Some Linux solution providers view the constantly evolving process of the posting of Linux libraries, patches, and updates to the Internet as inefficient and cumbersome, Davison said.
Translation: "I hate my freedom! Please, someone take it away from me!"
Kind of like democracy. It's simply not as clear and effecient as dictatorship. I work with proprietary packages every day and have to wait months for a patch or update. I would love it if I could just search and apply my own patches.
"VARs are reluctant because they don't see a clear channel. They don't see a Microsoft or strong corporate company saying, 'We're going to be here forever,'" he said.
This was the tone I got from the article. He's pleading for a return to the old model of a single, proprietary operating system company and everything comes from the Cathedral. They don't like the Marketplace model of open source. They aren't comfortable with it. It's kind of like wishing some benevelant dictator will come to power and order the world.
The thing he forgets is a company, even a non-profit one, becomes a single target for Microsoft to kill. With the current model, Microsoft would have to kill every single Linux user in the world to kill Linux.
He also doesn't get the idea that nothing stops people from forking the Linux kernal into a different direction. As others have posted, the fact that hasn't happened is a market vote of confidence in Linus. IBM had an opportunity to fork the Kernal, but chose not to because they respected Linus's decision.
The other thing he doesn't get is that the "market" of distributed Open Source is permanent. The "cathedral" of a Linux Non-Profit Corporation risks losing permanence because development will become focused into the programmers at the Corp and if the Corp folds, who will support Linux then?
In my nearly 20 years (has it been that long already??) of dealing with computers, I've learned that the "marketplace" model of software development lasts longer and usually is better than the "cathedral" of a single, proprietary company or organization.
Considering every other solution has *failed*, it's time to give this a try, and in countries like India, it's allowing them to create an industry that parts bloated, lazy Western economies of their money and gives it to a country to do with as it wishes.
Giving away food has not made hunger go away.
Giving money away has not made hunger go away.
Giving medicine away has not made the world healthier (contrary to popular belief).
A winner of a Nobel Prize for Economics a few years ago proposed the idea that most of the problems "Third World" populations face are caused by their own local government rather than the lack of donations from richer nations.
Example: Ethiopia. I think most people still believe that a drought caused the famine in Ethiopia. The real reason was a bellicose Marxist government fighting rebels in their northern territories (Ethiopia's sea access). When the Soviets and Americans stopped paying for weapons, the Ethiopian government came around and confiscated everyone's food to sell to the Soviets for more guns and weapons (including cluster bombs). Ethiopians are pretty effective farmers and always had reserve supplies of grain for the cyclical droughts, but that grain was taken away by the gov't. The fighting and drafting of the young men of the population then further disrupted farming. The planned for drought hit and boom -- famine.
What made it even worse was all that money the West raised ("We are the world!") went only to the Regan administration approved government of Ethiopia (they were still Marxist, but aligned to America at the time. The rebels were aligned with Cuba. Nuff said?). So the southern regions got fed, but the northern regions were completely cut off from aid. Only the Scandanavians bothered to send any food there, and the Canadian government finally sent food there after they got shamed into doing it.
There's nothing wrong with the Third World that can't be cured by a removal of corrupt governments more interested in making megacorps happy.
Back to the T1: the ability of the population to organize through a T1 connection will probably be the most effective means of curing their ills.
The only thing that comes to mind is a Linux based gaming box. Possibly they're trying to create an XBox killer? Or maybe a new generation of stand-up arcade boxes. Or something else entirely using virtual reality and a Linux super-cluster. Either way, they got me intrigued.
Or maybe their just a front company for the Knights Templar/Priory of Zion.:-)
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Did you notice the tone of the article?
Translation: "I hate my freedom! Please, someone take it away from me!"
Kind of like democracy. It's simply not as clear and effecient as dictatorship. I work with proprietary packages every day and have to wait months for a patch or update. I would love it if I could just search and apply my own patches.
This was the tone I got from the article. He's pleading for a return to the old model of a single, proprietary operating system company and everything comes from the Cathedral. They don't like the Marketplace model of open source. They aren't comfortable with it. It's kind of like wishing some benevelant dictator will come to power and order the world.
The thing he forgets is a company, even a non-profit one, becomes a single target for Microsoft to kill. With the current model, Microsoft would have to kill every single Linux user in the world to kill Linux.
He also doesn't get the idea that nothing stops people from forking the Linux kernal into a different direction. As others have posted, the fact that hasn't happened is a market vote of confidence in Linus. IBM had an opportunity to fork the Kernal, but chose not to because they respected Linus's decision.
The other thing he doesn't get is that the "market" of distributed Open Source is permanent. The "cathedral" of a Linux Non-Profit Corporation risks losing permanence because development will become focused into the programmers at the Corp and if the Corp folds, who will support Linux then?
In my nearly 20 years (has it been that long already??) of dealing with computers, I've learned that the "marketplace" model of software development lasts longer and usually is better than the "cathedral" of a single, proprietary company or organization.
Considering every other solution has *failed*, it's time to give this a try, and in countries like India, it's allowing them to create an industry that parts bloated, lazy Western economies of their money and gives it to a country to do with as it wishes. Giving away food has not made hunger go away. Giving money away has not made hunger go away. Giving medicine away has not made the world healthier (contrary to popular belief). A winner of a Nobel Prize for Economics a few years ago proposed the idea that most of the problems "Third World" populations face are caused by their own local government rather than the lack of donations from richer nations. Example: Ethiopia. I think most people still believe that a drought caused the famine in Ethiopia. The real reason was a bellicose Marxist government fighting rebels in their northern territories (Ethiopia's sea access). When the Soviets and Americans stopped paying for weapons, the Ethiopian government came around and confiscated everyone's food to sell to the Soviets for more guns and weapons (including cluster bombs). Ethiopians are pretty effective farmers and always had reserve supplies of grain for the cyclical droughts, but that grain was taken away by the gov't. The fighting and drafting of the young men of the population then further disrupted farming. The planned for drought hit and boom -- famine. What made it even worse was all that money the West raised ("We are the world!") went only to the Regan administration approved government of Ethiopia (they were still Marxist, but aligned to America at the time. The rebels were aligned with Cuba. Nuff said?). So the southern regions got fed, but the northern regions were completely cut off from aid. Only the Scandanavians bothered to send any food there, and the Canadian government finally sent food there after they got shamed into doing it. There's nothing wrong with the Third World that can't be cured by a removal of corrupt governments more interested in making megacorps happy. Back to the T1: the ability of the population to organize through a T1 connection will probably be the most effective means of curing their ills.
The only thing that comes to mind is a Linux based gaming box. Possibly they're trying to create an XBox killer? Or maybe a new generation of stand-up arcade boxes. Or something else entirely using virtual reality and a Linux super-cluster. Either way, they got me intrigued.
Or maybe their just a front company for the Knights Templar/Priory of Zion. :-)