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Rantings of the Linux-haters

Unfortuantely, I am no longer a card-carrying member of the Linux brigade. For compatibility reasons, I am currently constrained to XP running on a Thinkpad. But nevertheless, I feel a strong empathy for people who write software and don't sell it with a 3-page license that appropriates all your rights, which is why I laugh myself silly when I read things like

This ridiculous [Linux and Free Software] movement is nothing but a vain socialist attempt to marginalize the software industry. Moreover, it has been rather unpleasant to watch you and others over the past three years develop the single largest false advertising campaign in the history of commerce
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With all due respect, your fantasy world of so-called "free" software is about to end, God willing.

All that from a letter to C|Net News in response to an article by Bruce Perens.

No doubt the Linux programmers are committing suicide at the walls of SCO and Microsoft. Excuse me while I laugh myself to death.

Posted by nlvp at May 22, 2003 02:57 PM