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Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux
Onymous Hero writes "The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. An article from eWeek looks at why Linux has been so successful where Unix failed." From the article: "While the Unix companies were busy ripping each other to shreds, Microsoft was smiling all the way to the bank. Because the Unix businesses couldn't settle on software development standards, ISVs (independent software vendors) had to write not a single application to get the whole Unix market, they had to write up to a half-dozen different versions. Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems? "
Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?
Well let me think... I'll write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, after they pry my cold dead fingers off my smoking gun.
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
That is still only two, he counted SCO as still being "in the UNIX business".
haha I know this is off topic, but...
When clicking on the story to ready it, there was a sun ad saying "With their evil systems, it's no wonder their name rhymes with hell"
haha Classy.
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
LSB may be fundamentally broken, but just wait for LSC, which will almost work. And then, emerging from the smoking ashes of LSC, after much pain and labor, we'll have LSD. And LSD is going to be faaaaaar out.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
The penguin will smash the Windows and will find Bill Gates and stick that goddamned paperclip into any one of his open orifaces.
TUX 4 LIFE
Would you rather have 1 tyrant (Bill Gates) 3,000 miles away or 3,000 tyrants (open sourcers) 1 mile away?
Cogito Ergo Sum
Are you suggesting that there's a better way than writing everything for the curses library?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
There can't be a competition because Windows WILL NOT permit Linux's existance to continue. Given the oppurtunity, Microsoft will kill Linux. They just haven't figured out how. So Linux's continued existence and Microsoft's continued existence are mutually exclusive. For Linux or any other F/OSS Operating system to survive, Microsoft has to collapse, be split up or something....
Make no mistake, THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IS NESSESSARY TO KILL US!
Hey, SCO is still in the Unix business!
...the way a tapeworm is in a dog...
'Sensible' is a curse word.
The O/S vendors look like the back of my amp: MIC, AUX, LIN
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
An employee suggested to me that we install Windows XP on a few machines here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using Windows XP instead of a (arguably) harder to use Linux distro. I decided to let him install it on 5 machines to see how the employees got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using Windows at home and he hadn't reported any problems - why not try it on our employees?
Once he'd got the employees up and running with Windows we let them try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: The Windows systems were a pretty good replacement for some of the Linux boxen we'd used before and the employees could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from our employees. Users could not do things they could before (like use gcc). The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when OpenOffice suddenly froze up, destroying the 70 page legal document he had been working on.
Needless to say, Redmont, having been stagnant for half a decade, offered no support whatsoever. I dismissed the employee and made him remove the Windows systems before he left.
...Still using Linux? (version 8.6.12-ac3) You bet I am.
You mean Alan Cox will still be patching the kernel?
Don't think so. It's been in the kernel since 2.6.12.Now, whether userland apps take advantage of it or not is a different story.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
No the -ac branch is the new fork maintained on slashdot by Anonymous Cowards. It's the kernel of choice for Gay Niggers, Natalie Portman and deceased members of the BSD community.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Linux may still be around in the next century.... but I don't think a 130 year-old Alan Cox will...
I think it would have been better to simply pretend you were making a joke on this one...