Linked by Andy Tars on Fri 25th Apr 2003 17:06 UTC
João Paredes is an almost-21-year-old student of Electrotecnical and Computers Engeneering at Oporto's State University for Engeneering (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto), in Portugal. He is well known and respected in his community, known to be a visonary and a good leader. Also known to be an excelent programmer, as he's been programming computers for 16 years now (yes, since he was 5).
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I am a brazilian guy and we speak a variation of the same language (portuguese). I think that the fundamental difference between Linux (and Unices) and NT is the philosophy, specially between Linux and NT. It is freedom, open standards and modularity versus proprietary standards, abusive EULAs and licenses and bloatware.
I spend my time only learning linux because I have much more control over it and can make my programs and projects without spend money. The only price of it is the time I spend to learn, but it is a pleasure for me.
X is not the reason to weak success of linux on desktops. X is old but it is powerfull and standardized. All the professional graphics workstations used in Hollywood were Unix machines using X, and Maya is much more "graphical" than M$ Word :-) Hardware is becoming much powerfull and there are no technical reason to blaming X. I can run OpenGL games on my linux box perfectly (ssing a GeForce 2MX400 vido adapter !).
I don't care about MacOS X, Windows, BeOS, OS/2 or other operating systems I cannot control and see how they work (the source code). Would you pay for a car with sealed (hermetically closed) motor box (I don't know the correct english word for it...) ?