On Saturday 06 October 2012 20:29:16 Jack Coats did opine: > I am a Linux and open source advocate for just about every use, but I > do see good things from there being commercial software available for > Linux too. > > The best thing is it will help Linux get out of the 'for geeks only' > view that many people have. > > Will LinuxCNC and Mach go head to head? Yes, for some. But I don't > see Mach taking over the machine control market on Linux, but it will > be a good tool to add to the quiver of things that run on Linux, > proving that Linux isn't 'just for geeks'. > > I spoke to a geek from Oracle that was running Oracle on Linux long > before it was 'made available' on Linux. Not releasing it for Linux > was totally a marketing decision. The developer I spoke with said he > had to change a couple of includes when he re-compiled a little, but > it was considered a 'no change' port from his perspective. (Oracle was > mainly running on SUN at the time). And it was a big deal for > 'commercial users' to get Oracle supported on Linux, giving Linux a > lot of legitimacy. I see the Mach change to just be another positive > step. > That depends on how its done folks. I for one do NOT want to see a repeat of what happened to me, and likely almost anyone who bought a copy of Corel's WordPerfect 8 for linux, on sale at the time (this was about Red Hat 5.1 days 12 to 14 years ago). I got screwed (without any KY) for $90 at the time because it would only install on Corel's version of linux that was at least a year behind Red Hat, and which Corel apparently wanted $395 a seat for way back when.
Of course it didn't say a word about that on the box, and once I broken the cellophane it was not returnable. After that Hell will be down to about 2.8 Kelvin before Corel would have gotten another penny from me. That whole boxed kit, with a docs book 3+" thick is still sitting high on a shelf above me, to serve as a reminder, don't ever think its a good deal just because its marked down $20. Somehow, I have a similar bad feeling about this. Time will tell that tale of course, but its not going to be out of my pocket to find out. M$ & Oracle taught each other about market lockin. I don't own a pole long enough to touch either product. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
