On 2003-12-05 10:16:05 +0000 Graham Trott gt@pobox.com wrote:
"With respect", opinions are just that; subjective and individual, not to be labelled perjoratively.
<high-ground> I think maybe the OP didn't read my recent message about not expressing opinions as if they were fact. Coo, it's high up here. fx:vertigo/</high-ground>
It's one of the perceived weaknesses of Linux; if it's so good why do some of its proponents have to defend/promote it so vehemently?
There is no single marketing organisation for it. At least in the early days, the only way to be able to use GNU/Linux at work was to defend/promote it yourself, as your boss wouldn't have been won over by the big UK marketing spend of Walnut Creek.
I don't think that the proponents are a weakness. They're a strength, basically, but sometimes the language and style lacks some polish. Hey, that should be endearing in small moderate doses. We're not marketing men. We're real people in the real world.