Craig White wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:32, Michael Havens wrote:
> 
>>On Monday 12 July 2004 22:19, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 12 July 2004 20:23, Bart Garst wrote:
>>>
>>>>And what, in your vast experience with linux, do you base that opinion
>>>>on?
>>
>>Whose feathers are ruffled? Boy, you guys are sure passionate about your 
>>favorite distro! But that is beside the point; look beyond the insensitive 
>>comment and look at the rest of the letter:
> 
> ---
> It's entirely naive to think you can hurl a bomb and not expect people
> to notice the bang. You can be assured that upon reading that, anything
> else was bound to be lost - even with people that don't use Red Hat.
> 
> I have little inclination to get into a distro discussion with someone
> with marginal understanding of the various distro's, only a bad
> experience when he had even less understanding than he does now.
> 
> Obviously Red Hat has chosen an interesting path - a stable commercial
> product and a bleeding edge community based product and the great thing
> about Linux is that if a particular distro doesn't suit your needs,
> there are others to choose from. Disparaging this or that distro is a
> fools game.
> 
> I am grateful that Debian exists. It is Linux in its most pure form -
> free from any corporate domination.
> 
> I am grateful for Red Hat's interest in pushing the envelope in
> businesses and their success.
> 
> I am grateful for Novell's commitment to Linux and think that they will
> likewise push things along.
> 
> I am struggling to figure out where the Mac OS X fits in with all of
> this but even if I don't get it, some people do and that's ok too.
> 
> I cannot understand the purpose of characterizing Microsoft as the
> darkest recess of the dark - they obviously dominate the industry and
> provide at least some of the standard of software/network standards that
> must be considered. There's little purpose too rehashing their monopoly,
> their predatory practices, etc. since this message base is about Linux.
> 
> Now, if you had a point somewhere, it's long since been lost in your
> insensitive comment.
> 
> Craig
> 
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