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An Open Source Tipping Point?
jg21 writes "Over at LinuxWorld there's an article arguing that open source will be propelled to market predominance by the same disruptive mechanism that brought Sony, Microsoft, and others to be market leaders at the moment. 'The improbable is possible - leaders have been dethroned in the past,' writes the author, who is also apparently the producer of an upcoming documentary entitled, 'The Digital Tipping Point' to be released in September 2005. The story refers to a corroborating article from South Africa and to Clayton Christensen's Seeing What's Next which backs up this general idea."
I am won over by the sheer persuasive logic of your argument. I SUBMIT!
Let's get back to reality people.
With almost 100% of the market, Microsoft has nothing to worry about from the "open sores" community. You guys write poor code, you are too disorganized and you fight amongst yourselves more often than you fight us. Apple has permanently destroyed any chance of making the best Unix be under the GPL, and Microsoft continues to show why Windows is cheaper and more secure than anything the open sores community can come up with. In short, your collective asses are grass and Bill Gates is driving a big ole lawn mower named Longhorn.
Just kidding.
Not only is she dumb, but she's ugly. As in "hard on the eyes".
Sorry if that's a slam, but the woman literally makes up stuff in an article, puts her picture like a vulture, and I'm supposed to think "oh wow, she's not well thought out".
Nope, I'm thinking STUPID FUCKING WHORE!
Admit it, you are thinking the same thing.
Fuck you, cracker bitch!!!!
The raggedy saliva-smeared anuses of your thinly-veiled white supremacist hegemony will be torn asunder before the mighty and heroically-girthed Gay Nigger cocks of the GNAA!!
GNAA!!! GNAA!!! GNAA!!! GNAA!!! GNAA!!! GNAA!!!
I've never tried XUL but from what I read it sounds pretty good.
But I've always thought, for as long as I can remember, that the best way to help Linux is to write your applications in Java.
The backers of Java are very powerful, IBM, Sun, BEA, Oracle. The list goes on.
If Java truly would be write once, run anywhere and if Java gets fast enough (it is pretty fast now already but it is fighting a common notion that it is slow) then the operating system becomes irrelevant. This is why MS worked so hard on undermining Java.
So everytime people advocate Perl and PHP and other toy languages (Yes, that's right, I said toy languages. And spare me the flames. I will take this back if you show me a PHP or Perl application server which is comparable to BEA WebLogic) I feel as if it is an opportunity lost for Linux.
I have heard people say that the terrorists of the world wants Kerry to win. Well, Microsoft would rather that you used Perl and PHP than Java.
Hence, use Java if you want to promote Linux.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!