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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Mystilleef has his points.
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If only he actively joines the discussion afterwards, which he doesn't seem to do right now
Anyway, he has his points. For the masses, oss just isn't finished enough. If you're not interested in computers, then you look at the outside, how it looks and all, you don't really care about the inner workings.
Would you buy a car that functions really well, with a good, stable engine, but it lookes like Nixon on wheels? You probably wouldn't.