Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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Is anybody else baffled by all these "Oh, no linux isn't going to be ready for the desktop" stories in the press recently? I've been using linux (and other free *nixes) on my desktops for going on 15 years with hardly a glitch (at least since package management has become widely used). I suppose I don't play many video games, but that doesn't seem to be the thrust of these stories. I seriously think my Windows using friends have more trouble with all their viruses, licence keys, activations, proprietary drivers, compulsory hardware upgrades, and other BS that comes with using windows.
The barriers to linux adoption on the desktop or anywhere else are political not technical.