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Examining gOS With Its Ubuntu Origins In Mind
An anonymous reader writes "The history of computing is that of giants being toppled. Right now, Ubuntu is the giant of the Linux world but some have been suggesting that gOS' latest release — 3.0 "Gadgets" Beta — might be a serious challenger. Can this be true? The truth is a little more complicated, as the Ubuntu Kung Fu blog explains in its review of the new release."
But even Ubuntu doesn't "just work". It's not just about money. The guys designing the system need to "get it". So far all the linux community has been able to do is superficially copy Mac OS X the same way Windows copies Mac OS and fails.
Dude stop trying to apply logic, the linux zombies here will mod you down. The first thing you need to do is start your posts with
* "I own X computers all run *nix"
* "Dont get me wrong, I like linux but.. "
* "I prefer linux over windows, but in this case.."
Etc, you get the picture. First convince the zombies that you're one of them, and then deliver your message. In fact I can prove to you that it works quite well. :)
Good luck !
In case the zombies forget to mod me down as troll here is a nice tidbit of truth:
Linux has had over a billion dollars pumped into it and still doesn't have the market share of Windows 2000, an OS that is MORE THAN 10 years old and is no longer produced. This is hilarious !
Oh yeah, and the antitrust trials are over now. Just in case the zombies were in a coma this past decade. Any PC supplier is free to install any OS they want. They dont because nobody buys them, and the margins are razor thin. Other OEMS will undercut them and sell more PC's because people want windows on their desktop.
Linux & FSF are running out of excuses. Feel free to blame anything from OOXML to novel or ballmer for your miserable failure.
Oh yeah and in the server market, in the 90's what was *nix share? 90%? What is it now? LOL, there was initially no reason for vendors to be locked into windows, they only chose it because NT was a stable and viable platform. After killer apps from MS like Office/Exchange which pale in comparison to any user applications that FOSS has produced, and IIS 6 trampling all over Apache, the end is near ! Sure LAMP will still be around, but the Fortune 500 will for sure be engulfed by MS.