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LinuxWorld: Business, Business and More Business

Posted by michael on from the no-match-for-the-power-of-the-dark-side dept.

Clarkson University wins a server from IBM. Sun is bringing embedded Linux to its UltraSparc IIe processors. Wired has an overview of LinuxWorld, talking about how it's all business and the joy is gone; and so does Internet.com; and so does Newsforge, which also has a story about LinuxWorld in Paris. The Register has a lengthy interview with Miguel de Icaza, in which he notes "Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET".

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  1. Miguel goes where most fear to tread... by PeterClark · · Score: 1, Troll
    He also had praise for the new Microsoft security model, dismissed the notion that Redmond was employing embrace and extend to its web services protocols, and put the message that the community should get over its beef with The Beast.

    I respect Miguel. Not only is he a great programmer, but he's got guts. At a time when most other observers are downplaying Microsoft's "security initiative" as market-speak and vaporware, he comes out and praises them. He's also got a keen sense of history, too. "Embrace and extend? Why should Microsoft do that?" And telling "the community" that they should "get over" Microsoft, when it has shown no signs of repenting of its monopolistic, predatory ways, well, he's convinced me!


    I suspect that most people will probably disagree with him, however.


    P.S. Any guesses on how many trolls will say, "Sure glad I use KDE! GNOME sucks!" Etc...
    :Peter

  2. Linux development cycle by Burgundy+Advocate · · Score: 0, Troll
    Here, for the first time in plain english! The Linux Software Development Cycle!

    1. Microsoft develops new technology
    2. Slashdot kiddies ridicule new technology "M$ is lame they sux and u do if u use it to" et al
    3. Developers actually try new technology
    4. Developers realize it's pretty damn cool
    5. Developers copy Microsoft's new technology
    6. Kiddies use technology, feeling l33t since it's "not microsoft"
    7. MS introduces new tech, slashdot kiddies make fun new technology...

    Wash, rinse, repeat.

    --
    Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
  3. Business + religion = boring? by electroniceric · · Score: 1, Troll
    The comment by the business guy at the end of the article was perhaps the most telling:

    "They've yet to understand we're not marketing to them but to people who actually purchase software, instead of religiously create it. They may have made Linux, but we know how to make money with it, and we just can't understand why they don't care about that."

    The sad truth of Linux "defeating Goliath" is a twist on the old Groucho quote, "I wouldn't want to belong any club that would have me."

    Linux won't "dethrone Microsoft", because people like the DIY playground aspect of Linux much more than they want a product that works for people who doesn't give a rats arse about CPU cycles, and they ain't giving up easy. And let's face it folks - all of y'all who say "Windoze doesn't do this, it's hard to do that" - y'all don't like it cause it's sanitized sheepware

    If some meteor hits the earth, and Linux really does become the desktop of ubiquity, something will be lost. You don't have to be a silly prepubescent h4x0r aiming for l33t3n3ss to be sad when the spirit of your club gets diluted by people who don't want what you want. It can be good in that once the trend comes and goes, people can go back to focusing on what really drives their interest, and you get deeper, more interesting interactions between people. One way or another Linux is acquiring a personal history.

  4. What *is* Icaza thinking? by talks_to_birds · · Score: 2, Troll
    He's sucking up to the very same buzzsaw that M$FT has been ripping everyone with, all along.

    "He also had praise for the new Microsoft security model.."

    Based upon what?

    "..dismissed the notion that Redmond was employing embrace and extend to its web services protocols.."

    Oh, yeah, right. M$FT has certainly changed it's tune...

    "..and put the message that the community should get over its beef with The Beast."

    uh.. well... Maybe he's willing to "get over it"

    It's plain he's intent on hopping into bed with Unca Bill: you can see that by the brown tones on Icaza's nose...

    t_t_b

    --
    I'm on PJ's "enemies" list! Are you?
  5. Thank God the grown-ups are now in charge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll
    The "joy" is gone? Not hardly. The joy has arrived. Now it's time for Linux to get down to business.

    The children had their run; now that all the IPO money has been frittered away, it is time to pay the bills.
    HP, Compaq, Sun, CA, Oracle, IBM, and friends are serioius about Linux and they are taking no prisoners.
    Linux is gaining momentum where it counts: with the grown-ups.