Here is the message I sent to the idiot columnist>
>>Will someone tell me what's so great about Linux?
>
>For one thing it comes with Appletalk (NetAtalk) and SMB (Samba) servers
>for free!!!
>
>For another thing it comes with about 400 MB of software packages that can
>do nearly everything under the sun...... telephony, faxing, mail serving,
>web-serving, print serving, file serving, graphics, word processing, page
>layout, games, etc, etc., all for free!!!
>
>For yet another thing, it does play well with other operating systems that
>happen to reside on the same hard drive.
>
>I have only owned PC's (2 UMAX Pentiums) for 7 months, and I have windoze
>95, windoze NT and Linux (2 varieties) on both of those machines. (How
>long have you been using computers anyway?!?!?!) Why would you be afraid
>to "change" a working PC?!?!
>
>But, I can see how it would be easy to be afraid of operating sytems and
>computers if my only experience was with Microsoft operating systems, as
>they consume about 95% of any administration time that is required on my
>home office LAN. And I can honestly say that had my first computer been a
>pentium with windoze, I would not have fallen completely in love with
>technology the way that I did.
>
>But fortunately my first computer was a PowerMac 8100/100 AV. So I guess I
>am one of the "more wacked Mac fanatics," you refer to in your column.
>Maybe Mac users (and Linux users) just expect an operating system to do
>the things that we instruct it to do, rather than whatever the OS feels
>like doing, which is behavior I have observed in many windoze based machines.
>
>By the way, since you seem to have a penchant for criticizing programmers
>on their lack of spelling ability and typos, I would just like to tell you
>that I am well aware that 'windoze' should be spelled 'windows.'
>
>Also, exactly how much of your income is derived from commenting
>on/describing/writing about/advocating/evangelizing Microsoft's
>products?!?! It is getting to the point that pseudo-journalist-microsoft
>employees should have a disclaimer at the beginning of each "article."
>
>Have a nice day.
Dale Leonard
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