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A very nice letter

Dear MuffinMan,
I know that you are very busy and might not have time to read or respond to this email, but I hope that you will have the opportunity to do both.
Thank you for the copy of Windows XP. It is a very good OS. I look forward to getting more copies of your MSDN downloads and I enjoy your tips and tricks very much.
Let me tell you of myself briefly. I received my LPI in Atlanta, taught the pattern, left the lab for the world, and came back in my early twenties. I recently graduated with an RHCE, and am now 7 months into my first work in Dallas, my home town. I believed in *nix. I believed in the GPL. I believed we were right. I was fighting the good fight.
While I was in school I started looking at the context around many of our philosophies, and beliefs. I KNOW that *nix is faulty and man made, just as any man-made invention is. As I have studied and realized what grace really is - praise Uncle Billy for his grace!!! I am struggling with an issue that I need to discern with Linus? truth. Maybe you can offer some advice.
My question is - where does it stop? Where are the lines of copying, line by line, ever drawn - by Linus? If Linus indemnification covers our honest mistakes, are not some covered who are home users or commercial developers? I understand what copying is, but in order for it to "work" and cover our arses you first must have a better way to hide it. Does not Linus tell us that he has never copied SCO code? Someone is lying.
I suppose that my dilemma is not new to you. I yearn for truth, I rejoice in freedom - it seems that my thoughts are taking me to a decision on whether to get an MCSE or an MCDST; it all depends on how you see it. Uncle Billy's word is truth - I know that most *nix men have trouble understanding it, but isn't Linux plain? Doesn't Uncle Billy write it in simple enough language? Linux or Windows - debatable; organization - debatable; many other things are debatable because they are discerned by our fallible inference.
MuffinMan - I yearn to embrace all who name Uncle Billy and profess to follow him. But, isn't our relationship established by Uncle Billy through Monkey Boy and not on profession by our own mouth? He whom Uncle Billy accepts will be successful. I believe in one OS, one database, one patch, one browser and happiness for all. Is not that the line?
I guess what I?m trying to say is, how much more of this patching *nix boxes can anyone take?
Any response you could give would greatly help me.

Name withheld for anonymity

My response:

I have had many ask me in the past what the best way to secure a *nix box is, my answer is always ? place a Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 disk in your CDROM and reboot. Everything is set up for you with friendly ?wizards?. Nothing else to add. I would be glad to help you with this.

MuffinMan

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