[OT] re: trolls and operating systems [was: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
> > Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
> > > > Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
> > > Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
> > Do you really want to start a "debate" on best OS ever? Talk about an
> > ugly religious argument, even if we exclude anyone dumb (or trollish)
> > enough to consider any version of Windows anywhere close to in the
> > running. :-)
> But I think it is not about a "debate on best OS ever". It is about
> getting everybody working for him. Everyody must solve his problems to
> show that Linux is better than Windows. This is a classic case of
> trolling. He used this zombie technique before when he said that Windows
> is much easier to install than Linux, and managed to get people enslaved,
> desperate to show that Linux is so superior that even unspeakable problems
> can be solved.

I'm not sure that's it.  I think it's just that we can't let go of a 
problem to solve; or this guy is irritating us, or something.  I'm 
pretty sure that nobody here really feels we need to prove the 
superiority of Linux over Windows.  (Now if we wanted to talk serious 
operating systems, then we'd be talking about Tenex, ITS, Plan 9, 
Symbolics, Apollo/Domain, .... but that a religious argument for another 
day :-)

Cheers,

Miles

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