Could you please terminate this thread. It's off topic and crossposted
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> appropriate to the topic under discussion. Please no more 'Jihad needs
> scientists'. It's offensive.
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> "MassiveProng" wrote in
> message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 07 14:12:38 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com Gave us:
>>
>>>>>>> snipped-for-privacy@aol.com writes:
>>>>> >I think that Linux has reached the point where it is good enough =
for all
>>>> >practical purposes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope. It is not a product (in the sense that we called things
>>>>> a product). It is still a toy; it has a little bit more growing
>>>>> up to do.
>>>>
>>>>Odd. The *world's largest manufacturer* of the kit that
>>>>holds the internet together think that they want to run
>>>>linux on their kit, and have done for years. Your
>>>>perspective on the IT world is as skewed as your perspective
>>>>on pretty much everything else, it appears.
>>>
>>>I am not talking about the IT world. That's just a small niche
>>>of the computing biz. There is more to Real Life than IT.
>>>
>>
>> It is in use EVERYWHERE. Get it through your thick skull.
>>
>> My wireless LAN uses it internally. That's an embedded application as
>> it is all in firmware, on a non-computer "industrial control"
>> platform, that being network communications. In other words, not a
>> computer, just so you don't get confused about that again.
>>
>> My HD DVD uses it, and that IS essentially a computer, and has a
>> recordable storage device which it boots from and has a user
>> interface. etc.. It boots Linux. It doesn't qualify as a computer =
to
> me though, since it is a single function read device.
>>
>> The military AND the aircraft industry all rely on Linux when they
>> run their EDA applications or their custom scientific applications. =
It
> isn't all VAX and VMS any more. Also, all those thousands of Sun
>> stations out there running Solaris is a proprietary flavor of a *nix
>> OS.
>>
>> Linux has gotten thoroughly entrenched in the last 4 years.
>>
>> So either learn about or shut the f*ck up. Quit dissin' something
>> you know nothing about.
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