The one quote that really bugged me is the following one from Ousterhout:
> The third thing that has negatively impressed me is
> that open source is often used as a desperate last-ditch
> effort for loser software. If a product is doing poorly
> in the marketplace, sometimes companies release it as
> open source, hoping that will somehow magically revive
> it and make it widely used. This almost never works.
Does this guy not realize that Firefox was born from Netscape going south? I'm sure there are other examples out there, but how obvious does one need to be?
As someone who's visited a couple of different departments along my career path, I would say the "recurring tweaks" problem is more of a windows one. Your average *nix admin is going to fix things so they never have to bother doing so again. In the Windows world, it's usually not possible to fix things in this way.
Ubuntu server is just a couple of clicks and off you go. Doesn't cost you anything but time to try it, and I've found the install only takes 10 minutes. Give it a shot.
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The one quote that really bugged me is the following one from Ousterhout:
> The third thing that has negatively impressed me is
> that open source is often used as a desperate last-ditch
> effort for loser software. If a product is doing poorly
> in the marketplace, sometimes companies release it as
> open source, hoping that will somehow magically revive
> it and make it widely used. This almost never works.
Does this guy not realize that Firefox was born from Netscape going south? I'm sure there are other examples out there, but how obvious does one need to be?
As someone who's visited a couple of different departments along my career path, I would say the "recurring tweaks" problem is more of a windows one. Your average *nix admin is going to fix things so they never have to bother doing so again. In the Windows world, it's usually not possible to fix things in this way.
Ubuntu server is just a couple of clicks and off you go. Doesn't cost you anything but time to try it, and I've found the install only takes 10 minutes. Give it a shot.