[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Bowie J. Poag]

Jim March wrote:
>>> I'm not anti-Linux. I'm just tired of seeing the Linux scene decay into another Amiga fanclub full of hopeful die hards that think the platform will one day rise up again.<<
>>>       
>
> Where's your evidence we're collapsing?  Seriously?
>   

Toe cheese, Jim.   Toe cheese, and hissy-fits from the likes of Torvalds 
and Cox who would rather bicker like teenage girls than provide some 
form of meaningful direction. I'd rather ride in a car with Hellen 
Keller behind the wheel than trust these three clowns with the Linux 
movement. At least 'ol Hellen set goals and had initiative.
> We're making decent progress.  Google's distro will help, we'll
> finally have a serious-sized company behind a free (as in doesn't cost
> anything) distro made to work.
>
>   
...Making progress in a race that's already been won by someone else.  
What's the point of continuing when there's a free Unix with widespread 
commercial acceptance already out there? This is why I gave up on Linux. 
There is no point in pouring any more time and effort into it as a 
platform. You're better off putting it into Darwin, where at least 
there's leadership. And a lack of guys eating their damn toe cheese in 
the middle of a conversation.

> And that's completely insane.  "Oh great, let's all try and use an
> operating while dodging Apple trying to drive wooden stakes through
> our hearts..."
>
> Recipe for success...NOT.
>   
It's no better recipe than any other free Unix---They all come from 
commercial parentage that wants to kill its offspring, and Linux is no 
exception.