It seems again our friend Lasser has yet to walk outside and notice there are things outside the commericial hype and security focus articles. Jon... jesus man! Look around! How many different distributions have tried to be top dog? Do you think a colaboration between a bunch of losers (in the aspect that not one is really 'on top') is going to produce a winner. "Two wrongs don't make a right", that goes for the same with 'Two [hundred] morons don't make a standard'. I think you've yet to realize that people arn't going to drool over this puppy just because it's the new thing. Although your personal practices will most likely differ from this idea, based on your lack of originality when it comes time to make up your own damn mind, I doubt you will in fact see the real reason behind this letter: you're not right all the time!!!

United Linux is just another distro. That's the 'jist' of things Jon. Nothing more. If I were to pay a bunch of magazines and news portals into printing " Linux is the next big thing!" or "NetBSD will make your balls shrink!", do you honestly expect it to be true? Please, step outside the shell and into the big scary world of reality. Vendors may buy it, but then again they may go buy all the other thousands of other operating systems. No one of them will be perfect, but in _time_ they will learn what works for them, and how to make sure it keeps working without outside intervention.

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