What Differentiates Linux from Windows?

tail.man sent in a Linux Insider piece about the difference between Linux and Windows. Quoting the synopsis "So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for."

Comments

The Difference.

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Linux does you want. Windows does what Microsoft wants.
   
2. Unless what you want is to copy and paste between applications, in which case the opposite is true.

Re:Mozilla Crash@?

[ultrabot]

I know somewhat offtopic... but the article link crashed Moz here for me.. anyone else get that? Ver 1.5

I'll AOL that.

Actually, this is a good opportunity to pinpoint all those Internet Exploder users within the slashdot community and excommunicate them once and for all.

Re:The author, Paul Murphy...

[dupper]

At first, I thought that said The Guide to Unix Defenestration. Of course, I pictured a bunch of pocket protectored Geeks toppling a server rack out of a 6th story window. Heh.

Oh, and for those who don't get this or the parent: ..."

Definition... (OT)

[Embedded Geek]

Whenever anyone presents a "definition" that is clearly loaded with bias (regardless of whether I share the bias), it makes me recall an incident with Clint Eastwood (cited here):

While he was in New York on location for Bronco Billy (1980), Clint Eastwood agreed to a television interview. His host, somewhat hostile, began by defining a Clint Eastwood picture as a violent, ruthless, lawless, and bloody piece of mayhem, and then asked Eastwood himself to define a Clint Eastwood picture.

"To me," said Eastwood calmly, "what a Clint Eastwood picture is, is one that I'm in."

It's ownership

[DangerSteel]

Microsoft owns the code to Windows

SCO owns the code to Linux

any questions? /puts on flamesuit/

Mod Troll -1

[HarveyBirdman]

One has adherents that are noisy, abusive, close-minded, stubborn, silly and the other- oh, wait a minute...

Re:Close...

[zcat_NZ]

.. That's what I used to think. Then I tried installing Redhat 9.

"somewhere inside Gnome, there's a small, fast and efficient GUI struggling to get out"

Re:Close...

[Orgazmus]

Ok, you win.
I guess calling Windows an OS here is like cursing in church ;)