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What's up with Lindows?
A reader writes "In this editorial at DesktopLinux.com, commentator Malcolm Dean questions whether Lindows is any sort of linux at all, and suggests that the world might actually be better off without yet another proprietary/commercial Windows wannabe (that runs Windows apps, no less). Dean asks how it is possible that, as Lindows.com founder Michael Robertson manages to claims in his latest newsletter, Lindows' ten million lines of code include a Windows Compatibility Module that somehow works better than anything else available today. "Has Mr. Robertson's team accomplished in a few months what took WINE years?" Where is the substance to back the hype? Besides, what if Lindows does succeed: do we really want to perpetuate the use of Windows software on a linux platform?"
I guess we now know happened to all that stolen M$ source code.;-)
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
How many people are in the team? You know, the linux kernel has like 30 millions lines of code, which have been coded by many talented programmers, matured through the years, and then this guy claims that his product has 10 million lines of code in A FEW MONTHS?! wow.
Or has he already made Lindows so "Windows Compatiable" that even the whole team/company emulates Microsoft in all aspects? Maybe he's just a clone of Bill.
Don't quote me on this.
I for one, dont want to see it ever happen.
this will no nothing but encourage M$ to do more harm.
now.. do we want any more buggy M$ type software running loose? I think not.
bet: this ever gets released, and works..
microsoft will:
A. sue.
B. make all their applications break on lindows.
if its more stable they will:
A. install lindows on all their machines.
B. use it to make more borg software
oh well, looks like we will lose anyhow.
That gets expensive at upgrade time though. :-) You need one computer for the wife, one (or two) computers for the kids, one computer for Windows (for you), one computer for Linux, an old system for your firewall, another old computer with a ton of disk for a dedicated fileserver holding your MP3s to serve up to your Turtle Beach Audiotron in your stereo system, a bunch of old Sparcstations because well.. you're a geek right? Then there's the damned Alphastation 200 you bought 5 years ago to play with AlphaLinux on and pretty soon you have no room for any of this shit and your electric bill is $200/month for computer equipment. :-) Or at least, that's what happened when I didn't hold back on the computer stuff. I can't believe some families have one PC. Sheesh.
Haven't we learned anything from OS/2? Without Windows compatibility OS/2 would have failed miserably. Oh wait, it did fail miserably. Sorry, I must have been thinking of something else...
For a long time I've been saying that in the future there will be no linux users or vegetarians, and the world will be ruled by a company called McAOLSoft.
Dump linux, use AOL and eat hamburgers