On 31/01/02 Bruce Burhans did speaketh:
> Someone asked me what the difference between Windows and Linux was,
> and I presumed to answer:
>
> Windows grew out of the work of self-involved gameplayers, and
> Linux grew out of the work of people
> concerned with using the computer to make the world a better place.
>
> That's my impression, anyway.
Windows grew out of the need to make money at any cost, regardless of the
quality (or lack thereof) of the software.
Linux grew out of a desire to have software that doesn't suck.
In other words, Linux is the closest thing to software that works "the way
it should" (tm).
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@mcss.mcmaster.ca>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
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