"Schools often provide free food for you and your staff for working meetings during lunch. Assuming that you eat about $8 worth of food during the extra hour of work, that turns out to be about $16,000 per year." Mr. Strauss obviously never attended his arithmatic classes: $8 x 5 days/week x 52 weeks/year = $2080 and != $16,000 unless he grew up in a world where you work 40 days per week... -scheides On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:09 pm, Todd Young wrote: > Dear Howard Strauss, > > I read your article on-line in the Syllabus....interesting reading. > http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8460 > > I'm still trying to decide if you were being sarcastic, or if you really > view Linux and Open Source as a toy/tool for "teenagers too young to > work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others"? > > If you were writing the article with "tongue in cheek", then kudos, you > managed to stir up some serious discussion about Linux. > > If you were serious when you wrote the article, then I have to wonder if > Microsoft paid you to write the article as yet another piece of FUD > (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about Linux. The end of the article has a > line that your are "the manager of technology strategy and outreach at > Princeton University." My experience with some managers is that they > only know what their employees tell them when it comes to technical > matters, especially so in the IT world. So my question to you is, do you > know a server from a desktop? Do you know what the Linux operating > system is? Do you know what Open Source software is? Did you know that > Apache web server, an Open Source application, currently runs on almost > 66% of the web servers on the Internet? Don't believe me, check out > www.netcraft.com. As of 03Nov2003, Apache accounts for 67.41% of the web > servers on the Internet. > > If Linux and Open Source are indeed a toy/tool for "teenagers too young > to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others", > then why, pray tell, are major manufacturers supporting and utilizing > Linux in their production environments? Why does IBM, a major player in > the IT world, support Linux on their products, including mainframes? Why > has Novell bought Ximian and is now looking to buy SuSE, both of which > are Open Source, one an application, the other a distribution of Linux? > > If Linux is the root of such evil, why then has a Linux firewall been > protecting my home network FROM intruders for over 2 years with a 100% > success rate of keeping out intruders and worms? Why then is an embedded > Linux device serving as a dial-up modem and firewall combination for my > retired father and his WindowsXP computer? > > If you are really so deluded that you believe Linux to be the root of > such evil, then I neither hate nor despise you, I pity you. Please feel > free to keep you head buried so far in the sand that you can't see the > world changing around you. Linux and Open Source are here to stay, and > will only continue to gain market share, both in the private sector and > in the business sector. Linux gives companies and private individuals > the opportunity to get off the hardware upgrade merry-go-round that > Microsoft would have everyone believe is the norm. Microsoft's operating > systems keep getting larger and larger each year. Meanwhile, my Linux > based firewall is running on a Pentium1 computer with only 128Megs of > RAM and a simple 1.5 gigabyte hard drive. I would love to see Microsoft > beat that. > > I welcome your comments/rebuttal. > > Sincerely, > Todd Young > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Chris Scheidecker Associate Systems Administrator cscheidecker at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com 612.676.1946 x33 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list