> My guess is MS will never do MS/Linux because their knee-jerk > reaction, as with all corporations, is to retain control over anything > and everything they possibly can. Not because it is rational, but > because they can and "you never know" when you might need it, > opportunity cost be-damned.
Very relevant to the recent story about the quote from Bill Gates circa 1998...(I must have seen it either here or on Reddit: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/11/04/microsoft-history) Maybe, after France ruled against including IE in 7, the browser will be the first truly open software genre. I hope so. Operating systems, however, will remain in chains for a decade, at least, because they're bigger...and more expensive. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Does the average user understand "NT kernel" on the desktop? >>> >>> Never mind the NT kernel, the average user doesnt understand much of >>> MS-Windows overall. >> >> The average user doesn't, but do they need too? How many of us >> understand car engines, refrigerators, etc. In some aspect of our >> lives there are things we use and the only requirement for us is that >> they work. Business is the same way... It just needs to work. Granted >> I believe it would work better without MS business does work with it. >> Until the companies that make apps for Windows move away from it or at >> least to a web/cloud based were stuck with MS. >> > > Yes, by definition, in a MS/Linux world, we are still stuck with MS. > > Come to think of it, MS would lose the comparative advantage that > Windows is always a bit ahead of us on drivers. GNU/Linux folks would > end up with parity. Not sure what that is worth to them. I would think > all the free kernel dev labor (including all that which has already > been sunk into it) would be worth that, but who knows. > > My guess is MS will never do MS/Linux because their knee-jerk > reaction, as with all corporations, is to retain control over anything > and everything they possibly can. Not because it is rational, but > because they can and "you never know" when you might need it, > opportunity cost be-damned. > > -- John. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
