-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On January 27, 2004 10:03, Jason Becker wrote: > I love the choice that Linux (and the BSDs) offer... But having worked > for a Silicon Valley software company the reality is that _corporate_ > customers and ISVs want and need (to some extent) standardization. Right
choice and standardization are not mutually exclusive. it's a question of what you want and/or need to standardize. standardizing ABIs, file system layouts, file formats, IPC, etc... makes all the sense in the world to me. but standardizing on a brand name? that makes no sense IMHO. if your word processor can open my word processor's files, and if your name server can talk to my name server ..... who cares if you are running Red Hat Linux and I'm running [insert random Open Source OS name here]? what you (and others) are suggesting is akin to saying that instead of standardizing weights and measures (LSB), we should simply only have Craftsman (Novel, Red Hat) making tools. that way we will all know that our CraftsmanXP wrenches are the same! i'm sure Craftsman would be all for it, of course. and i bet they'd be willing to say just about anything to convince you that it's not only innevitable, but it's good. screw the lessons of history, both positive (Linux) and negative (MS Windows, proprietary UNIX)! this is not to say, of course, that Company X can't standardize on a specific set of OS/application stacks internally (seeing as that's exactly what most do). but those per-company/organization/unit decisions don't need to translate out into the market at large, even if companies like Novel would like that to happen. with a lack of choice comes stagnation, lack of innovation, and a loss of control over one's own tools. history has shown that over and over again. don't drink the kool-aide. > http://www.userlinux.com/white_paper.html Bruce is a good coder, but when it comes to things outside of coding and basic politics, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - -- Aaron J. Seigo while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFrQ81rcusafx20MRAqRKAJsFFzVNGyEuS5vCZpfDhTEr2dibjACfWfMQ KiUD6ZS5jXZMEVoVItBvy+g= =2MSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
