Um. . . guys, I hate to hear somebody like that carry on like an idiot,
but let's take stock a little.
He obviously pays attention to the wrong things (maybe deliberately);
it's hard to imagine what typos in a Usenet posting from Linus have to
do with the utility of an operating system. My guess is that he has a
vested interest in pushing M$ over anything else.
But if his heart can be won, it won't be won by a bunch of
well-connected nerds responding to his ignorant blabbing with
well-informed vitriol. To whatever extent people listen to him, we
won't reach them through him if we alienate him.
If what we want is to promote Linux to a wider pool of users, we can't
afford to alienate _any_ idiots. Saying that anyone, no matter how
stupid, "shuldn't" use Linux is elitist and absurd. Remember Uncle
Bill's Nike commercial: "Technology is not meant to confuse the mind,
but to assist the body." To whatever extent a GNU/Linux system is
unusable to anyone who can get work done on some other sort of computer
system, it fails for that user. Period. If you're tired of newbies
asking dumb questions on the lists, that's a different problem, and it's
your own. These days, everyone needs to use computers, and "everyone"
includes a very large number of very dim people. To whatever extent we
respond to this guy with a "we don't want you on our team anyway"
attitude, we validate his assertion that Linux is a hackers-only OS.
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