OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sat Dec 3 04:44:02 CST 2005


Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Jules Richardson may have mentioned these words:
> 
> 
>> <cynical>
>> Of course in a few years Microsoft will 'invent' Linux. We'll get a 
>> consistent desktop (but still a bad one), and a system that's 
>> inherently unstable. But the Microsoft-buying public will lap it up, 
>> thinking how clever Microsoft are for inventing something that - 
>> unbeknown to them - looks oddly like UNIX. :-)
>> </cynical>
> 
> 
> Impossible. M$ only has a finite number of monkeys.
> 
> [[ Seen somewhere on the 'net aeons ago, unknown original attribution 
> anymore... ]]

Or my favourite - "Actually there's a MAXINT number of monkeys, but it's 
a good first-order approximation."

Gordon


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