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Article #55462Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
From: Timothy J. Lee
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
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kspoon@mindless.com (K. Spoon) writes: |Johan Kullstam <johan19@IDT.NET> once proclaimed: |>2) fast free upgrades. you find a bug and it is usually fixed by |> someone extremely quickly. | |Yeah, but the counter-argument you're going to run into there is that |"It's all free software *snort*." For some reason, people think you |have to have a centralized commercial goal in order to ensure quality |of the product. [1] |[1] I ran into a guy tonight who didn't want to run Debian because it | was "made by a bunch of volunteers"[3].... "Free" software on MS-DOS and MS-Windows tends to be more hazardous and lower quality than free software on Unix, Linux, and BSD. On MS OSes, it tends to come in binary only distributions, which increases the risk of getting viruses or trojan horses, and prevents skilled users from fixing bugs and improving the quality of the software. Also, some of the "free" software being passed around for MS OSes may really be pirated software. So users of MS OSes may be quite suspicious of free software simply based on their experience with it on the MS OSes. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy J. Lee timlee@ Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee) Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article? Date: 1997/06/10 Message-ID: <timleeEBKMLs.AMB@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 247503566 Sender: timlee@netcom5.netcom.com References: <5nipv6$mi@nnrp1.farm.idt.net> <slrn5pq93d.qc.kspoon@strider.loeffel.net> Followup-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---ads-not-welcome Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc