Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Keith Beattie wrote:
> Yea, I see what you mean but I'm a little concerned that Linux, and to
> a larger extent free software, will be damaged by people taking a
> "religious" attitude towards their software and not tolerating any
> criticism. I'm not accusing you (or anyone) of that, but I think that
> there might be presumption that us "enthusiasts" have that tendency and
> hence will not be taken seriously.
Just to raise a chuckle and let you see how much ignorance is out there,
this was posted by someone calling themselves, I believe, a unix sys
admin, in the "dos" Onenet conference (FirstClass conf system) last September
: Linux is the kiddie version of UNIX. It is a small subset of real UNIX
: (AIX, HPUX,UTX,SOLARIS). It actually runs under DOS. It doesn't
: support multi threaded processes, is a 16 bit OS and can be hung quite
: easily. Unless you're a teen ager with dreams of being a real
: programmer some day I would avoid it.
Cheers,
--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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