[ale] oh... please (slight rant)

[Brian J. Dowd]

1:"Over the net" or
2:sitting down at the machine?

1: Not likely. 2: Easy.
...and it has nothing to do with open source.
> while talking with a friend of a friend last night the conversation
> started to turn into a pissing contest.  the gist of it is he is very
> entrenched in M$ land and Linux is nothing more than a hobbyist's
> plaything.  (hmm... possibly some residual anger there...)
>
> i actually was rendered speechless (not an easy feat mind you, i run my
> trap A LOT) when he proclaimed that he could hack any Linux machine in a
> few minutes because it was open-source.  i sat there for a few seconds
> and then looked at my friend and asked, "he's not doing anything mission
> critical for you, is he?"
>
> i readily admit that i am not a Linux guru, database wizard, or web
> tzar, but i have enough intelligence to determine that "many eyes are
> better than a few"!
>
> instead of being bated into some juvenile argument, i calmly stated
> "well, we all use the tools we believe are the best." then i excused
> myself to go check and see if someone was clubbing a baby seal in his
> driveway.
>
> i felt like that caveman on the insurance commercial...
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