Subject: [ILUG-BOM] ZDNet article
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:00:01 +0530

"It's coolio dude !!!." wrote:

> > > Free isn't free if you have to hire an engineer
> > to run it.
> 
>    As Terence wonderfully says, Don't they aldready have
>   engineers working for them. Guess pple want everythin on a Golden Platter
> now-a-days. Too good for Microsoft.

And they'll take it from whoever offers the golden platter. And the
longer we resist going that way, the lesser our chances of making a
difference in the long run.

Wouldn't you like it if your Linux software was as easy to install as
the average Windows desktop app? Why must Linux's crumminess be a reason
to hate Windows?

>   Thats somethin thats doin the rounds for a long time, but nothin seems to have
> come outa it. I think the tremendous amount of paralell development  & the rate
> at which it is goin on will take its toll on the OS. But what the heck as long
> it's  OPen source & works perfectly nothin else matters. Another thing that

That's the point. Works perfectly. 2 digit dates worked perfectly for
half a century. Did that make them good?

> comes to my mind is that , the only reason that we have so many distros of
> Linux is so  that evryone has a choice of their Platform & the kinda enviroment
> they want to run it in.  Could we hav that on WindoZE. ???
>      Not until WindoZE went into Open source.

FreeBSD is open source too. Why don't you see multiple distros of
FreeBSD? Why are there only Free, Open and Net BSD?  Linux's model is
not just open source, it's the "release early and involve everyone"
system. Lose sight of /that/ and you're in trouble. And multiple distros
can only mean fewer people for each distro. It's acceptible now with
them mostly being the same, but don't expect it to last. SuSE's RPMs are
already incompatible with Red Hat's distro, even though they use the
same packaging system.

>       "Killing  the innovation" is Microsofts motto.

Nope. It's discovering innovations and hijacking them. If you want a
good idea of where computing is headed in the years to come, watch
Microsoft very carefully. Don't depend upon their /products/ but trust
them to know what they're doing. It'll take you a long way.

-- 

Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com

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