Great Linux Topic

[Jim W]

My response is simple - advocacy is something that all those M$ naysayers in
the Linux community need to look up in a dictionary.  Advocacy is support
for something, be it a cause, a person, or a development philosophy.  It has
nothing to do with disseminating information about a competitive cause,
person, or philosophy.  If you advocate Linux, you support Linux, you do NOT
belittle Linux' competition (if there really is any).

Advocacy conveys a positive message about both the cause and the advocate.
Criticism, however well founded, of a competitive way of thinking by an
'advocate' will always engender distrust of the advocate and the cause that
he/she is advocating.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Leonard <robertbleonard@hotmail.com>
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
<plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Great Linux Topic


>I've had the pleasure of working in IT arena for quite awhile, with various
>different companies, countries, and cultures.
>
>One of the biggest down falls of linux and it's advocates is "everything
>else sucks, and why don't you understand this!"
>
>The following article intelligently states a position that needs to be
>considered.
>
>http://www.chc-3.com/pub/linuxgrok.htm
>
>
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