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What needs to be done about Linux
flap:
quote: It is illegal to decrypt them?
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It is in the US.
quote:I say that the desktop is best left to Mac OS X.
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As far as you're concerned, maybe. Millions of people use Unix variants as desktops and have no problem with them.
[ November 19, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]
slave:
quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
I say that the desktop is best left to Mac OS X. FreeBSD and Linux should stay on servers. And maybe Windows for Solitaire and blue screens.
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You're forgetting why Linus developed the Linux kernel in the first place. He wanted to run UNIX on his home PC. The fact is, the things linux has going for it in the server world - stability, reliability, responsiveness, security - all make it a good candidate for a desktop OS.
Until OS X can run on more architectures than PPC, or until PPC becomes the dominant architecture, I doubt Apple will ever have a market share above 5%.
Linux on the other hand is being adopted everywhere - 1 million computers in China, the govt. of Brazil, Munich, and many other places I can't remember. Linux will win for the same reason Windows beat out OS/2 back in the day - not because it's better than the competition, but because it's cheap and "good enough" to be used.
slave:
quote:Originally posted by Viper:
Linux hasn't been able to overthrow Windows since it was spawned(for a long time) and I doubt it ever will. I bet the end of Microsoft will come from an unknown OS from an unexpected company some time from now. The OS that will get the job done will not use the Linux kernel or Unix kernel. It will not be open source, it will not have anything to do with GNU and it will not be under GPL. It will not be rehash from any other OS and of course it will be easy to use. Even though the OS will overthrow MS's dominance it will not knock MS out of the game. MS will just become #2.
Of course I don't know this for a fact but that is how I forsee it happening.
[ November 19, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
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Certainly a possibility, but I sincerely doubt the OS that defeats Windows won't be under the GPL. Why is that? Because open source, copylefted software is the only kind that is immune to Microsoft's monopolist tactics. Just look what happened to BeOS. Even if your OS was technically better, Microsoft is so entrenched and has so much money that you would quickly go bankrupt trying to compete with them. One business can't do this job - you need a social movement. And you need a license that will prevent them from taking your OS when it starts to become a serious competitor, improving it, and releasing it as their own as proprietary software. That's what infuriates Microsoft. They hate the GPL, and would destroy linux easily if it didn't exist. They *can't* use the source code in their non-free OS and there isn't a thing they can do about it (except pay SCO to try to invalidate the GPL)
insomnia:
I never had any of those problems.
Still, I do agree their should be a easier distro, but not at all costs. In the past, people already tried to do this. Powerless systems like BeOS and NeXTStep were the result.
quote: quote: It is illegal to decrypt them?
It is in the US.
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...educational use... ;)
hm_murdock:
uh... BeOS isn't a UNIX-derived system
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