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This must be made up, because the person admits to trying out Linux then goes on a ridiculously over the top pro Microsoft slant (without argumentation). Somebody so clueless wouldn't even know (if) they tried out Linux in college...

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Two possibilities come to mind: Satire, as mentioned by other people, or the original teacher is lying about having used Linux. As anybody who has been around on the internet (or BBS or Usenet or...) for a while has learned, some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true. (Maybe.)

...some people take a very scorched-earth approach to argumentation, and if lying about having tried Linux bolsters the argument, in it goes, regardless of whether it's true.

I find this idea onerous, though I strongly suspect it's true.

I wonder if someone could start a public forum that's a "Truth Zone?" Is it even possible? Wikipedia works well enough. Maybe their techniques would enable this?

It's also possible that the she was forced to use Unix in college. As she is not a techie, and probably wouldn't pay a very large amount of attention to the details, mixed the two up.

The way I read it she had to use the command line when she was in college, and thinks the GUI is "stolen" from Windows. (Hence the concern about legality)

Somebody that clueless would probably confuse telnetting into a Unix box and checking their email with PINE (common in colleges before webmail) with "trying Linux" in college.

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