Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their
platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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And thus starts another flame war, I'm not partial one way or the other. I'm a computer technican and I work on alot of different operating systems, I keep an open mind when it comes to technology.
Microsoft is a buisness, they don't have to be compatible with the rest of the industry anymore than Linux or MacOS. I don't see many Ford owners complaining that GM parts don't work in their cars and vice versa. Microsoft makes products that works well with other microsoft products as does MacOS and Unix, they don't have to be compatible. The only things that have to be standard is communication protocols like TCP/IP.
Linux is a kernel NOT an OS. In order for Linux distrobutions to get out the rut it is in, a few things have to happen. Distro's MUST get specialized. And I mean like Redhat and Suse both have Server and Workstaion Distro's, not just one distro for both. Mandrake has a home user distro, etc. (picked names at random insert your favorite wherever) They have to stop trying to be all things to all people.
I shouldn't need (operitive word need) a command line to preform all the normal tasks that should be accomplised through a GUI. And my server should be (relativly) simple to setup and manage. Speaking of GUI's pick one already, or have one specificly for each Distro. I'm tired of hearing KDE vs Gnome vs Enlightenment etc.
If you develop applications specificly for linux and make them outpreform equivilant applications made by MS and not try to be compatible you just might win more market share.
Is MS perfect? No. Should all OS's be the same and work on the same standards? No. Compitetion is about haveing the best product. If everybody was the same no one would be the best. Everyone would be on the same playing field and hold no secrets. Which means no competition in the market place because everyone has the same features and it doesn't matter who's product I buy because they're all the same.
Open source or not, in order to succed in buisness you must have something that sets your product appart from others. That's what makes people want to buy yours and not the other guy's.