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Re: Linux - Not a magic bullet

  • Subject: Re: Linux - Not a magic bullet
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:07:44 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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__/ [ Andy C.(never #) ] on Thursday 14 December 2006 17:04 \__

> Sinister Midget wrote:
>>SNIP
>>
>> Who said it was? Besides trolls claiming "you guys say it"?
>>
> I think I may be guilty of some of that and certainly a lot of
> management types who look for easy answers to difulcult problems. I
> thought because Linux is easy for me and does what I need it to do, it
> would be easy for anyone. But, obviously, it isn't. I'm not that
> comfortable in XP anymore, either.
> 
>> Blame the admin, not the OS. It's not like Windows, wherein one must be
>> admin or *snorf* "Power User" to do anything useful on or off a
>> network.
>>
> Oh, I do, but I'm not in a position to challenge them. Even though I
> see a number of practices that should not be allowed, management is not
> at the level that they understand that having "." in PATH and allowing
> anonymous ftp is asking for trouble. I just mention those as examples.
> There are more.
> 
>> --
>> I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect
>> that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an
>> interpreter.
> I think if Microsoft ever meets the devil, they will offer him a job.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1999070,00.asp

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