The most stupid running story

The most stupid running story of the past week has been the kerfuffle over a Unisys Web site designed to promote its mainframe-class Windows NT server. It offers a number of white papers explaining why Windows can solve problems that Unix doesn't and proclaims: We have the way out. Nothing odd about that, you would think, but the fact that site was running on a BSD Unix/Apache platform excited some of the more braindead members of the Linux Taliban. Almost as foolishly, Unisys (which also sells Unix, and used to be a leading Unix proponent) moved the site to a Windows server, when it should have simply told these idiots to Get A Life. Out here in the real world, PC magazines often get produced on Macs, Linux companies (indeed, most Linux users) use Microsoft Windows and Word, Ford car parts get delivered in Mercedes Benz trucks, and digital camera adverts are shot with film cameras, Indeed, the white papers on the Unisys site are in Adobe PDF format not Microsoft Word, but who cares? To be blunt, this kind of "product fascism" shows a severely deficient personality and we could all do without it.