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Getting the Java Religion

Posted by Hemos on from the losing-my-religion dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Interesting article at angryCoder about java,c# and the entire .com "hype". Take a historical approach to the entire thing and brings up the following points: no business is truly altruistic, and one needs to learn from history or else."

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  1. Got me thinking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    One of the points this article makes that I agree with is that Unix is a platform of non-innovation. *nix started off as a server platform for geeks and thanks to RedHat, SUSE and the gang, are trying to work its way into the desktops of the public. How? By copying, porting or emulating anything that M$, Apple or the other innovative leaders do on the platform of choice - Windows. Sure, we have Larry Wall creating a wet-dream of a language (Perl) and keeping it fun & interesting. Sure, we have Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds and the gang keeping the Linux kernel relevant and worthwhile. But we need more! We need application innovators! We need desktop innovators! We need format innovators! We need a reason for the public to use *nix! That won't happen as long as I can't watch my .mov files (easily) or have a seamless experience with copy & paste, URL's, being able to print, etc.


    Bottom-line: We need to innovate better for the Linux platform.