Asstroturfer Ian Semmel wrote on behalf of micoshaft corporation:
> There appears to be some confusion in this newsgroup as to what open
> Source entails.
You proceed that assertion on yourself.
If you can find a second person, let us know.
> Schestowitz and his ilk seem to think that because someone advocates open
> source programs, they are advocating linux.
They never said anything like that - only you.
> The platform which runs most open source programs is Windows.
Your False assertion - you should check out
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
For the hundreds of Linux distributions.
> There are
> thousands more windows os programs than are available for linux,
Most of the windopz software not free, infected with spyware and comes with
no source code unlike Linux
> and
> because it is easier to write gui programs for windows, and there are more
> development tools, they are usually of a better standard.
Not true - you have to pay for windopz developer tools or steal it.
Linux developer tools are genuinely free.
> Linux may be open source, but open source is not linux.
Linux is open source and open source reaches us through Linux.
Windopz is closed source. So is your average viri infecting it
and will reach you through drive by browsing, emails, port scans,
spyware, malware, crippleware etc..
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