Bill Gates loves to talk about intelectual property and so do all the rest ofthe loosers of the world. However, the sad an bitter for them truth is that intelectual property exists only as bragging right and not something that you earn money from. What Gates refuses to admit or maybe even realize is that OSS is not about abolishing intelectual property. Everyone that creates any OSS has his/her name qutomatically stamped on it. OSS is about freedom to know everything about the software that you use and the way it was created. After all if it wasn't for all the scientist that discovered/created things described in textbooks Bill Gates would have had no chance to even turn a computer on. So is OSS communism? I think not. Closed sorce is the philosophy that resemble the communistic *control of information* and I really do not see Mr. Gates' point. I guess that's what happens when you flunck out of college.
well for all those that claim that linux is not that user friendly I have just a couple of words , Linksys, embeded devices (i.e. mp3 players and other pocket media players). The article is very right that linux makes sence to a lot of companies however I disagree with the statement that linux is not going to take over the desktop market. Linux was and is built as a desktop system and just because people use it on servers means nothing. As a matter of fact certain unix distributions and bsd will probably work better for things like clusters and other large servers. Anyway, I think that linux distros like Novell's Linux Desktop will eventually become a common view in corporate offices and I compleatelly disagree that OSS will be a common part of Windows desktops. The people that have to port OSS to windows often dislike the process and software does not get ported very fast. Just because Mozilla does not follow the same rules does not mean that the rest of the OSS doesn't also. Mozilla was started as a cross platform software and has never been anything less. However, projects like gimp and xchat are based on open GUIs and that does not fit very well in the windows world. Xchat's maintainer already started charging for the windows version. The reason given was that it's a major pain to port the software (for him). Gimp on the other hand is ported by 3rd parties and some of the ports also charge for the work done. Windows is build so that the system is *shielded* from the user as much as possible. This leads to very few points of entry and a very nasty OS for tweaking. There are a couple of other things that the article misses like that on embeded devices linux has a pretty good presence and that latelly companies like Cisco (they own Linksys) have started puting on routers. Oh yeah and if you think that linux is hard or weird or whatever you should probably recal the time when you started using Windows. I bet you it was weird and hard too. Why should you expect Linux to be easier to learn than Windows?
great article and the right view about the project. I am really glad the at least one of the founders realizes the problems that Wikipedia has starting to face. In a perfect society people would never post junk on like but this is no perfect world and the truth is that some people get off on the crap that they post. Like a friend of mine says, the internet gives the ability to every moron to "write on the wall" without repercussions
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Bill Gates loves to talk about intelectual property and so do all the rest ofthe loosers of the world. However, the sad an bitter for them truth is that intelectual property exists only as bragging right and not something that you earn money from. What Gates refuses to admit or maybe even realize is that OSS is not about abolishing intelectual property. Everyone that creates any OSS has his/her name qutomatically stamped on it. OSS is about freedom to know everything about the software that you use and the way it was created. After all if it wasn't for all the scientist that discovered/created things described in textbooks Bill Gates would have had no chance to even turn a computer on. So is OSS communism? I think not. Closed sorce is the philosophy that resemble the communistic *control of information* and I really do not see Mr. Gates' point. I guess that's what happens when you flunck out of college.
well for all those that claim that linux is not that user friendly I have just a couple of words , Linksys, embeded devices (i.e. mp3 players and other pocket media players).
The article is very right that linux makes sence to a lot of companies however I disagree with the statement that linux is not going to take over the desktop market. Linux was and is built as a desktop system and just because people use it on servers means nothing. As a matter of fact certain unix distributions and bsd will probably work better for things like clusters and other large servers. Anyway, I think that linux distros like Novell's Linux Desktop will eventually become a common view in corporate offices and I compleatelly disagree that OSS will be a common part of Windows desktops. The people that have to port OSS to windows often dislike the process and software does not get ported very fast. Just because Mozilla does not follow the same rules does not mean that the rest of the OSS doesn't also. Mozilla was started as a cross platform software and has never been anything less. However, projects like gimp and xchat are based on open GUIs and that does not fit very well in the windows world. Xchat's maintainer already started charging for the windows version. The reason given was that it's a major pain to port the software (for him). Gimp on the other hand is ported by 3rd parties and some of the ports also charge for the work done. Windows is build so that the system is *shielded* from the user as much as possible. This leads to very few points of entry and a very nasty OS for tweaking.
There are a couple of other things that the article misses like that on embeded devices linux has a pretty good presence and that latelly companies like Cisco (they own Linksys) have started puting on routers.
Oh yeah and if you think that linux is hard or weird or whatever you should probably recal the time when you started using Windows. I bet you it was weird and hard too. Why should you expect Linux to be easier to learn than Windows?
great article and the right view about the project. I am really glad the at least one of the founders realizes the problems that Wikipedia has starting to face. In a perfect society people would never post junk on like but this is no perfect world and the truth is that some people get off on the crap that they post. Like a friend of mine says, the internet gives the ability to every moron to "write on the wall" without repercussions