Verily I say unto thee, that Andrew Halliwell spake thusly:
> Cue the wintrolls "yea, but with linux you have to grow the corn,
> kill the chicken, pluck it, clean it, cook it..." etc :)
I know you're just kidding, but actually this analogy is misleading.
Joe "Linux" User does not have to rear; kill and pluck his own chickens,
the maintainers at the distro do that for him.
He is however /free/ to become one of those maintainers.
He is also free to start his own distro, potentially even using the work
already done at another distro as a starting point, or just start from
scratch.
Equally he can just use a distro; rely on others to do most of the work
for him, thus providing him with /most/ of his "chickens", whilst he
rears one or two of his own as a pet project.
> Let's get that out before they can so we can take the piss out of
> them when they do.
You needn't worry, because there is nothing the Trolls can say that
diminishes the virtue of the Free Software paradigm. They may despise it
with a passion, for their own incontrovertibly malevolent reasons, and
thus sling juvenile insults at it, but they can't deny its integrity.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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