Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Raju Mathur wrote:

> As said by some sage earlier ;-), BSD people seem to define their
> existence in terms of how much they can knock GNU and Linux.  All the
> BSD-related articles I've seen on the 'net so far seem to talk more
> about the GPL and Linux and how viral and dangerous they are than
> about BSD-related issues.

True. For some reason, it appears fashionable for BSD people to bash
Linux the way Linux people bash Windows.


> Not that I go out of my way to hunt them out: good examples can be
> found in the archives of this list itself.

Which *is* what bothers me. Rather than being constructive and offering
solutions and suggestions, all one gets is negativity and
Linux/GPL/community bashing.

> Consider getting a life -- I hear they're quite affordable nowadays.

I checked - after discounts, you can now get a life at $19.95 plus
shipping. Residents of Seattle/Redmond have to add 7% sales tax.

That seesm a good deal, especially since you cannot get a life on this
list for love or for money ;-)

Atul

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