Your Momma Uses Linux
Those of us who grew up in the seventies probably remember variations of this pejorative phrase. often aimed at either the schoolyard bully, or perhaps your best friend in jest. There was often no additional descriptor: just the first two words hanging there. The implication that your mother was... something left undescribed... was the worst kind of insult, the kind that only fists or more insults could avenge.
For the honor of our mothers, we were willing to risk getting pounded into the ground. (Our fathers, well, not so much.) And today, it is still our mothers, or grandmothers, or Aunt Tillies that we love so much that we will bless them with a Linux PC, to protect them from the evils of Windows or OS X. That's good. Our parents and families deserve to have a better operating system on their computers.
Then, in our exuberance, we hold all of our loved ones up as shining examples of how Linux is or will be ready for the desktop.
Except I'm not sure that's a good idea.
What got me started on this vein was an article I read on the Wall Street Journal Web site Thursday where tech columnist Walter Mossberg was answering reader mail.
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He misses the point, the readers correct him. There's also a rebuttal from the 'Gentoo camp'.