[Plug] Linux Worse than Microsoft!

["Edmund Goppelt" <goppelt@pobox.com>]

I think it's interesting to hear what the programming greats have to say about Linux. It's not always complimentary. For example, the following is from a May, 1999 interview with Ken Thompson, one of the creators of Unix:

http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm

Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft?a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically.

My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go.

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