This is the advice-column industry's penultimate dirty little secret. After all, if advice columnists really wanted to help people, we'd write them back personally, not publish their letters in newspapers where their friends and family might recognize them. When you finally see what we've got brewing here at Starbucks, you'll have no choice but to love it. You knew they were going to show their true colors eventually. After seeing my father go through so much pain and uncertainty the last few years, I know how scary it can be when someone you love, who you've always thought of as indestructible, has his life on the line.
Some people already know that impatience is a virtue .
One reader at Linux Today, which linked the CW story, suspects that MS would rely on a sort of involuntary attrition to move .NET customers away from Linux and towards Salvation. So I naively install .NET on my Linux servers and over time come to depend on it. Looks like the Linux crowd will finally get to see what Linus has been working on for Transmeta . At least, when he hasn't been indulging his penguin fet ish . I'm glad some folks are leading the way.