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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1527)	5/8/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

"A Rebellious Reaction to the Linux Revolution" Chicago Tribune James Coates Unwitting MSFT Shill cgi.chicago.tribune.com:80/tech/frontpage/0,1714,coates,00.html The much more intelligent response: Linux and Other Rebellions by Diane Gartner "Linux and other rebellions" Copyright © 1999 by Diane Gartner. All rights reserved by author. An original article first published at the IACT website, <http://pages.cthome.net/iact> on May 5th, 1999. pages.cthome.net The author makes some excellent points. Well worth reading. Sample: James Coates "The Internet was working swell on traditional Unix, Macintosh and Windows NT before Linux was much more than a glimmer in Linus' eye, and it will work better whether or not the true believers pull off a miracle and slay the dragon. Diane Gartner Ahem, it seems that Coates knows even less about the Internet than U.S. Vice-Pres. Al Gore does. :) Perhaps neither of them know that the Internet is over 25 years old. It pre-dates the founding of Microsoft! That one part of the Internet called the "World Wide Web" likewise pre-dates NT-- the WWW went up in 1990, while NT wasn't released until 1994. Interestingly, NT's distant cousin OS/2 was released back in 1987, a full 7 years earlier than NT. Linux isn't quite as mature as OS/2 but is older than NT by 3 years [1991]. Adding those numbers up, we can verify that NT's influence over the Internet as a whole is negligible-- and will remain that way unless NT web and mail servers are foisted upon us. The Internet is cross-platform. It has worked well on all platforms from mainframes to desktops, from palmtops to laptops. The Internet was built on international open standards, not on any proprietary formats of any single OS or vendor. As long as those standards are respected, the Internet will go on "working swell" for all users, whether they've got DOS with Windows on top, pure DOS without Windows, BSD, Mac, Linux, BeOS, QNX, EPOC, AmigaOS, OS/2, OS/390, NeXT, Rhapsody, Solaris, NetWare, NT, VMS, you name it....