I agree with you on some points Scott.
I feel that the article was horribly off, full of fud-like statements.
Linux does have a central organization. Correct me if I am wrong, but
Linus points to the direction in which Linux will go. They work on
drivers as they come out as well, but do not always have influence in
their design as Microsoft does.
The other part of the core OS is done by the GNU organization. They
maintain all the command line "cruft" that gives you control when other
parts of your operating system are non functional. Windows even tries
to have a "Safe Mode" that uses a minimal driver set when something goes
wrong. You can consider command line a super safe mode.
And what is this crap "for Linux to step into the real world of
enterprise computing..."? Does enterprise computing NOT include
webservering, clustering, real time data management, supercomputing,
etc.? I guess enterprise computing must mean gaming, which is also
changing.
This article gave me a headache, full of propaganda and whatnot. I
liked this part a lot:
(For a
detailed look at the Windows development process, please see my
"Windows Server 2003 Road to Gold" series on the SuperSite for
Windows, at the URL below)
Does that not scream (pardon the expression), "I'm a Microsoft Commie?"
I would ask if there were a way to reply to this guy, to see if he were
real, or if they made one of those fiction writing programs that comes
up with this, but I am sure someone already took care of that.
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Mat Branyon
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http://locke.homeunix.org
