Re: SEUL-Leaders: LJ 'from the editor' on Hewson

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I like the idea!

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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Erik Walthinsen (Omega) wrote:

> I'll quote from the latest LJ, which incidentally has data on things like
> SATAN, tcp_wrappers, and TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic Filesystem - NFS
> on steroids):
> 
> "
> London Times
>   As I'm sure everyone has heard by now, in April The London Times printed
> an article by David Hewson which trashed Linux and the "geeks" who use it.
> I just reread that article to determine if I needed to respond to it in
> some way.  Frankly, after reading through phrases like "nasty piece of
> digital scurf", "that old computer donkey known as Unix" and "a certain
> breed of bug-eyed computer user", I was laughing too much to take it
> seriously.  However, I did find the notion of "Bill Gates quivering in his
> boots at the idea that Linux will ... kick Microsoft Windows off the
> everyday desktop" rather appealing.  At any rate I found Hewson's rantings
> amusing and, most certainly, nothing to incite a flame war.
> "
> 
> I may write to ljeditor@ssc.com and mention the SEUL project, see if
> 'they' (LJ) want to do anything with it, like mentioning it in the From
> the Editor section.  No article yet, just the basic goals and a 'plea' for
> designers/coders/documenters, etc.
> 
> Good/bad?
> 
> TTYL,
>     Omega
> 
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