them in the FSF, but that would just be flame bait;)
I think a more interesting test would be to sit someone in front of a PC with Linux installed and get them to install Win98 on it without wrecking the Linux installation. That would provide the mirror image to all these Linux installation articles.
Anyone tried this (say with a VA machine which had Linux preinstalled)?
No, you're not missing anything. L.A.M.E. has been parading this silly thesis wherever he can for ages now. Each time it gets shot down he moves on to somewhere else and spouts the same nonsense. Basically, L.A.M.E. is a classic net.kook and your analysis is right on the mark.
Sounds like a variation on the old Microwriter from the '80s. It never really caught on, although its supporters were very enthusiastic and claimed that it was easy to learn how to use.
Me, I just don't like the idea of using chords to input text. Hmm, thinking about it I suppose using a shift or control key counts as a chord, so I use them already. Oh well, what's that quote about consistency and small minds:^)
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Here you go : http://www.silcom.com/~scooter/bofh/bofh_index.htm l
>Did you just make this up by yourself?
;) Of course we have a sacred kernel instead of a sacred gourd...
Guilty - it just seemed to fit
Why do people insist on bringing religion into everything. In my opinion, FWIW, Linus Torvalds is more like Brian (from "The Life of..."). A bunch of people who just *have* to have someone to worship have latched onto him.
;)
News flash : Linus is a hacker, guys, not a messiah.
As for ESR, he's doing a PR job and as such says PR-man type things, one of which is to insist that it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Take with a grain of salt, but I think there's some truth in his complaint, and I know that if I was in his shoes I'd want to get back to coding as soon as possible.
(I'm tempted to add that if you want to look for someone with a messiah complex you're more likely to find them in the FSF, but that would just be flame bait
I think a more interesting test would be to sit someone in front of a PC with Linux installed and get them to install Win98 on it without wrecking the Linux installation. That would provide the mirror image to all these Linux installation articles.
Anyone tried this (say with a VA machine which had Linux preinstalled)?
>Am I missing something here?
No, you're not missing anything. L.A.M.E. has been parading this silly thesis wherever he can for ages now. Each time it gets shot down he moves on to somewhere else and spouts the same nonsense. Basically, L.A.M.E. is a classic net.kook and your analysis is right on the mark.
Sounds like a variation on the old Microwriter from the '80s. It never really caught on, although its supporters were very enthusiastic and claimed that it was easy to learn how to use.
:^)
Me, I just don't like the idea of using chords to input text. Hmm, thinking about it I suppose using a shift or control key counts as a chord, so I use them already. Oh well, what's that quote about consistency and small minds
Al Gore recently claimed to have invented the internet.