[OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

[ronnie gauthier]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:32:54 -0400 - Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote
the following
Re: Re: [OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

>My Bet:
>It won't work anyway.  Linux may actually be slowed a little by all this, but
>SCO, Sun, and Microsoft are all sitting on one of the last pieces of
>artillary, hoping they will only have to worry about each other once again... 
>But what they fail to recognize is while they focus on Linux, BSD is still
>developing and much of the Linux core which is NOT in question may be
>integrated into the BSD's at any time to provide the additional friendliness
>and HW support that they have been lacking.  They will not be able to breath
>easy... ever.

I dont see BSD ever doing that. They have remained pure *nix AFAIK.

>The software industry landscape has been forever changed, and it is forcing
>difficult adjustments on all software companies involved, although mostly on
>the behemoth OS vendors.  That's because Open Source OS'es are farther
>advanced than most of the other software, since they've been worked on and
>refined longer than most other OSS projects. 

The only reason Linux has developed so fast is the very reason it is in
peril now. They were given, or appropiated, complicated chunks of code taht took
others years and more $$ than the whole Linux kernal cost from start to R&D the
code plus access to the hardware needed to test and develop it. The Linux
community could not have done JFS or NUMA on its own, not and remained a viable
timely alternative. Remove that and what happens to Linux kernal?


>Given time, other areas will
>face fierce competition from OSS as well.  This will be the equalizer,
>abrupting the mentality that customers are kept by "lock-in", Marketting, and
>FUD.  Perhaps the end result will be software companies which aim to keep
>market share by actually writing good and innovative code!  Or maybe not.
>

OSS is a great concept. In practice however is does not live up to its implied
expectations. An example would be OpenOffice and its predicessor, StarOffice.
Both were supposed to be M$Office killers. We're developing, just wait, we will
have file compatability, its coming, full excel compatability,soon... just how
long does it take, and how long will the potential convertees wait. Just as we
hate FUD, OSS spreads the exact opposite, Hope-Anxiousness-Conviction(HAC)
which is just as false. Most OSS packages dont live up to the task of being the
M$ killer application or even equal, and OO has more R&D clout behind it than
probably any other OSS project. I use open source whenever I can but the fact
is that is will be a long time before OO=M$Office, OSS cad apps=AutoCad,
gimp=photoshop. It is this that really hinders the adaptation of linux to the
desktop not the "extra features" that freely come with poorly written apps. The
OSS community will never keep up, let alone catch up with the likes of an Adobe
or AutoDesk.



>On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:33:30 -0500
>Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> 
>> In reguards to SCO, we have to remember that SUN is paying a good chunk 
>> of SCO's legal fees.  The traditional *nix vendors have had some very 
>> profitable niches gutted by Windoze.  They are starting to see the same 
>> from linux and M$ has also noticed.  I think they are all working to 
>> shut down linux on the "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" theory.  The 
>> only problem is who has the dagger and who has the back between SUN and 
>> M$?  Any bets?
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