Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 14th Dec 2005 23:30 UTC, submitted by LinuxFanBoy
Today, we cannot know if people would still buy Microsoft products because the government protects the monopoly. What percentage of the market would Microsoft have in a fair market? The only way we can answer that last question is to stop manufacturers from preloading Windows. Until then, we do not have a free market. Microsoft has no way to prove itself otherwise, says LXer.
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It isn't just marketing savvy that is needed...
by rcsteiner on Thu 15th Dec 2005 21:47
in reply to "RE: Revolution OS"
Member since:2005-07-12
It's easy to wow a cow orker with the way Linux works, but getting it (formally) installed on the corporate LAN is quite a different issue. There's a lot of procedural inertia present in large corporations.
I've found it relatively easy to backdoor various other tryes of free software and prove their usefulness, and the company is finally starting to take Linux seriously as a server development platform. Not on the desktop, though, not yet. But that day is coming. :-)
Sometimes ya gotta have patience, too...
Member since:
2005-10-19
"C'mon guys, we have a really great product here, time to get really excited about it."
Indeed a real product exists.....
Now get 99% of the Linux community to shut up and stop making the product look like a train wreck via their own words. Some who "believe" they are helping the effort, are cutting it's balls off.
I'll go to my grave claiming the reason people think Linux sucks is the attitude of the very people who are attempting to advance it.
Linux has a LOT going for it...
Unfortunately, the people who are behind it don't have public relations skills in proportion to their technical skills.