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Self interest is a wonderful thing
People tend to back whatever they have an investment in. Murph has a lot of time and history invested in Unix (and Sun in particular). As a result, the last paragraph of the story could have been written as

"... an Us Vs Them worldview and pretend that somehow a bunch of jocks with no loyalties beyond dollars and careers represent a community - it?s pure marketing manipulation and when they get someone like Murph to spout off an anti-Linux rant it diminishes him while profiting companies like Sun;"

The fact is that that paragraph will work for any company or product because that is how we generally market things these days. The Unix horse that you're happily flogging may not be dead yet, but it is increasingly becoming a niche product.
Posted by: bportlock   Posted on: 06/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Self interest is a wonderful thing  bportlock | 06/20/07
Except there's no anti-linux rant here  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/07
Anti Linux enthusiasts, then.  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
You were the one who introduced the word "rant"  bportlock | 06/20/07
Oh, come on.  dave.leigh@... | 06/20/07
The bad old days  Roger Ramjet | 06/20/07
No knows what a "Hrung" is ...  bportlock | 06/20/07
How many of IBM's contributions...  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
So...  bportlock | 06/20/07
"neither you, nor I, nor Murph nor all 3 of us"...  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
Which makes liars out of...  dave.leigh@... | 06/20/07
Pandering to the penguinistas...  dave.leigh@... | 06/20/07
Serving the penguinistas... Poached.  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
It was dolphins, not penguins...  bportlock | 06/20/07
And the dolphins left...  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
"so much more appealing"  Ole Man | 06/20/07
To Serve Man...  Anton Philidor | 06/20/07
re: To Serve Man...  dave.leigh@... | 06/21/07
Please read what I wrote, not what I get misquoted as saying  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/07
Huh?  bportlock | 06/20/07
Catch the Shadow  xstep | 06/20/07
ZZZZZZ ....  George Mitchell | 06/20/07
"pulling the strings they’re dancing too"  Ole Man | 06/20/07
Paul needs a history lesson  claude_j_greengrass | 06/21/07
Wrong on all counts (Sorry)  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/21/07
Cite your reference, please.  dave.leigh@... | 06/21/07
Technical prowess is not all that makes GNU/Linux attractive.  miyojim | 06/22/07
Development on Solaris? For what?  VelocityWebDev | 09/07/07
Sun's support of SCO  __howard__ | 06/21/07
Too Bad  fretinator@... | 06/21/07
RE: Shadows over Linux  azieba | 11/18/07
Solaris is BSD based?  12Jay | 12/08/07

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