>>> ben_b at ppdonline.com 07/24/02 12:54PM >>> >As a person with no ideological tie to unix based operating systems or >open source software it appears that the majority of posts on this list >take some sort of shot, large or small, at Microsoft. "And why would anyone take a shot at Microsoft?" Is that your question? Or are you confused as to why people on an alternative OS email list (like maybe a LUG list), specifically, would take a shot at Microsoft? Or is this simply an uncluttered observation of the obvious?