Oh, come on. It's people like you who give us geeks a bad name.
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You make me sick. Read the damned article, he's not making linux look bad. I happen to know him as well, he's a perfectly good writer, and happens to be knowledgable, unlike *ahem* others.
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I looked at that article, it happened to be the father of one of my friends, so I called him and had a lengthy conversation. I asked if he wanted to be interviewed, apparently the thousands of e-mails he recieved deterred him:)
Anyway, many of the replies here, and the contents of the e-mails sent to him suggest that most people either didn't read the article, or read it with the "Is Linux Dead?" line in mind. That's not the point of the article. His point is that linux still faces the problem of attracting the home user who doesn't want to sit at his computer looking at a bash shell, he wants an attractive, user-friendly OS. Distributions like Red Hat certainly cater to this, but one other hardship convincing the home user that Linux is the way to go, rather than Microsoft's products. I suggest that all who are accusing the author of being biased first re-read the article from an objective perspective.
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Oh, come on. It's people like you who give us geeks a bad name.
You make me sick. Read the damned article, he's not making linux look bad. I happen to know him as well, he's a perfectly good writer, and happens to be knowledgable, unlike *ahem* others.
I looked at that article, it happened to be the father of one of my friends, so I called him and had a lengthy conversation. I asked if he wanted to be interviewed, apparently the thousands of e-mails he recieved deterred him :)
Anyway, many of the replies here, and the contents of the e-mails sent to him suggest that most people either didn't read the article, or read it with the "Is Linux Dead?" line in mind. That's not the point of the article. His point is that linux still faces the problem of attracting the home user who doesn't want to sit at his computer looking at a bash shell, he wants an attractive, user-friendly OS. Distributions like Red Hat certainly cater to this, but one other hardship convincing the home user that Linux is the way to go, rather than Microsoft's products. I suggest that all who are accusing the author of being biased first re-read the article from an objective perspective.