Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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when open source guys were arguing which OS is best,
M$ was already doing Desktop domination with Office, etc
when open source guys are arguing if StarOffice is
better than M$ office, mozilla is better than IE,
M$ is in the direction of network domination.
Just consider this: On a 28.8 kps dialup connection
can you run the latest KDE or Gnorme desktop remotely ?
I think it is not possble (your milage may vary), but
it is possible to do a win2k/xp style RDP session.
the reason is that for the most part, open source
gui/desktop are tied to the decade old X, so no matter
how good is your compression tricks, how clever the
LBX proxy, the stupid X still need to shuffle an array
of fonts back and forth several rounds between the
server (like XFree86) and the client (like netscape)
before a working window could be shown.
So apart from a few exceptions (like xterm which use
only one fixed font), X is useless even on a home
grade DSL (capped by the 128k uplink bottle neck).
yeah, more people are turning to linux/open source
for solutions, but is that because open source is
better or is that because people simply want
something for nothing ?????
if M$ shit and open source shit are priced at equal level,
people's choice will be obvious - go to any
P2P network and do a search - WinXP vs linux distro
OfficeXP vs StarOffice.
other interesting points:
1 install apps by using only the mouse
2 make a device driver without recompile the kernel
3 run an OS without the need to use a C compiler