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Does Open Source Software Really Work?
reflexreaction writes "This article on NewsFactor does a decent job of covering some of the issues facing Open Source Software (OSS). It points to Linux's growth area, non-mission critical projects in mid-sized companies, and its main weakness, the desktop. It also briefly discusses Linux's potential growth into mission critical applications if scalability issues are addressed. Quick easy read. My favorite quote from the article "Linux on the desktop is toast.""
The commercial opens with a distant establishing shot of a verdant country pasture bathed in early morning mists. Cut to a close-up of Steven's smiling face. We see that Steven is animated, his tongue darting out of his mouth and his eyes rolling up into his head. Cut to a medium shot. We see that Steven is fucking the Gateway cow in the ass. The cow turns and looks at the camera and says "moo". Behind a tree we see Teddy, that Gateway ponytail poofster voyeuristically wanking off. Just as Steven is about to cum he blurts out to the cow "Dude, you're getting a Dell", followed by an explosive orgasm.
Puts a new meaning to the phrase "farmer in the Dell".
As many has pointed out so far, OSS myth is fading away. The only place it makes sense and will continue so despite Linux-like trends is the academic OSS, that is, open source software that is developed within academic institutions and is traded between them.
The funniest thing I have seen so far is the programmers diversity some OSS/FS advocates would like to claim. Well, the fact that somebody has an Asian or a European or whatever name does not mean that he doesn't work for an American vendor ah?
The main problem of OSS like linux for companies, I think, is that either it isn't up to date or it's not stable (enough). The latest stable linux release (potato) is really old compared to, say, win XP (i'm not saying this one is stable, but at least a lot of people THINK it is). If you want to make linux make better use of your cutting-edge-of-technology-hardware, you'll have to use the unstable release (or at the very least the testing release). I can imagine a company doesn't like to use software that is labeled 'unstable'.
In the end I think it's a matter of who do you trust more, some people who programmed an OS in their spare time, or Bill Gates. Hard decision when lot's of money relay on that software...
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Hi there, only a few % of the computer using population are linux geeks who just like to use complex systems for showing of, and for looking down a users. i am an experienced programmer, but is still want to be able to instal an os by insterting the cd and clicking a few times. i don't want a 20 yr old text interface with lots and lots of options that are of no direct relevance. i don't want to use command line strings to configure every card in my pc, i want my os to automatically detect everything that is in the case. wtf should we need the command line anymore? also if you put the basic gaphics thing in the kernel, everything would look the same, and you would not have this Xwindows Gnome KDE crap. if linux would have a user friendly install interface and proper GUI i would use it.
Niggux
Linux is programmed by the customers/users themselves.
No. Linux is programmed by geeks, for geeks. The average customer/user has neither the time nor the inclination to program it themselves.
"Information wants to be paid"
"Information wants to be paid"
Coincidently, the black guy that fucked your mom right before I did last night paid her with food stamps.
BTW, she was a lousy fuck. She's so stretched out from all those big black cocks, it's like throwing open the garage door and trying to fuck the world. I want my two dollars back.
"You're just scared like a little white pussy. I'll fuck you till you love me, you faggot!"
...bloated system requirements...
*Cough* KDE or Gnome + Star/Open Office *Cough*
A combination which will bring a machine to its knees with constant swapfiling and slow sssllllooowwwww running.
The same machine will quite happily and quickly run Windows and Microsoft Office without any difficulty or memory issues whatsoever.
Pot. Kettle.
"Information wants to be paid"