Linked by Tarmo Hyvärinen on Thu 5th Feb 2004 20:41 UTC
Lindows.com offered LindowsOS Developer Edition free for one day, GoogleDay (Whatever that is, I don't know, google's birthday perhaps?) so I decided to test it. My favorite distribution this far has been (and still is) Slackware Linux, which has always, well, just worked. I've been using Linux for some years now, I use Solaris at work (I work as software designer). Trying out Lindows after Slackware was totally different world, and here's some of my toughts after trying out Lindows.
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"I think that's due as much (if not more) to the current conditions in the OS software market than the relative merits of closed/open development models."
To clarify: Its really the relative merits of the open development model in the current OS software market. The current software market basically guarantees that an upstart OS will not make any money. Open projects do not need to worry about making money, which means that they can survive long enough to become competitive. A commercial company, unless they targetted a very specific niche, would burn through its cash long before they had enough sales to support themselves.