Re: The Masses Have Spoken on the Boot Logo Topic :)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 15 May 1998 19:38:49 -0400

"Phil's Kernel Account" <kernel@eiterra.nls.net> said:
> The current slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) poll is "The Answer to the
> Linux Boot logo Debate." I just voted (for No Logo by Default, of
> course:), and here's the current results.

> Logo by Default [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] 45 / 34%
> No Logo by Default [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] 38 / 29%
> Just Leave it Alone [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] 12 / 9%
> Who Cares? [INLINE] [INLINE] [INLINE] 36 / 27%

Rather slim, your 131-people masses ;-)

> Now, IIRC, Linux is an OS by the masses, for the masses. I think the
> masses have spoken. ;)

Nope. Linux is the OS of the gurus, freely shared with the masses. OTOH,
you just might attain guruhood by coding up the above and making sure it
works everywhere ;-)

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