Folks LOVE LINUX better than UNIX, MS, SUN, SCO...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2003 10:40 AM
It is just plain ol' better for everyone!
The only reason why open-source and LINUX has already been accepted in the commercial and non-commercial space is this: the monopoly positions held by the other operating systems held back software and hardware development, period. Everybody knows this! Before LINUX: For any author of a software application to do anything, they first needed to have the blessings of the owner of the OS that the software was to run on (and then they had to pray that the owner of the OS did not try to develop the same application and include it for free as part of the OS). The same held true for hardware development as hardware engineers could do nothing without the blessings of the owner of the OS! Business and personal use of software was also being held up while customers waited for software improvements -that in turn were waiting for periodic improvements in an operating system -that were in turn being held back due to unrelated economic reasons that were ONLY specific to the financial reports for the company that "owned" that operating system.
Linus Torvalds, with the GNU/LINUX GPL preamble freed us all from the problems with the old OS model that you are now saying that we need to go back to!
Linux provides a "neutral" OS kernel that gives all a level playing field to do our computer related business or pleasure on! With the GNU/LINUX GPL we have freedom from the OS dictators, at last!
Yep - with LINUX... If someone wants to create a "better LINUX user application" that addresses user needs better than any other LINUX application, and the application developer wants to copyright and keep proprietary this application, then with Linux... THEY ARE *FREE* TO DO IT! LINUX says that they can keep it proprietary and make money from it without the LINUX kernel folks suddenly wanting to jump into the same business! Microsoft, SCO, and SUN can not make the same claim... they all have application ownership issues that can conflict with other developer of applications! This is why everyone likes LINUX better!
What does SUN take us for - do they think that we are a bunch of idiots? Oh - by the way Darl, oops I mean McNealy, enterprises already trust the open-source GNU/LINUX GPL model, or did you not notice this. NO one even cares about this indemnification idea that marketing came up with in the past year! SCO and Microsoft have a history with many that, well has pissed us off... and if SUN keeps it up then SUN will end up in the same boat as SCO and Microsoft!
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Folks LOVE LINUX better than UNIX, MS, SUN, SCO...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2003 10:40 AMThe only reason why open-source and LINUX has already been accepted in the commercial and non-commercial space is this: the monopoly positions held by the other operating systems held back software and hardware development, period. Everybody knows this! Before LINUX: For any author of a software application to do anything, they first needed to have the blessings of the owner of the OS that the software was to run on (and then they had to pray that the owner of the OS did not try to develop the same application and include it for free as part of the OS). The same held true for hardware development as hardware engineers could do nothing without the blessings of the owner of the OS! Business and personal use of software was also being held up while customers waited for software improvements -that in turn were waiting for periodic improvements in an operating system -that were in turn being held back due to unrelated economic reasons that were ONLY specific to the financial reports for the company that "owned" that operating system.
Linus Torvalds, with the GNU/LINUX GPL preamble freed us all from the problems with the old OS model that you are now saying that we need to go back to!
Linux provides a "neutral" OS kernel that gives all a level playing field to do our computer related business or pleasure on! With the GNU/LINUX GPL we have freedom from the OS dictators, at last!
Yep - with LINUX... If someone wants to create a "better LINUX user application" that addresses user needs better than any other LINUX application, and the application developer wants to copyright and keep proprietary this application, then with Linux... THEY ARE *FREE* TO DO IT! LINUX says that they can keep it proprietary and make money from it without the LINUX kernel folks suddenly wanting to jump into the same business! Microsoft, SCO, and SUN can not make the same claim... they all have application ownership issues that can conflict with other developer of applications! This is why everyone likes LINUX better!
What does SUN take us for - do they think that we are a bunch of idiots?
Oh - by the way Darl, oops I mean McNealy, enterprises already trust the open-source GNU/LINUX GPL model, or did you not notice this. NO one even cares about this indemnification idea that marketing came up with in the past year! SCO and Microsoft have a history with many that, well has pissed us off... and if SUN keeps it up then SUN will end up in the same boat as SCO and Microsoft!
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