...but a buddy of mine worked at LinuxCare for a scant couple months, and left saying they "don't have their sh*t together." Anybody have other inside scoop that might confirm/deny this?
Of all the variables in this equation, the supreme court is by far the slowest-changing. In the time it takes to substantially alter the makeup of the US Supreme court, we could suffer under the yoke of Microsoft's "enhanced" "standards" through several generations of new technology.
In general, I say don't write off the Supremes on ideological ground. Their ideological predispositions may be conservative, but on average I've seen them make good legal decisions -- and on factual grounds this case is an easy call.
"The so-called Linux system", as he puts it, is not "so-called", but it actually exists.
Good point! And it got me thinking:
Back in the dark ages, lo these dozen years ago, RMS and his dedicated folk were working on creating a free OS. They did some great work, but for reasons that aren't important, they didn't ship a working OS. The early days of the *BSD movement, right after the opening of the BSD license, felt (at least to me at the time) like the same story: "Hey guys, look at my 80% of a car! Well, no, it doesn't exactly roll yet..."
Linus's key contribution, in the end, was'nt the kernel, but the _methodology_, the way of leveraging the emerging breadth of the Internet to get everyone working on the same goal. Despite the volume of GNU's contribution to Linux, it's not the _code_ that defines the OS; it's the culture of teamwork that got it to actualy GO!
Despite all the best intentions and a brain the size of a 1966 Cadillac, RMS is (IMHO) uniquely UNqualified to inspire the kind of work it took to get Linux integrated. Everyone involved in GNU should get kudos for their great code, but the defining, name-worthy characteristic of Linux -- what got it to "actually exist" -- is Linus and his people-skills.
A buddy of mine just got a 505TX; says RedHat 5.2 loaded up on it flawlessly. I'm gettin' one any day now myself. I hope somebody smarter than me is working on USB support....
I've had my original Leatherman Tool for seven years. It even got run over by a truck once (the ludicrously steel-reinforced ones used by a good off-site media storage service), and it's still in great shape. Most of the newer offshoots have more moving parts, which doesn't make me feel like they'd take such a beating -- though I'll admit I occasionally long for locking blades....
One day last month I left it at home and I almost melted down of insecurity by the time I finished my work-day. I feel like Less of a Man (TM) without it.
Hey, I'm not ready to put Linux on my mom's Mac either, but the point of the article stands.
The reason this objective piece can be so persuasive is that it focuses on the server world. In the server world, Linux is legitimately kicking NT's butt, so if you want to claim victory do it in the server world. On the desktop, Linux really isn't there yet. Give it some time, and I have every confidence it will be.
I see the phenomenal growth of Linux in the server space, in a sense, as a temporary patch to hold off the barbarians while reliable desktop pieces are developed. As long as Linux remains a viable server contender, Microsoft cannot simply co-opt standards from the server side; as long as there are reasonable standards, we can make progress on the desktop side.
Of course Linux isn't going away in the server world -- that's what I use it for now and I'm not taking it out -- but don't forget its current role as a server is creating the world in which Linux desktops will one day rule (with an iron fist?).
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...but a buddy of mine worked at LinuxCare for a scant couple months, and left saying they "don't have their sh*t together." Anybody have other inside scoop that might confirm/deny this?
...and, perhaps more to the point:
Of all the variables in this equation, the supreme court is by far the slowest-changing. In the time it takes to substantially alter the makeup of the US Supreme court, we could suffer under the yoke of Microsoft's "enhanced" "standards" through several generations of new technology.
In general, I say don't write off the Supremes on ideological ground. Their ideological predispositions may be conservative, but on average I've seen them make good legal decisions -- and on factual grounds this case is an easy call.
"The so-called Linux system", as he puts it, is not "so-called", but it actually exists.
Good point! And it got me thinking:
Back in the dark ages, lo these dozen years ago, RMS and his dedicated folk were working on creating a free OS. They did some great work, but for reasons that aren't important, they didn't ship a working OS. The early days of the *BSD movement, right after the opening of the BSD license, felt (at least to me at the time) like the same story: "Hey guys, look at my 80% of a car! Well, no, it doesn't exactly roll yet..."
Linus's key contribution, in the end, was'nt the kernel, but the _methodology_, the way of leveraging the emerging breadth of the Internet to get everyone working on the same goal. Despite the volume of GNU's contribution to Linux, it's not the _code_ that defines the OS; it's the culture of teamwork that got it to actualy GO!
Despite all the best intentions and a brain the size of a 1966 Cadillac, RMS is (IMHO) uniquely UNqualified to inspire the kind of work it took to get Linux integrated. Everyone involved in GNU should get kudos for their great code, but the defining, name-worthy characteristic of Linux -- what got it to "actually exist" -- is Linus and his people-skills.
St.L.
A buddy of mine just got a 505TX; says RedHat 5.2 loaded up on it flawlessly. I'm gettin' one any day now myself. I hope somebody smarter than me is working on USB support....
St.L.
I've had my original Leatherman Tool for seven years. It even got run over by a truck once (the ludicrously steel-reinforced ones used by a good off-site media storage service), and it's still in great shape. Most of the newer offshoots have more moving parts, which doesn't make me feel like they'd take such a beating -- though I'll admit I occasionally long for locking blades....
One day last month I left it at home and I almost melted down of insecurity by the time I finished my work-day. I feel like Less of a Man (TM) without it.
St.L.
Hey, I'm not ready to put Linux on my mom's Mac either, but the point of the article stands.
The reason this objective piece can be so persuasive is that it focuses on the server world. In the server world, Linux is legitimately kicking NT's butt, so if you want to claim victory do it in the server world. On the desktop, Linux really isn't there yet. Give it some time, and I have every confidence it will be.
I see the phenomenal growth of Linux in the server space, in a sense, as a temporary patch to hold off the barbarians while reliable desktop pieces are developed. As long as Linux remains a viable server contender, Microsoft cannot simply co-opt standards from the server side; as long as there are reasonable standards, we can make progress on the desktop side.
Of course Linux isn't going away in the server world -- that's what I use it for now and I'm not taking it out -- but don't forget its current role as a server is creating the world in which Linux desktops will one day rule (with an iron fist?).
E.