Please send one unit of "Linux Community" soonest.

"Linux Community" is an abstraction made up of smart articulate people, dumb inarticulate people and many, many more shades of gray, or whatever PC color you wish to choose.

Why don't you start a group like "Society of Linuxians Against Pretty Petty Email Replies" (SLAPPER!!)

Whenever a journalist is in distress, you may send him a cooperativly developed missive that will cut him with your (joint) rapier like wit while still within the bounds of dignified decorum.

There is a strong temptation in journalism to typecast and polorize, however. So don't be suprised if your reasoned response is overlooked (or just buried) in favor of Larry the Lip's pornographic turn of phrase. It's and old, old trick "THESE are the kind of scum that are opposing ME! ME! the inventor of the Internet!" Totally ignoring all the reasoned and valid comments.

Businesses have used several operating systems put together by some very young, nonconformist folks.
Why! Because it made them money, or they thought it would!

Why are IBM and many other companies putting money behind Linux? See above. And no potty mouth ranting is going to scare them away from the gold.

Hey, they have been toe to toe with the Justice Department for TEN YEARS!(in IBM's case) and beat them to a draw (Peace with honor, anyone?)

These flamers are probably just young converts that don't know that much about it. Like, ya know, they are for peace, ya know, and like Linux, ya know.

Peas, Love, Linux!