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Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline
nerdyH writes "As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits. Recently, it came home, with the software giant announcing its first-ever layoffs. LinuxDevices interviewed Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin on Linux's role in Microsoft's misfortunes. Zemlin sums it up pretty well: 'Companies can offer their own branded software platform based on Linux. If Microsoft is getting 75 percent margins, you would like some of that high-margin business, too.'"
Obama is president now, there is no crisis.
Also Linux is ran by hippies, who most likely caused the economic crisis in the first place. Pretty sure Linux hippies caused the dot-com crash too.
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Hi, I'm Matthew. I use linux as my primary operating system. Nicetameecha.
I know Slashdotters didn't write this ridiculous story, but even posting it is a joke. Its like posting a story that Harley has a key in the big-3s downfall. I'm so tired of slashdot's support of buzzwords articles and think tank mentality... MS evil, any other piece of crap is automatically good... Vista bad, Win 7 good.... this site has become a flippin joke... I still laugh about the article posted a few months back which claimed Usenet is a dead technology.
I HIGHLY doubt that with the general ineptness of Linux, and the great difficulty of using this operating system, that it will be significantly cutting into Windows market share. Consumers just want to buy a hardware device, plug it in, click install and use it with no hassles. They just want to buy a software program, click install and use it with no hassles. Linux still does not realise how important program and driver ABI backwards compatability is, and how important it is to provide stable versions of these. As such using software and hardware is still very difficult on linux and what gnome and ubuntu has done has made it worse, by removing features and flexibility. users want features and flexibility but they do not want to spend hours trying to figure out why some crappy driver doesnt work or fiddling with arcane configuration files. Linux is worth your time if you time is worth nothing, Generally it takes 10 times as long to do anything on Linux and getting it to work the way you want is a major headache, its both hard to configure and inflexible adn wont let you make it work how you want it to without a big fight. Its basically worthless unless you are someone who likes to spend hours doung what takes a minute on windows to do, if you are a geek who enjoys such abuses and torments trying to figure out why something doesnt work right or the whole mess that Linux is of broken dependancies and library and driver chaos.
1. Windows has two graphics/video backends, both have serious problems. The major container format is limited to 2GB, for example. You have to add on additional stuff to get other container formats (like ogm and mkv). You can also use all the same video decoders on Windows, without either of them, by just creating an overlay.
2. There's some that are cuter. They aren't the most popular. Make of that what you will, but I think this is the least significant issue facing Linux adoption. Which leads me to 3.
3. KDE isn't bloated, it's pretty light, but it is overcomplicated. The interface is way too busy. GNOME comes simple by default, but if you use Compiz+Emerald you can have all the functionality (more than Windows or OSX) and eye candy (likewise) that you can handle. Now Windows and OSX, they are bloated. OSX is a bigger shame to me because of what it came from. NeXTStep was pretty peppy on a 68040, with what, 64MB? 128? OSX is slow on a Dual G5 (I sat at one for months.) NOTHING is responsive. I will grant you, however, that XP is usually more responsive than GNOME :( In particular, Nautilus is like some kind of steam-driven engine from the victorian era.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. Some kind of specifics would provide some evidence that you indeed have some sort of point...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
>I wish people would educate themselves on the notion of what it means to be a federation of states.
What it means is that Big Companies can play one state against another and score massive subsidies while small businesses can't.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
I guess most Americans just like getting screwed.
Why do you think they voted for Obama?
Consider yourself spoken to.
Yeah, and Grandma will soon be using Linux, right? Dream on, fanboy.
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