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To: rudedog who wrote (27827)	2/15/2000 5:11:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

JC - Cheryl is passionate about Unix... Me too. It began for me with DOS BBSing. That's the experience I come from. I watched Windows fail miserably at living up to it's initial hype (and I really tried). Never mind multi-tasking, just dealing with a serial port was more than it could handle. Successively, it's been the same. With Win95 Microsoft actually sent shills into the network to advance Win95 over OS/2, and permanently establish in my mind what is the M$ style; what Microsoft branding is all about. Meanwhile, back at the internet, Unix and open standards run the show, just as they do the telephone company. There's a reason the telephone company doesn't run VAX VMS. What half-truth or propaganda is there? When the rest of the world was swallowing Microsoft's line about making a 'better Unix than Unix', and Scott McNealy was just laughing (alone) and pointing out that M$ made TOY operating systems, that had a certain resonance with me. I repositioned into SUNW in a big way. To me, the writing was on the wall, and it had a LOT to do with Unix. Since then, I've become a bit of a nix enthusiast. I'm continually enthralled with GNU/Linux being all of the things we were trying to turn our DOS boxes into back in the BBS days. There isn't* a better Unix than Unix. I don't read propaganda and half-truths from Cheryl. What I read mirrors my experience and more often than not accurately predicts an outcome. I don't understand the problem you have with Cheryl's posts. -JCJ