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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 made of fried chicken grease and pig shit, just like any other black burr-head spook barbarian. Our nation could be so much better off if we just got rid of these mongrel animals, just send the apes back to the trees where they belong. But I don't see that happening any time soon, now that our president is a chimp in a business suit. Oh well, c'est la vie.
Yours in Christ,
Hal Turner
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.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Vista and the Xbox360 ate their profits, not Linux.
I love reading articles about how Linux is really shaking things up on the desktop (or is it laptop now?) yet I've still never met a single person that uses Linux as their primary OS. I know several people who claim to use it daily (eg. they run a VM), I also know many people using it for hosting or specialized purposes (including myself) but Linux's real-world usage on the desktop is a mystifying thing. We brag about how its making inroads and how its impacting the marketplace but we rarely see it in person.
In my opinion, until Linux gets a unified interface, a sane way of installing applications and dealing with dependancies and manages some actual commercial support I just don't see it appealing to the average consumer. That's not to say it won't find a niche in specialized devices (which practically describes the netbook movement) in addition to its strong position in the server and hobbyist markets, but I would suggest that Linux as a replacement for Windows or the Mac OS on the desktop seems very unlikely to me. Almost as unlikely as it having any significant role in Microsoft's presumed decline.
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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...
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As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits.
Losses are teh suxx0rz. Then what they should do is an Apple-like move. Apple chucked its dinosaur-aged OS that only five programmers knew how to code for, and replaced it with a totally h4x0r'd Mach/FreeBSD system with a non-X GUI on top. MS should do the same. Chuck the OS. Download Ubuntu. Chuck GNOME. Write a GUI called 11. That's kind of like X11 but without the X. That goes along well with Windows 7 because 7 and 11 give you 7-11, like the convenience store. People need to associate computers with Windows with convenience, and this would totally do that image. It would be totally built from the ground up to look like Windows but act like UNIX. Then they can make a plug-in OS compatibility architecture that runs apps from DOS, the Win9x series, and the Win2000/XP/Vista series. Then they'll have to call it GNU/Lindows 7-11. I don't care that MS is a trillion dollar a minute company. I, a idiot from Kansas City who's on /. on a sat night instead of going out (because I have no friends) am giving them the correct advice, advice they should follow. Because when you're highly successful, you should take advice from those who aren't.
>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?
Get the facts.
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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