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Well, the fact that there are mechanisms to plug in the support should be good enough. If you make a format, you can certainly make the necessary plugin to make it work with Windows. It's a bit hard (but possible) with filesystems, but for codecs and image formats, the extensiblity story is pretty easy.

Thing is, for many people out there, the reverse would be more interesting, until Linux users are still "somewhat" less in numbers. The question never was whether plugins can be made or extensibility is hard or not. They [i.e. the Windows side] simply don't do it, because it's one of the ways to keep themselves afloat.

I disagree. To some degree, every OS has its disciples (or "true believers", if you will), who treat a particular personality (Gates, Jobs, Torvalds, etc) as some kind of Messiah. That kind of slavish devotion is clearly on view, and it's disturbing, cult-like behavior, in my opinion.

From the Wiki:

"Cult typically refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers outside the mainstream, with a notably positive or negative popular perception. In common or populist usage, "cult" has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups. For this reason, most, if not all, non-fan groups that are called cults reject this label.

A group's populist cult status begins as rumors of its novel belief system, its great devotions, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful or beneficial effects on members, or its perceived opposition to the interests of mainstream cultures and governments. Cult rumors most often refer to artistic and fashion movements of passing interest, but persistent rumors may escalate popular concern about relatively small and recently founded religious movements, or non-religious groups, perceived to engage in excessive member control or exploitation."



I actually would prefer to deal with Torvalds than Gates or Jobs, because at least Torvalds speaks his mind. You know where he's coming from; whereas, I suspect that Gates and Jobs would come at you from the shadows. So, Torvalds may not be right much, but he is fundamentally honest.

Edited 2008-02-08 08:57 UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_(disambiguation)

"Cult, a cohesive group of people **devoted to beliefs** **or practices** that the surrounding culture or society considers to be outside the mainstream."

Windows , Mac OS X and GNU/linux are mainstream OS ...

So not only are you not making sense , it's clear you and the author of this insulting garbage don't know the meaning of the word cult.

You need disciple to make a cult :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciple

"A disciple is a follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other wise figure. It can refer to:"

So all that you said here was just a justification for your baseless usual religious based themed insults and show a sign of clear deformation and of lack of education and of understanding on your part.

By your failed logic , incorect definition and missinterpretation , anyone who use an OS is a cultist ...

Seem to me that what you wrote here was just pure garbage.

Agreed, but it makes me wonder why he basically showed a *shrug* response to Tivo's attempt to lock its devices.