Linked by Adam S on Wed 25th Sep 2002 02:21 UTC
The Linux community has been buzzing about LindowsOS since its original announcement over a year ago. With Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com, at the helm, it was heralded as a Linux that could seamlessly run all of your Windows applications. As details became available, the skepticism of the community grew and with the LindowsOS general release only months away, no one is quite sure what to make of Lindows.com and their product, LindowsOS. We tested Lindows 2.0 and we today present the most in-depth review ever written for this much-talked OS, accompanied by a number of shots.
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To answer Mr. Scheinberg :
1) Lindows has not helped Debian or Wine
Mr. Robertson has sponsored a Wine meeting and offer to sponsor part of a Debian meeting. The only reason is to give more PR for his company and to make the Linux believe that he is nice guy. That is totally wrong, a nice guy his somebody who contributes some code even if it helps your competitors. If Mr. Robertson cannot understand that, he has no place in the community and must be considered only has some kind of shoplifter.
2) Mr Robertson is a smart businessman
All the astroturfers promoting Lindows sing the same mantra : You don't understand Lindows is not for the regular Linux user but for Joe User (understatement Joe user is American, stupid, will only use AOL and fall to simple marketing tricks and can never understand anaything else than Windows 98).
Well I believe that even dumb users can be educated, that people can learn how to use better their computer and spend their money more wisely. If I help, in my own little way, the KDE project, it is not because of self pride or greed, but because I want other people to use more effectively their computer. One of the role of power users is to help and educate simple users. Knoppix is a community based distribution and will never run adds for the superbowl but if you download it, burn a few cds and give them around to your friends, colleagues, you are spreading the Gospel and helping people not to fall in marketing snares. It a small step but a useful one.
A salesman that sells to a weak old grandmother an expensive encylcopedia that she doesn't need is maybe a smart salesman but that doesn't make him a moral person.
3) Choose the right robber baron
Mr. Scheinberg likes robber barons. But, if you like that part of capitalism, why not choose Bill Gates and buy Windows XP. At least, Bill Gates really loves computers and have created a fundation for vaccination in Third-World countries. If you pay the 99$ for Lindows click and steal program you will certainly help Mr. Robertson pay the mortgage of his mansion, his daughter will have brand new plastic surgery, and his son a new sports car.
Mr. Scheinberg, you and me are not part of the same community...