Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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Good heavens man !!! Did you tell this to Microsoft ? Are you in fact saying that Microsoft releases its products completely baked and bug free ? Come on..... really !!!
I do not use Debian, but invite you to realise that a Debian Linux beta release of that distro's "half-baked" code is so darn good as regards bug freedom and stability that it is widely considered the equivalent of a Microsoft release after about 3-5 service patches have been applied, and even then I am not sure I am being kind to Debian.
This particular comment is downright stupid as far as I am concerned. As at least one journalist has said: Microsoft is the ultimate solipsistic company. And if you don't know what that means, it is essentially that everything Microsoft does is designed for their benefit....got that ?.... THEIR benefit...not the consumer. As the journalist said: it may look that way, but every piece of code is designed to lock you into Microsoft and ensure that they have an income. As a result, Microsoft code is released to ensure that consumers are fed more upgrades (buggy or not) based solely on economic principles (or lack of them...whichever you like) which mean Microsoft has an increased cash flow. And that's why Linux is being attacked. It actually DOES threaten Microsoft's cash cow of the desk top.
Last but not least: the only reason that people are able to use Microsoft (as you point out) is that they grow up with it. But we now have experiments which show that if children grow up with Linux, they feel the same way about Linux as the current lot on Microsoft feel about Windows. Why do you think Microsoft is fighting to make sure Linux is not bundled on computers at point of sale ? Hmmmmmmmmm ?
I leave it at that.