__/ [ Ian Semmel ] on Wednesday 17 January 2007 01:30 \__
> There appears to be some confusion in this newsgroup as to what open
> Source entails.
>
> Schestowitz and his ilk seem to think that because someone advocates open
> source programs, they are advocating linux.
>
> The platform which runs most open source programs is Windows. There are
> thousands more windows os programs than are available for linux, and
> because it is easier to write gui programs for windows, and there are more
> development tools, they are usually of a better standard.
>
> Linux may be open source, but open source is not linux.
A kernel without a face is not quite the operating system in the full sense
of the term. If the group was comp.kernel.linux, then your point would be
very valid. Mac also resides under a similar place on the tree, but Macs
have nothing to do with a BSD (Darwin) kernel.
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