Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director) [LWN.net]

Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director)

Posted May 4, 2003 20:09 UTC (Sun) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director) by erat
Parent article: Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director)

While I think your point is valid in general, this is an article particularly *about* Linux gaining mindshare vs. Microsoft Windows. It's not a general "Linux is doing well" article with an anti-Microsoft jab stuck in.

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Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director)

Posted May 4, 2003 22:13 UTC (Sun) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

I was refering more to the one-liner Mr. Corbet posted than to the actual content of the article. The first sentence in the article would have not only been more pro-Linux, but it would have also offered a much better summary of the article (which, by the way, is not about Microsoft being downgraded by Merrill Lynch; it's about Linux being validated as an enterprise-ready OS, something that I would think is MUCH more important than what Merrill Lynch thinks about Microsoft's stock).

It's subtle things like this that disappoint me about how some Linux folks choose to promote Linux.

Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director)

Posted May 5, 2003 4:44 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Mr. Corbet's one-line quote was exactly the right journalistic choice: it was the only surprising, new thing in the article. That made it news. Would that more people could both tell the difference and read kernel code.

Penguin cracks Windows servers (IT-Director)

Posted May 5, 2003 12:39 UTC (Mon) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

There is nothing unusual at all about Microsoft's stock rating taking a hit, nor is it unusual that Linux is listed as a threat. Microsoft's own people have been listing Linux as a threat since the antitrust lawsuits began.

This is "...the only surprising, new thing in the article"? Hardly.