Re: Article in Kalamazoo Gazette

[Mike Nicholas <nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think an even better response than a retort letter would be a Viewpoint 
article by a KLUG officer.  Certainly the many positive points and aspects 
of not only Linux but KLUG could be emphasized.

Mike

At 12:09 AM 6/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I justed wnated to know if anyone saw the article in the kalamazoo Gazetee on
>page C3 in Thursady, MAy 31 2001.  "NetBSD even bettter than LINUX"?
>
>If you do not know what I am talking about or do not get the Gazetee the 
>let me
>quote it
>
>           "I write fuming after reading a letter from KLUG, the Kalamazoo 
> Linux
>User's Group.  Therein KLUG presents itself eager to assist Linux Newbies.  I
>did not find them so. KLUG directed me with my problem to its chief guru, who
>told me, and I quote, "Do it yourself or you'll never learn."  Inasmuch as i
>had bought my first computer while this punk was still in grade school, I 
>took
>his remark unkindly.  Later, unaided, I found that X windows (the Linux GUI)
>did not support the too-new NEoMagic chip set on my Gateway laptop.  All I
>learned from KLUG was not to rely on KLUG.  Now that X Windows finally 
>supports
>NeoMagic, I elected to bypass Linux in favor of a real Unix system: NetBSD.
>It's every bit as free as Linux and looks to be even more powerful.  BEst of
>all, the email support from NetBSD.org is more timely, far more helpful, and
>never snotty or condescending."  Gan Starling-Kalamazoo
>
>  I was just curious if KLUG was going to write back to the editor and 
> give KLUG
>side.  Three years ago before, I new about Linux, I started at Armstrong 
>Intl.
>as a Co-op student where I met Burce Smith. Who told me about Linux the OS 
>and
>about KLUG.  I can not think of the meetings that I went to where any one 
>told
>me anything like what this man is talking about.  As a matter of fact I can
>remeber talking to Bob, Chairman at the time, and some other people until 
>10:00-
>11:00 at night after the meeting ended talking about problems and what they
>thought the future of Linux would be.
>
>   In the last couple of months KLUG has been getting alot of good press from
>the Gazette. I would hate to see the Gazette go from good press of KLUG to 
>just
>a place where people complain about KLUG in it.  I wish that KLUG as a group
>would send a letter back to the editor.
>
>--
>Joshua S. Goodrich
>PC Technican
>Southwestern Michiagn College
>Dowagiac, MI 49067
>Phone (616) 783-2126


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