From: Art Taylor (root@fab4box.wa.com)
Date: 04/14/93


From: root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor)
Subject: Re: Linux on Macintrashes? (Was: Re: Linux on Amiga?)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 02:32:06 GMT

In article <1qhhd7INN7m0@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
>nmspillers@ualr.edu writes:
>If they were dumb enough to
>buy an over-priced-one-mouse-button-tiny-black-and-white-screen-
>bloated-awful-looking-os-without-a-cli-and-built-by-fascists computer
>in the first place, there's really no reason for them to want or need
>UNIX.

Duh. Like it will ever run on the vast quantity of internal-screen(ie., 68000)
Macintosh's. And who are you to determine what they want, anyway? If, in
fact, the Mac OS is evil, is there no room for 'enlightenment'? So, because
you bought a PC with DOS(with it's crappy interface and loser mem limits), you
are too much of an idiot to use UNIX?

> After all, purchasing a Macintrash is acceptance of its point
>and drool interface, AND a token of acceptance for Apple's business
>practices-- both of which go against the free software/UNIX tradition.

I hate to say this, but this is the attitude many of us have about MicroSloth.
You get their damn OS with your PC(like you have a choice), and their business
practices have drawn their share of hatred and spite(unearned or no).

>
>>I want to learn, I want to do something worthwhile and give a little back to
>>the computing community that has helped me so much, and I think this is a good
>>way of achieving these aims. . .
>
>Not at all. The best way would be to chuck that Mac out the window
>and buy a real computer.

Good response. I think you're wanted over in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.

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