MSOFT versus Open Source movement

[Gordon Fitch]

Kendall Clark:
> ... 
> I started trying to use Linux in 1994 for moral reasons, and I became
> a vegetarian last year for moral reasons; the latter was much more
> difficult than the former. (Though I had my days of sheer frustration
> with learning a new, very unfriendly, back then, but less so now,
> operating system.) Maybe that's just a function of my being better at
> certain (probably otherwise useless) conceptual problems than I am at
> self-discipline and breaking a 30 year old carnivorous appetite.
> 
> I just thought with all the sociologists and economists and radicals
> on LBO, someone might be able to offer some interesting explanations
> about the asymmetry.
> ...

Just as a matter of comparison, it took me a fraction of a
second to become a vegetarian -- I never looked back -- but
it took about three days to get Debian Linux going on a PC I
have at home.  So there's more than one asymmetry here.