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Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage

Posted by Zonk on from the fair-play-is-for-the-birds dept.

Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "Outspoken IT consultant John H. Terpstra believes that Microsoft and electronics manufacturers are working together to hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop. In a three part series, he tells a story about how two guys trying to buy Linux desktops found they were overpriced, and lacked certain tools. He then describes how Microsoft uses its considerable resources and the law to create such roadblocks. (Part 2, Part 3)"

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  1. Re:Another bit of FUD here... by ShawnX · · Score: 1, Redundant

    > The ONLY thing killing Linux on the desktop is Linux. XOrg and XFree86 and their ongoing back and forth pecadillos

    Excuse me while I chuckle. Xorg and XFree86 aren't fighting anymore. For all intensive purposes XFree86 is dead the world has pretty much forgotten XFree86 and moved to Xorg - The home of the X Window System and X Window System specification -

    > KDE's zealot army of moronic children screaming the leetness of their preference, Gnome's less than stellar array of boosters, and both desktops' having little to no clue towards stability and regularity are merely the tip of the iceberg.

    Go look at freedesktop.org before you try to critize KDE and GNOME. You really don't know whats going on. Go look at whats in-store for KDE 4 and how GNOME and KDE are beginning to bridge the gaps (DCOP vs D-BUS). Go look at the Usability projects going on. Go look at whats in-store for Xorg and improvements to video drivers.

    > The neverending foreverwar over what goes in the kernel

    Sure, theres arguments but in the long run, this what Open Source is all about. I don't want crap added to the kernel if its not justified.

    Whats really hurting the Desktop is vendors making it difficult to disclose information to write drivers. Legacy crud in X has problems and people are beginning to fix them. You certainly may not blame X for the problems either. 20 years of mostly neglected code doesn't help when your madly rushing to catch up to today's hardware and such. Instead of bitching I don't see you helping out.

    It's 2:30am, and your post touched a nerve with me and that doesn't happen too often.

    Shawn.

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