Hi!
"C & D Wyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm no Linux guru but I know business and the
> article is pretty much correct ,especially the
> part about the shareholders. We all know Linux is
> FREE and it's all based on a sort of "non profit"
> ideal and wherever you see FREE and NON PROFIT
> companies run away, especially software companies.
> Lets face it, free=no profit , no profit=no
> company, and that folks is why Linux will never
> kill Windows.
I wonder if this is an off-topic (isn't this a help
list?, perhaps it makes sense to post it in
http://www.slashdot.org instead), but anyway it's
interesting. I'm going to say my own opinion:
Windows won't dead like Amiga or Mac are not dead.
Also DOS isn't dead. But they aren't in a dominant
position. I think Windows, and Microsoft, will loose
its dominant position.
Free doesn't mean no profit. The industry needs
open standards and Linux is. The Windows monopoly
only benefits Microsoft. Microsoft takes more
and more monopoly in the Windows operating system
apps market (Office suite, Internet browsers, and
now multimedia). The other companies are realizing it,
and are making software for Linux.
Linux is better, cheaper, more stable and more
secure. But it need to be also *easier* than
Windows, because people don't like to RTFM. And it
will come, soon.
Anyway, I don't mind. If I will be able to continue
using Linux with a lot of wonderful software, far
from Micro$oft, then I'll be happy :-)
Regards. Please forget my bad English.
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