"Hi, I'm a Mac. I am way cool."
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| I'm GNU Linux," the voice replies.
|
| PC looks relieved. "Finally, I know how to pronounce Linux. It rhymes
| with cynics. But what's the GNU stand for?"
|
| "Gnu's Not Unix," Linux replies. "Unix is proprietary, and I'm not
| into that. But I do enjoy recursive acronyms."
|
| Mac speaks up. "I bet you're hiding because you don't want us to
| see you, homely geek that you are. You're scared we'll make fun
| of your pocket protector and your bizarre command-line stuff like
| 'cat' and 'ls."'
|
| Linux laughs, but it sounds menacing. "Hey Mac, at your heart,
| you're running BSD, which is a Unix-like operating system, just
| like me. But to most people, it's as invisible as I am."
|
| PC keeps looking around for the source of the voice. "You're
| just a tiny little cult, aren't you?"
|
| Linux responds. "PC, that little wireless router you use to
| connect to the Internet runs a variety of Linux. When you
| search with Google, you're dealing with a Linux cluster. Most
| web servers run Linux. I'm in a lot of places. If I shut down,
| both of you guys would be in a world of hurt."
|
| "But you're not going to shut down, are you?" Mac asks
| plaintively.
|
| "Not if you do what I ask," Linux says.
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