Well, although I have to agree with you on most of your points, consider several facts.
1. Because of employees 'sneaking' their favorite OS onto their computers, we have a 'standard' today - Windows. It was not approved by managers in it's inception either.
2. The open-source movement is critical to the long-term financial viability of using computer systems. Allowing an industry which has proven its desire time and again to head us into highly-profitable to them, financially ruinous to us, closed-system dead ends is ludicrous. Perhaps you have not taken a serious look at the history of the companies involved - or the purpose of the computers in that market.
I liken the people who install the new OSes onto computers in the corporate environment to agents of chaos - which allow for evolution - and hence, the potential for improvement (read that as lower costs through new ideas).
After watching the microcomputer industry rise from the home-built monsters to the current hand-held pieces of perfection, I would be remiss in not congratulating Bob Young and RedHat for promoting an excellent product - with an even more excellent business model.
Microsoft, my assumption is, started out to make a fortune for those who founded it. Somehow, I think that has happened:).
However, somewhere along the way, I think the focus changed from making a fortune to creating an empire.
Empires are passe.
Frankly, the open source movement and the results from the movement are one of the only things keeping me working in the indutry anymore.
Ultimately, there is no business value in providing a client/customer with a solution that is dead-ended. Yes, it may make for good money in the short-term - but does the solution serve the customer?
I feel that the open source model and Linux (all derivatives) *are* serving the customer - me.
So far, my experience with Telocity has been positive...although the DSL is not officially installed (due to my being on the road), the modem came before expected, and the service was installed before quoted.
Telocity is month-to-month and does not require a time-based contract. More importantly to me, they don't have an issue with you running servers at home...as any decent pipeline-provider should.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, although I have to agree with you on most of your points, consider several facts.
1. Because of employees 'sneaking' their favorite OS onto their computers, we have a 'standard' today - Windows. It was not approved by managers in it's inception either.
2. The open-source movement is critical to the long-term financial viability of using computer systems. Allowing an industry which has proven its desire time and again to head us into highly-profitable to them, financially ruinous to us, closed-system dead ends is ludicrous. Perhaps you have not taken a serious look at the history of the companies involved - or the purpose of the computers in that market.
I liken the people who install the new OSes onto computers in the corporate environment to agents of chaos - which allow for evolution - and hence, the potential for improvement (read that as lower costs through new ideas).
Perhaps you've grown up too much.
After watching the microcomputer industry rise from the home-built monsters to the current hand-held pieces of perfection, I would be remiss in not congratulating Bob Young and RedHat for promoting an excellent product - with an even more excellent business model. Microsoft, my assumption is, started out to make a fortune for those who founded it. Somehow, I think that has happened :).
However, somewhere along the way, I think the focus changed from making a fortune to creating an empire.
Empires are passe.
Frankly, the open source movement and the results from the movement are one of the only things keeping me working in the indutry anymore.
Ultimately, there is no business value in providing a client/customer with a solution that is dead-ended. Yes, it may make for good money in the short-term - but does the solution serve the customer?
I feel that the open source model and Linux (all derivatives) *are* serving the customer - me.
So far, my experience with Telocity has been positive...although the DSL is not officially installed (due to my being on the road), the modem came before expected, and the service was installed before quoted. Telocity is month-to-month and does not require a time-based contract. More importantly to me, they don't have an issue with you running servers at home...as any decent pipeline-provider should.