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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