cold water on linux

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
> > I have no love for Lindows, but don't wish to see them go under either.
> > They have added some beneficial visibility to Linux. But their
> > insistence on trying to beat the giant at his own game was nothing short
> > of suicidal. Don Quixote would be proud.
>
> I don't think Linux and her applications (openoffice, xfree86,
> KDE/GNOME, multimedia, samba, ..) are ready to take the giant.

Lindows != Linux

That said, OSS already is "taking" the giant.  BIND and apache alone are
in more widespread use than microsoft's equivalents.

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