Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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We don't need to replace the EVIL OS, just knock it off the top of the hill.
Its one thing to have a dominant OS that everyone uses that is open so everyone both understands how it works and has the right to build on top of it or change it. That situation would not be so bad. And that is where we would be with UNIX. But that never happened. Instead we have a monopoly that sells us a closed source OS and EVERYONE maintains that it is the industry standard. This is a bad thing because it is closed, it is controlled by a monopoly and it is anti-competitive.
Competition is a good thing, but not on my desktop. I don't want advertisements from AOL competing with advertisements from MSN for my screen realestate. I want my desktop to function the way I want it to. I want it to function the way it is advertised. I want to get what I pay for and never be asked to pay any more, ever again.
Show me a single commercial entity that can provide that, monopoly or not, and maybe you can convince me that there is such a thing as a proprietary industry standard. Until then you better make some money and you better make it fast cuz GNU is coming for ya baby!