Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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2005-11-13
That some specific proprietary product or service only works with the platform that it was designed to lock users into isn't really a technical failing of other platforms. That your Zune (a brand owned by Microsoft) may not work with linux would be about as remarkable as the fact that you can't play PS3 games in your Xbox360. That this kind of incompatibility is systematically maintained when standard protocols would do just fine is part of what I mean when I say that the barriers to linux adoption are political not technical.
Yeah, I see what you mean when you say political. But I would say the issue has to do more with compatibility than politics. Of course, those two probably go hand-in-hand when you examine the situation closely, but saying 'political' is a bit misleading, IMHO. Because part of the reason why people won't switch is because sh*t they own (or want) doesn't work with it. That's compatibility.
You can talk all you want about the evils of proprietary hardware/software, but at the end of the day, if some teeny bopper can't use the latest 'sexy' peripheral of the month, it's game over.