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Linux Can't Kill Windows
nberardi writes "Infoworld is running an article in which the author claims 'Linux is established and has a niche that, as various pendulums swing, will grow and shrink. Show me charts and stats and benchmarks that prove Linux superior to Windows in every measure and I'll not argue with you. But no matter how much money and dedication is poured into Linux, it will never put a dent in Windows' mind share or market share because Linux is an operating system, a way -- and probably the best way -- to make system hardware do what it's told. But you can't turn Linux into a platform even if you brand it, box it, and put a pricey sticker on it.'"
Let's start with the unsensational headline of "Linux Can't Kill Windows", follow through the article to no rational arguments as to why this is, and ending with a "Stay tuned; I'll tell you all about it."
Seems like a well-thought out article that certainly wasn't created for the purpose of increasing impressions or generating clicks to advertisers on the site.
I'm a big tall mofo.
I didn't read the article.
you must be old here.
> What does branding it, boxing it and putting on a price tag, have to do with a tool doing a job?
Who? The editor?
It won't kill Windows. But it certainly will kill BSD. BSD is dying.
Well, look at the bright side, at least we haven't seen this one before!
Nice one.... Well nice bit of copyright infringement (??) anyway ;-)
I watched windows kill itself on my buddy's laptop twice tonight.
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Step 1. Run Bochs or VMWare.
Step 2. Install Windows on [Bochs|VMWare] environment.
Step 3. Run it.
Step 4. kill -9 `ps ax | grep [bochs|vmware]
Step 5. Sing "tadaaaa".
Step 6. Skip the question marks and profit.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Linux Can't Kill Windows
I see someone didn't try to dual boot Fedora Core 2
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
What's this DLL hell everyone speaks of? I know what it would implicate, but I've never in my life had a DLL problem such as that in Windows.
It will be replaced by mentats.
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
Yet.
Give them chance.
You can kill almost anything with the -9 switch.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Most likely they will use the mouse as a slingshot and head back into the jungle.
Reminds me of this Onion article.
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..... would kick every other Unix's ass was from RMS at a party... in 1990
My God!!! RMS was at a party???
No, the problem is that you aren't being sufficiently proactive in shifting your paradigm to thinking outside the box like the author clearly has. What does scalability mean? I don't know, but I saw an IBM commercial about it during the Super Bowl, so I figure that qualifies me to write an article about it.
You party with RMS? That's either cool, or very, very sad. :)
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The 'stupid fundamentalism' being perpetuated by those 'ignorant crazies' whose primary drive is keep Free Software Free?
Those near-sighted bastards.....
Windows was never going to kill DOS because DOS had all these applications and people already knew how to use them. In addition, users had to use different software and buy one of those mouse things that only Apple users cared about.
So, Windows will never kill DOS. It may gain a small market share of techno-geeks that just like playing with the newest toys, but, the majority of the market will stay with what they already know.
Oh, wait...
I typed the above message into Microsoft Word 2000 in order to use the integrated spelling checker.
When I cut and pasted the text from Word to the Slashdot message text box, none of the apostrophes transferred correctly. All the "don't" and "won't" became "dont" and "wont".
Any operating system that makes its users look illiterate is doomed. It's just a matter of time.
That sounds like an advertisement:
Announcer: We're here at the Vigneswara Call Processing Center in Bangalore, India, where we've secretly replaced the customer service reps' Windows XP with Linux. Let's listen in.
Operator: Wow! That went completely smoothly.
Announcer: Did you know we replaced your Windows with Linux?
Operator: Impossible! Where's the bitter CLI taste?
Announcer (tapping the keyboard a few times): Right here!
Operator: Amazing! Can I work a third consecutive shift please?
Supervisor (shocked): they never ask for a third shift with Windows!
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Yes Linux IS all about choice. . . unless you choose something other than what the "masses" use. Then you are ridiculed for your choice :)
"What, you use fedora core. . . why are you using such a dumb and bloated distro? You must be some noob moron who can't think for themselves"
"What, you use GENTOO!!! Man I guess you must be a glutton for punishment and some kind of stupid anal retentive nut job who likes to do everything in the most difficult and painful manner possible"
"What, you prefer vi over nano!!! Man what are you, some kind of idiot who's a glutton for pain!!??!!??"
Well, from the looks of your website, perhaps you should have ran for the hills as well.
Linux is the manifestation of Ayn Rand's 'rebellion of the intellect' projected in Atlas Shrugged.
I was surprised for a second to see what is half-correctly described as a "Communist" project in the role of something from Rand. Then I realized that you're correct. The strike doesn't need to involve a laissez-faire economy; it just requires a radical change from the corrupt status quo. If that's a change from a monopolized market economy to an open-source change of ideas, so be it. The strikers still refuse to work with the Old Guard.
The one thing they need now is the concept of "intellectual property." Companies today, e.g., SCO, go so far as to claim that IP cannot be voluntarily freed (remember "the GPL violates the copyright clause of the Constitution"?), just as those from AS tried to force Rearden to release his rights to Rearden Metal. Those from Galt's Gulch set up a system strongly based on private property; the OSS hackers have a system based on voluntary and unrecompensed donations to the community. It may be the opposite economy, but it's the same underlying idea.
When we see the blinkenlights of New York go out from the next Windows vulnerability, we will know that our job is done.