Here’s an episode of the Computer Chronicles circa 1985, about Unix.

It’s funny how nothing has changed; it was about to “take over” the dominance of MS-DOS.

Especially hilarious is how the hosts ask the purveyors of Unix “why would I want to use this” and the Unix-types could only say, “but we can make it look just like [insert OS name]“.

The hosts then ask if that’s all it has going for it, and if that’s the case, why they would choose it over the OS that is being copied.

Be sure to check out the anti-Unix editorial section at 21:54

http://www.archive.org/details/UNIX1985

It’s just people play the “cowardice” card when faced with an argument they don’t like and can’t refute. Either that, or they’re after fame, and imho, looking for “fame” through a Linux blog says a lot more about that person, than it does about someone who doesn’t fancy plastering their name everywhere.

Seeing as how your viewpoints don’t really diverge very much overall, aside from perhaps Lunduke being Diet-LH and you being somewhere in between (and much more adept at the writing and conveying an idea aspect), and he wants to debate and on his show, no less, just screams “attention whore” to me. You don’t generally “debate” when there’s no diverging viewpoint. There just isn’t anything to debate.

The fact that he’s got to harass and “challenge” people to get anyone on his show also underscores his complete lack of originality and shows just how uncreative, uninteresting and unworthwhile he and his show are, too.

I’ve hosted many a website and released a lot of code without using my real name – not through ‘cowardice’ but because it’s never occurred to me to use it.

Even at that, it’s just a thinly veiled front for a desperate grab for attention and publicity for his show that nobody watches, which in turn, is also a thinly veiled grab for attention.