Re: tlug: Mounting my cdrom's

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 masatomo@example.com wrote:

> I don't drink. But I support Asahi Super Dry. More than ten years ago
>Japanese beer market was occupied by Kirin. It was like Microsoft. Asahi
>challenged this situation with Super Dry. Asahi's attitude resembles to
>Linux, doesn't it?

Congratulations on actually making a Linux tie-in with this thread :-)
However, I can't agree that Asahi is like Linux.  The Linux attitude is about
providing a very high-quality product, the best that can be done, and
(usually) making the source available to everyone.  Asahi, on the other hand,
produces a really poor beer - made cheap, not good - and the recipe is (AFAIK)
proprietary, so we can't even find out what brewing shorcuts and cheap
materials they use to make it, so we can't even make a bug-fix patch for the
Asahi recipe and improve it :-)

Kirin and Sapporo are actually more like UNIX - good design engineering,
top-quality ingredients, more complex but totally reliable.  Asahi is more
like MS - make a cheaper product, advertise it a lot and tell everybody it's
the greatest thing around, and lots of people who don't know any better get
suckered into thinking it's good :-)

You see, this is why the penguin in the Sparc version of Linux has a beer in
its hand :-)

Cheers (so to speak),

Jonathan Byrne
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