not wanting to be a killjoy or anything, but attempting to break gmail without their permission is a denial of service attack. am i wrong?
either way, lucky that google didn't get mad about it!
1GB + bounced mail to a single account in a short amount of time must have had a performance hit on the servers holding that account and maybe affected other accounts that used the same servers.
Home users are tied to the vast library of Windows-only apps (again, often games) that simply have no equal on Linux.
This is the reason that I believe the shift to MS alternatives have to come from business users if there is going to be one. Businesses don't care if games don't work under Linux, infact it's a bonus. The priorities are key applications running on it, such as office productivity, e-mail/groupware, web browsers, etc.
Once there is a reasonable migration to Linux by businesses, I think many of the users will consider using the same system they have at work. Once that has happened, and 20% of home users are running Linux, then there is ample reason for games companies to develop for Windows and Linux systems, in the same way that you can buy games on different console systems.
The problem as far as an IE to Mozilla switch on Windows is concerned is that IE is so entwined in the operating system, that even if the user doesn't elect to browse with it half of IE is still loaded and the only way to stop it is to switch operating systems. Microsoft has even argued that the two are inseperable!
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not wanting to be a killjoy or anything, but attempting to break gmail without their permission is a denial of service attack. am i wrong? either way, lucky that google didn't get mad about it! 1GB + bounced mail to a single account in a short amount of time must have had a performance hit on the servers holding that account and maybe affected other accounts that used the same servers.
Home users are tied to the vast library of Windows-only apps (again, often games) that simply have no equal on Linux. This is the reason that I believe the shift to MS alternatives have to come from business users if there is going to be one. Businesses don't care if games don't work under Linux, infact it's a bonus. The priorities are key applications running on it, such as office productivity, e-mail/groupware, web browsers, etc. Once there is a reasonable migration to Linux by businesses, I think many of the users will consider using the same system they have at work. Once that has happened, and 20% of home users are running Linux, then there is ample reason for games companies to develop for Windows and Linux systems, in the same way that you can buy games on different console systems. The problem as far as an IE to Mozilla switch on Windows is concerned is that IE is so entwined in the operating system, that even if the user doesn't elect to browse with it half of IE is still loaded and the only way to stop it is to switch operating systems. Microsoft has even argued that the two are inseperable!