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Linux, Inc.

Posted by michael on from the amalgamated-and-homogenized dept.

An anonymous reader sends in a link to Businessweek talking about the business of Linux, and the increasing threat to Microsoft's operating system monopoly.

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  1. Wonder why they left out.... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The software is making its way into everything from Motorola (MOT ) cell phones and Mitsubishi robots to eBay (EBAY ) servers and the NASA supercomputers that run space-shuttle simulations.

    Google. That would've helped to shake up the PHBs a little more effectively, given this is BusinessWeek.

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  2. Re:Linux Desktop Thoughts... by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's stopping someone from writing an entire environment like OS X from the ground up, around and on top of Linux, and creating an OS X like environment that is as complete and modern as either OS X or Windows?

    Nothing at all. Get started, I wish you luck on that.

    IMO, something as polished as OSX or Windows can only be created in a corporate setting. There are too many egos wanting different things, it'd be impossible to get a team of 100 coders to all agree to work towards the same set of goals. One guy wants X, another wants Y.

    There comes a point when you need someone to say "we're going with X, like it or find another job."

    There's more than enough talent to get the job done, but not nearly enough leadership, or talented people who are willing to volunteer their time to take orders to create something - even if it's not exactly what they want to create.

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