I agree (kind of) if you are going to inplement a secure or a secret application of just keep it secert. The point about choosing open source is to get the people who use there own OS to biuld there own OS insted of having to fork out good cash to get some one else built for you
I don't know about you but the last time went to buy a computer. I had loads of choice about who made the keyboard the box bit (sorry don't know what it's called) and the screen (and probably other stuff like that as well). But I could only get MS windows and MS word and MS whatever and here is my last three months wages Mr. Gates.
I think that LINUX will remain marginal on the descktop computer because it new to most people. I tried using it and it looks feels and works differently from MS. This means I have to relearn how to use my computer I don't perticulary want to. It also means that until I am use to using Linux, Linux OS much harder to use then MS. This is why Linux will remain marginal because to the layman the jump from Ms to Linux is huge and effect every aplication on there computer.
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I agree (kind of) if you are going to inplement a secure or a secret application of just keep it secert. The point about choosing open source is to get the people who use there own OS to biuld there own OS insted of having to fork out good cash to get some one else built for you
I don't know about you but the last time went to buy a computer. I had loads of choice about who made the keyboard the box bit (sorry don't know what it's called) and the screen (and probably other stuff like that as well). But I could only get MS windows and MS word and MS whatever and here is my last three months wages Mr. Gates.
I think that LINUX will remain marginal on the descktop computer because it new to most people. I tried using it and it looks feels and works differently from MS. This means I have to relearn how to use my computer I don't perticulary want to. It also means that until I am use to using Linux, Linux OS much harder to use then MS. This is why Linux will remain marginal because to the layman the jump from Ms to Linux is huge and effect every aplication on there computer.