Why did you choose Linux? (was Re: [Gllug] Onetel are CRAP!!)

Dermot Moynihan dermoyn at onetel.net.uk
Sat Nov 2 18:29:33 UTC 2002


At 11:46 02/11/02, you wrote:
>I originally got into Linux purely because it was a
>free (beer) UNIX clone available for PC hardware. I
>prefered the philosophy behind UNIX as opposed to
>Windows.
>
>I was aware of alternatives like FreeBSD but I can't
>remember why I chose Linux over it. Maybe it was
>because Linux had (and still does) bigger mindshare.
>
>It was only after started using Linux, that I
>understood the free speech argument.

The way you've just changed the subject title might suggest you haven't 
quite understood that argument yet :-)
D


>j
>--- Vincent AE Scott <gllug at codex.net> wrote:
> > There's a variety of people that use linux.  For
> > some its ideology, or
> > political statement and for others its just because
> > at some level it
> > just plain works for them.
>
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