If you're talking about a single workstation, your points are good enough to make one pause and think.
Once you start talking about a corporate environment where you are managing hundreds of workstations and dozens of servers, the management and security enhancements in win2k make life a lot easier.
It seems to me that I read an interview with Lucas a while back in which he stated that he wouldn't do any DVD until all 6 movies were released. At that point he wanted to put out the ultimate Star Wars DVD collection...
They are not completely wrong. While much of XFree is fast and stable, there are chipsets on which it is less than stable (particularaly newer ones), and while XFree is fast, Accel-X is almost always faster. Granted it's not something you can usually notice since modern cards are so fast even with minimal acceleration. In my case, XFree86 occasionally locks up with my Virge/MX and Accel-X has been very stable.
With the UNIX market as fragmented as it is currently, some defragmentation probably wouldn't hurt. Sun, Linux, & BSD will certainly go their own way, and I suspect HP will as well, so it won't be much threat to having some healthy diversity...
I have a theory that explains why RMS feels this way. The original goal of the GNU project was to create a useful kernel. RMS has been working on this for well over a decade, and then this young guy from Finland pops out a kernel. RMS's original goal of creating a GNU kernel becomes redundant. GNU tools were added and a usable system was there.
RMS had his life's work pulled out from under him and I imagine that he resents that. I can understand that. He basically accuses Linux of riding on his coattails, though he didn't seem to care until it became popular. Now he wants to ride on the coattails of Linux. Keep in mind that in the early days of GNU, RMS said that the utilities were only a sideline that was needed for creating the GNU OS.
GNU does not make Linux. I beleive that if the GNU tools hadn't been available that tools would have been written. The GNU project has created many, many useful tools and RMS/GNU deserve credit for that. However, I do not beleive GNU deserves credit for Linux. There's more to Linux than GNU tools.
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If you're talking about a single workstation, your points are good enough to make one pause and think.
Once you start talking about a corporate environment where you are managing hundreds of workstations and dozens of servers, the management and security enhancements in win2k make life a lot easier.
Just checked my dev server and it says "Windows 5.2.3790".
It seems to me that I read an interview with Lucas a while back in which he stated that he wouldn't do any DVD until all 6 movies were released. At that point he wanted to put out the ultimate Star Wars DVD collection...
They are not completely wrong. While much of XFree is fast and stable, there are chipsets on which it is less than stable (particularaly newer ones), and while XFree is fast, Accel-X is almost always faster. Granted it's not something you can usually notice since modern cards are so fast even with minimal acceleration. In my case, XFree86 occasionally locks up with my Virge/MX and Accel-X has been very stable.
With the UNIX market as fragmented as it is currently, some defragmentation probably wouldn't hurt. Sun, Linux, & BSD will certainly go their own way, and I suspect HP will as well, so it won't be much threat to having some healthy diversity...
If it's open source, then surely you can!
I have a theory that explains why RMS feels this way. The original goal of the GNU project was to create a useful kernel. RMS has been working on this for well over a decade, and then this young guy from Finland pops out a kernel. RMS's original goal of creating a GNU kernel becomes redundant. GNU tools were added and a usable system was there.
RMS had his life's work pulled out from under him and I imagine that he resents that. I can understand that. He basically accuses Linux of riding on his coattails, though he didn't seem to care until it became popular. Now he wants to ride on the coattails of Linux. Keep in mind that in the early days of GNU, RMS said that the utilities were only a sideline that was needed for creating the GNU OS.
GNU does not make Linux. I beleive that if the GNU tools hadn't been available that tools would have been written. The GNU project has created many, many useful tools and RMS/GNU deserve credit for that. However, I do not beleive GNU deserves credit for Linux. There's more to Linux than GNU tools.