Despite the obvious incitement I can't help but take the bait. Let us for a moment grossly generalize and stereotype. Linux is not for the masses, with the exception of perhaps Ubuntu desktop Linux or enterprise Linux, but forget the debate. Forget the comparisons, the support, the fragmentation, the software, the games and the opinions. Which technological revolution was started by the person who did nothing but incessantly play games or spend their life watching movies and series? Who last heard their grandmother passionately relate a story of converting her cake recipe’s British units to metric units with an intricate combination of sed and grep? What petrol head ever built a kit car with the intention of competing with BMW or Ford?
Linux is not a beautiful and unique snowflake. Linux doesn’t appeal to n00b because it is hard and unfamiliar, but I tell you what, every real user has learnt something and in most cases a lot. Linux may not have the volume of deployment, but it holds far more IT intellectual capital in its users than the mainstream OSes. Linux is about passion and innovation and doesn’t need global domination to be meaningful. It’s about learning something, extending someone else’s work and having the same returned. With Linux the pride of hacking is submitting a kernel patch or fixing a vulnerability just because you can, while the pride of hacking the world’s leading OS is in exploiting a vulnerability, just because you can.
Feel free to class me as part the fiercely ideological open-source community. The author of this article and those that think as he does, are like those short sighted bottom feeders that think Java can be suffocated, but beware the revolution of the open-source geeks. While you’re numbing the minds of the masses with swish click interfaces and plug-in hardware, we’re the ones you depend on to build your devices and control your world.
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Despite the obvious incitement I can't help but take the bait. Let us for a moment grossly generalize and stereotype. Linux is not for the masses, with the exception of perhaps Ubuntu desktop Linux or enterprise Linux, but forget the debate. Forget the comparisons, the support, the fragmentation, the software, the games and the opinions. Which technological revolution was started by the person who did nothing but incessantly play games or spend their life watching movies and series? Who last heard their grandmother passionately relate a story of converting her cake recipe’s British units to metric units with an intricate combination of sed and grep? What petrol head ever built a kit car with the intention of competing with BMW or Ford?
Linux is not a beautiful and unique snowflake. Linux doesn’t appeal to n00b because it is hard and unfamiliar, but I tell you what, every real user has learnt something and in most cases a lot. Linux may not have the volume of deployment, but it holds far more IT intellectual capital in its users than the mainstream OSes. Linux is about passion and innovation and doesn’t need global domination to be meaningful. It’s about learning something, extending someone else’s work and having the same returned. With Linux the pride of hacking is submitting a kernel patch or fixing a vulnerability just because you can, while the pride of hacking the world’s leading OS is in exploiting a vulnerability, just because you can.
Feel free to class me as part the fiercely ideological open-source community. The author of this article and those that think as he does, are like those short sighted bottom feeders that think Java can be suffocated, but beware the revolution of the open-source geeks. While you’re numbing the minds of the masses with swish click interfaces and plug-in hardware, we’re the ones you depend on to build your devices and control your world.