You'd still be leasing a pulse dial phone too if AT&T wasn't smacked around by the government also. It's so paradoxial for me as a libertarian to have to admit that sometimes you need a powerful government to step in and help. Only because people are stupid enough to let entities like Microsoft, IBM and AT&T exist. If people educated themselves they wouldn't need a protector.
A free market is partly defined by a fully informed consumer. Most people are ignorant of the products they purchase, they do it based on it being marketed to them.
Linux excels as a server because of it's Unix heritage(it's not unix of course don't want to piss off the open group;-) ). When I think of a desktop environment I think of the kind of integration that Windows or the Mac or OS/2 has. I'd like to be working in AbiWord and insert a Gnumeric Spreadsheet right from AbiWord. Their needs to be a consistent interface and a consistent model for developers and users to hope to appease the masses. Netscape on Linux is bad and Mozilla ain't there yet and doesn't have the support for plugins that it's Windows/Mac browser counterparts do. I love unix/linux but I ain't gonna pretend that we are close to providing a replacement for Windows/Mac on the desktop.
Redhat will be linux in the commercial sense, it has the momentum and the money and the public name. Fun to pretend but there is a reason that things gravitate towards fewer and fewer choices, economy of scale. You still be free to roll your own of course.
Well why couldn't Microsoft say this then? Speaking for Microsoft?
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And you posted this when? Not very bright are you? Attacking somebody for doing exactly what you're doing. You must be a "Lunix Luzer" posting on Saturday.
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That was an Onion story.
I win, you replied and kept the thread going plus this isn't usenet kid.
You'd still be leasing a pulse dial phone too if AT&T wasn't smacked around by the government also. It's so paradoxial for me as a libertarian to have to admit that sometimes you need a powerful government to step in and help. Only because people are stupid enough to let entities like Microsoft, IBM and AT&T exist. If people educated themselves they wouldn't need a protector.
A free market is partly defined by a fully informed consumer. Most people are ignorant of the products they purchase, they do it based on it being marketed to them.
Linux excels as a server because of it's Unix heritage(it's not unix of course don't want to piss off the open group ;-) ). When I think of a desktop environment I think of the kind of integration that Windows or the Mac or OS/2 has. I'd like to be working in AbiWord and insert a Gnumeric Spreadsheet right from AbiWord. Their needs to be a consistent interface and a consistent model for developers and users to hope to appease the masses. Netscape on Linux is bad and Mozilla ain't there yet and doesn't have the support for plugins that it's Windows/Mac browser counterparts do. I love unix/linux but I ain't gonna pretend that we are close to providing a replacement for Windows/Mac on the desktop.
but heh you won't care as long as you are living comfortably
Redhat will be linux in the commercial sense, it has the momentum and the money and the public name. Fun to pretend but there is a reason that things gravitate towards fewer and fewer choices, economy of scale. You still be free to roll your own of course.
You must sue...
Well why couldn't Microsoft say this then? Speaking for Microsoft?
And you posted this when? Not very bright are you? Attacking somebody for doing exactly what you're doing. You must be a "Lunix Luzer" posting on Saturday.