Messages in this thread | | | From | "Towers, Tim (London)" <> | Subject | Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:02:34 +0100 |
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Dear Alex,
You're a troll but I can't resist...
Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.10.9909270801001.21284-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>... > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote: > > [ snip ] > > I hope not! That's downright embarassing. > > But the advantages are that it forces clueless lusers to learn a lot more > about the differences between Linux and a certain shrink wrapped product > from a certain company in Seattle
Simce when was having to do extra, unnecessary work a good thing. Remember that Linus himself uses a distribution. I can't believe you're mad enough to roll your own distribution just so you'd learn more.
Computers are tools, if they're not "working" then they're an expensive room heater.
> , and teaches them the concepts and > advantages of in open source software. The more literate people becomes, > the more they know,
There's a difference between being able to do something and wanting to. AND, to deny the advantages of linux to the general population would be a crime.
> the less they can have the wool pulled over their eyes > by the likes of Micro$not.
For drivers, they're leagues ahead of us. > I'd rather have more literate people and less clueless people out there..
If it hurts, people wont do it.
Tim
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