Thu, 16 Oct 2003
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Hi there, MetaFilter readers. Hope you like it here.
(Message for "Rough Ashlar":
I didn't say what you seem to think I said. I'd have
corrected you via the MeFi comments system, but it seems to be
closed for
new business right now. Probably just as well. FYI, the
column I wrote for Shopper went through a couple of name
changes, but ended up being called "Linux Expert" because,
bluntly, that's what those members of the public who aren't
familiar with the minutiae of the Eric Raymond/Richard
Stallman open source/free software love-in think in terms of.
With a remit to cover BSD, MacOS/X, and commercial UNIXen,
it might have better been called the UNIX column -- but as the
then editors decided, that'd have put off those readers who've
heard of this free thing called Linux and want to learn about
it. Pedants who insist on calling it GNU/Linux and wax
lyrical about the difference between the LGPL and the GPL
can fuck right off: life's too short, especially when it's
parcelled out in 3000 word monthly installments.)
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