Review: The Craftsman by Richard Sennet - Guardian Unlimited
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| The best known Linux application is Wikipedia, the encyclopedia to which any
| user can contribute.
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2254702,00.html
Hilarious.
Related:
[Flawed Linux Articles in Silicon.com and BBC]
Apples and bananas
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| This statement is incorrect in almost every sense. To go through it
| point for point:
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| * Linux is a great example of the old adage "you don?t get owt for
| nowt": I assume Mr Benson is referring to the GNU/Linux distributions
| rather than the Linux kernel itself, and in particular to desktop
| distributions, nonetheless my reply concerns all these...
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| * [GNU/Linux] is not free: Actually it is. Both the GNU/Linux
| Distributions and the Linux kernel are free in almost all senses
| of the word...
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| * [Y]ou pay for the support of [GNU/Linux]: I do not know about you, or
| Mr Benson, but I do not pay for GNU/Linux support as I support my
| sites myself.
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| * There are so many flavours [of GNU/Linux] that it dilutes any potent-
| ial attractiveness: What a curious thing to say. Taking that argument
| to its logical conclusion would be like saying a cafè should not sell
| ice cream because the attractiveness of that is diluted due to too
| many flavours available.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/apples_and_bananas
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