🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <336C5116.FB0@netkiosk.com.au>, Doug Smith
<doug@netkiosk.com.au> wrote:

|It's a sad thing indeed to read that someone claiming to "know what they
|are doing" is so willing to defend an operating system that at it's very
|best is still an experiment, free because even some five years after
|it's first introduction...Not even those people who "know what they are
|doing" have been able to stablize the kernel or develop simple, easy to
|use programs for it.

No, it's free because the (many) people who wrote the code each placed
their own contributions under the FSF's GNU Public License (or near
equivalent).

Linux is not going to suddenly start costing $1000 per installation when it
reaches some magical level of "stability".

BTW, I use Sun's Solaris (on SPARC and x86 hardware) as well as Linux and,
if a little care is taken in selecting the hardware, there is little
diference in stability. On the other hand, Linux has, "out of the box",
several features that cost extra from Sun, or are simply not available on a
commercial basis.

-- 
Paul Colquhoun                  paulcol+sig@pac.tpgi.com.au
     "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"
          Lazarus Long (a.k.a Robert A. Heinlein)