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Alan Cox: The Battle for the Desktop
richjones writes: "There's a new interview with Alan Cox up. I think he's right on the money with how Linux is going to spread into businesses, but he seems to think Internet applications are going to be big with consumers... I can't really see it... but he's Alan Cox, so he must know :)"
There's a new interview with Anal Cox up. I think he's right on the money with how his penis is going to spread into assholes, but he seems to think homosexual applications are going to be big with consumers... I can't really see it... but he's Anal Cox, so he must know :)
How exactly is this off topic?!?
Really, if you want false hope, you could believe what he wrote.
I do not know a single company standardizing on Linux for desktops.
It has not happened in the past. Its not happening now. It will not happen in the future.
Linux costs too much in terms of productivity from the secretary all the way up to programmer.
The only time I ever saw Linux on a desktop was when someone left a Redhat CD on their desk at work.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
Part of Alan Cox's job requirement is to blow smoke up the ass of Linux users. "Of course we're going to win the battle for the desktop" as if he is going to tell you how inane that idea is. The rallying cry is to oust Windows from the world of desktop PCs and stand up for...yadda yadda. It isn't going to happen, any chance Linux ever gets to be TRUELY mainstream is going to fail because it is going to trip over all the fucking baggage it is going to be carrying with it. Drop the baggage and you get alot leaner and more robust.
.02% of Windows PCs. Hot damn someone call someone! The day Linux stops playing catch up to the rest of the world is the day is does something impressive. Open source has been shown to work when it comes to developing a complex project (not to say it is the only way that works or is even an efficient way, it merely works) but in order to make a difference you need to be innovative! Like I said drop the baggage and you'll get somewhere. Repackaging the same old shit and calling it version 2.0 is the SAME thing commercial software vendors get berated for yet the irony is lost on Linux users.
The interface is baggage, the toolset is baggage, and most certainly the fanatical religious users are baggage. The command line is a good tool, it makes sense with a computer in fact. For some people typing commands is much faster than pointing and clicking can ever be. Just for the sake of geek tradition should these commands be two or three letter abbriviations that often times don't make sense in the slightest? No. Natural language is what a GUI is all about, icons take the place of more complex structures because they are easier to understand and deal with. The same ought to be true of console shells, the language I would use to tell someone to do something should be damn similar to the one I tell a computer to do something. The GNU tools are old, the concept is worn out get the fucking net. Archaic interfaces are fine for technical folks who've got little else to do than worry about the intricacies of interfacing with a computer. They don't fly with people who don't give a fuck.
Linux stories are always about Linux playing catch up and pulling hopeful statistics out of the ass of someone. Alan makes a comment about a site replacing computers with 20,000 Linux based systems. Oh wow
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
I submitted this mother fucker HOW LONG ago?
UPDATE ask slashdot for christs sake!
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