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I've been following these Linux threads with some interest because I
personally feel that Linux is going to, at some point, overtake
Microsoft and I also believe that it will be a Linux/Apple world with
Microsoft a way distant 3rd.

If M$'s market share is below 50%, it will then die out within a few
days. There is no loyal window user -- everyone hates it!

What I fail to understand however, is why Linux users seem to be so
nasty, obscene and self righteous. Some of the comments made to the
fine folks in rec.audio.pro are just uncalled for.
Is this what Linux advocacy is about?
You people seem to strut your operating system all over the place
claiming how superior it is to other systems, yet when you are called
to produce any kind of proof, you go scurrying about calling people
trolls, changing the subject, going on the offensive and so forth.
It seems that the Linux ehthusiast's bag of tricks is stuffed to the
brim with various techniques designed to deflect the shrapnel that
flies your way.
That's all well and good, but to put it simply it just makes most of
you look like a bunch of pablum puking babies.
Most of the discussions in rec.audio.pro revolved around making audio
at the professional level using Linux.
Who cares if I can alter the source code?
Who cares if there are 300 different versions of Linux?
Who even has the time to play with an evaluate them?

We need a tool to do a particular job and spending $500.00 for a piece
of software is an investment. I want to USE the noise reduction plugin
for SoundForge, I don't want to design one nor do I have the skills to
do such.
For 99 percent of the rec.audio.pro community, having the source code
means nothing and having 300 different versions of Linux just clouds
the issue.

having source code means you're kept safe!