Thou shalt keep windows on thy machines (was Re: [ILUG] Naive..etc.)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jimmy Tang (jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie):

> so the question remains, how many linux users here who claim that
> opensource is great and strongly disagree with using windows because its a
> tax that manufacturers impose on users also use things like binary blobs
> (un)knownlingly in their kernels to get hardware that the linux user has
> bought.

Open source sucks, as a corollary of software sucking generally.

Oh, and your favourite OS sucks, too:
http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/os-suck.html

I happen not to have run GameOS on any machine of mine since GameOS for
Workgroups v. 3.11, back around 1992.  Running it on my current Xubuntu
laptop would be an amusing exercise, as I doubt GameOS likes PPC iBooks
very much.

> note, some if not most people will see what i have bothered to type in
> the above to be a flame/troll or whatever. but the fact of the matter is, i
> myself like opensource...

...but have nothing to say.  Check.