Over time open source has the *possibility* of having fewer bugs.
There are plenty of older open source projects that have TONS of bugs, moreso than equally old MS suites.
It won't happen because the industry doesn't work like the above scenario (meaning MS gives them THEIR product for free and then MAYBE they get prize money).
You have to pay for every bit of data at MS.
The NSA has used this very concept for years to do forensics. Roll back the histogram enough to find the first instance of a topic and chances are, you have found a suspect.
For instance, on 9-12 roll back the histogram of gathered intel regarding planes and NYC and you have a few good suspects.
It's not easy finding hardware that doesn't work with windows. So your point isn't very valid.
And yes, windows doesn't support every chunk of hardware, but I'd wager a guess that it covers roughly 90% of the end-user's needs. Which WAY more than any linux distro.
Linux got into the market share on the server side because the market was divided and all the vendors were expensive. AND because the end-user of servers was technically capable and actually *read* the READ ME's.
This is not true with the desktop market. End users will not tolerate learning another OS. The day an ignorant end-user can install the OS, and manage to upgrade some basic hardware without ever having to go to some back-water geek URL to download a buggy driver written by a 12 year old is the day linux will get a 20% market share of the desktop arena.
Keep crying over your QUERTY keyboards, because linux has a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go.
Stop pointing fingers or writing lame-ass petitions and write yur own damn version.
A purist would write his own, a slack open source wannabe who has never contributed whines and starts petitions.
As much as this pains me, here is the bleek future of All-Things-Open-Source......
Regardless of it's security and speed, Exchange is on top and will remain there.
Especially once.NET comes out and applications go to a subscription model. The subscription model will pretty much send the open source movement back about ten years. In a subscription based model, IT managers pay a yearly fee and never ever have to worry about upgrades, patches or licensing issues.
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Over time open source has the *possibility* of having fewer bugs. There are plenty of older open source projects that have TONS of bugs, moreso than equally old MS suites.
It won't happen because the industry doesn't work like the above scenario (meaning MS gives them THEIR product for free and then MAYBE they get prize money). You have to pay for every bit of data at MS.
The NSA has been using this concept using Bayesian Inference for years. Also, Autonomy has been doing this for years as well.
I assume he's using a spin-off of Bayesian Inference or some concoction based on Shannon's Law of Info Theory.
The NSA has used this very concept for years to do forensics. Roll back the histogram enough to find the first instance of a topic and chances are, you have found a suspect. For instance, on 9-12 roll back the histogram of gathered intel regarding planes and NYC and you have a few good suspects.
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It's not easy finding hardware that doesn't work with windows. So your point isn't very valid. And yes, windows doesn't support every chunk of hardware, but I'd wager a guess that it covers roughly 90% of the end-user's needs. Which WAY more than any linux distro.
The truth gets people like you so uppity. Criminal monopolist? Thats more than a little specious.
AMEN!!! Testify! This is EXACTLY why linux will fail, and I don't like M$ either. It's just the truth.
Linux got into the market share on the server side because the market was divided and all the vendors were expensive. AND because the end-user of servers was technically capable and actually *read* the READ ME's. This is not true with the desktop market. End users will not tolerate learning another OS. The day an ignorant end-user can install the OS, and manage to upgrade some basic hardware without ever having to go to some back-water geek URL to download a buggy driver written by a 12 year old is the day linux will get a 20% market share of the desktop arena. Keep crying over your QUERTY keyboards, because linux has a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go.
Stop pointing fingers or writing lame-ass petitions and write yur own damn version. A purist would write his own, a slack open source wannabe who has never contributed whines and starts petitions.
As much as this pains me, here is the bleek future of All-Things-Open-Source...... Regardless of it's security and speed, Exchange is on top and will remain there. Especially once .NET comes out and applications go to a subscription model. The subscription model will pretty much send the open source movement back about ten years. In a subscription based model, IT managers pay a yearly fee and never ever have to worry about upgrades, patches or licensing issues.