Windows does have a advantage over Linux. It's called the PC Gaming Industry. You may not be a gamer yourself but for those that are you know what I'm talking about. Why don't game developers release a Linux port of hit titles, like Everquest, Half Life: Counter Strike, Warcraft 3, PlanetSide, BattleField 1942.. and the list goes on and on and on. The gaming community is huge and will keep on getting bigger. E3 is proof of that. Go to your local Internet Gaming Cafe and are they running Linux? Don't get me wrong I use Linux on a daily basis and I love it as a development platform because of the easily accessible development tools. I gotta admit, when I take breaks and want to play some aztec or dust2.. you have no choice but to reboot into windows. Video card driver development is still far better for Windows than it is in Linux. I've tried Nvidia's driver for linux and it must be a memory leak, but I have 512mb of ram and I'll hit swap after a couple of minutes(others have experienced this on the message boards of freshmeat). Sure Windows has allot of limitations but so does Linux. If Linux can win the hearts of serious gamers, then that's when M$ should really be worried.
Not everyone runs the newer kernels. I have machines that still have 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels, just because I have never need the addition functions. What these guys are doing is just throwing a tantrum. There is no honor in what they are doing. They are ruining the reputation on something they are apart of, well supposedly apart of:/.
10 - 15 lines in multiple places?!? I hope they're not going to make a big deal out of naming conventions or lines that can be coincedental. Now if they were talking about specific algorithms or specific ideas to solve some problem and the code and ideas were exactly the same, well then that's different. But they never mentioned any kind of ideas or algorithms, just lines of code:/
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Windows does have a advantage over Linux. It's called the PC Gaming Industry. You may not be a gamer yourself but for those that are you know what I'm talking about. Why don't game developers release a Linux port of hit titles, like Everquest, Half Life: Counter Strike, Warcraft 3, PlanetSide, BattleField 1942 .. and the list goes on and on and on. The gaming community is huge and will keep on getting bigger. E3 is proof of that. Go to your local Internet Gaming Cafe and are they running Linux? Don't get me wrong I use Linux on a daily basis and I love it as a development platform because of the easily accessible development tools. I gotta admit, when I take breaks and want to play some aztec or dust2.. you have no choice but to reboot into windows. Video card driver development is still far better for Windows than it is in Linux. I've tried Nvidia's driver for linux and it must be a memory leak, but I have 512mb of ram and I'll hit swap after a couple of minutes(others have experienced this on the message boards of freshmeat). Sure Windows has allot of limitations but so does Linux. If Linux can win the hearts of serious gamers, then that's when M$ should really be worried.
Not everyone runs the newer kernels. I have machines that still have 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels, just because I have never need the addition functions. What these guys are doing is just throwing a tantrum. There is no honor in what they are doing. They are ruining the reputation on something they are apart of, well supposedly apart of :/.
10 - 15 lines in multiple places?!? I hope they're not going to make a big deal out of naming conventions or lines that can be coincedental. Now if they were talking about specific algorithms or specific ideas to solve some problem and the code and ideas were exactly the same, well then that's different. But they never mentioned any kind of ideas or algorithms, just lines of code :/