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Friday, April 08, 2005

Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'

ZDNet:

The Yankee Group reported [this week] that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is at least as good if not better than Linux, in terms of quality, performance and reliability.

Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who has been at the receiving end of much of the criticism from Linux advocates, claimed the radical elements of the community could damage the reputation of open source software.

"There's an extremist fringe of Linux loonies who hang out on forums and are disrespectful and threatening because you disagree with them," DiDio told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. "That can hurt the Linux community ... It's just software. This has got way out of proportion."

Ah yes. Now who does that remind me of?

I'm talking to you, Gustav.

You know, it's odd, I complained here previously that Apple suing Mac fan sites was a breach of some unspoken relationship, but now I'm beginning to wonder. One-sided sites like MacDailyNews, of course, do lots of harm to Apple and the Mac, because they make people uncomfortable with the crowd they'd be dealing with if they bought an Apple product. Most Apple users are, of course, completely normal. But the crazies--those losers who wouldn't let a fact get in the way of a good opinion--just ruin it for many people. What's sad is that, like the Linux fringe mentioned above, they're just trying to help.

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