Unix master on Linux

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.¹

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It's never right to generalize people on the things they use and the products they buy. Fer chrissake, I used to think that all OSX users were elitest faggots, but since I started using Ubuntu, I realize that I love Unix. OSX is Unix-like, so what right have I to hate them when we're all from the same family tree? Sure, Microsoft is woefully lacking in certain areas, but so is Unix. There is no such thing as a perfect OS and, quite frankly, I don't want there to be one. Nothing gives me more satisfaction that fixing the same laptop I broke only hours before (mostly from my own ignorant blunderings - just recently switched over to *nix, may as well break a few things, huh?).