Biting my tongue as a favor to list manager.
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:32 -0500, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > They are developing other products because I think that > > they see that eventually Linux will pass both of their operating systems > > and become the dominant desktop. > > I'm sorry, I've been hearing the siren song of "Linux will be the killer > desktop real soon now" for over a decade, and it's no closer to happening > today than it was then, IMHO. > > Sure, for geeks it might be fine, and for very limited-use scenarios such as > "browsing only", it might be fine. But at the end of the day, users want to > play games, download tracks from iTunes, etc., etc., and that's just nowhere > near being the case in the foreseeable future. > > The desktop exists to do "what the user wants to do", not "to mold the user's > actions into something the computer can do". And that's really not the model > any Linux desktop environment (that I've seen) has actually ever operated. > > > It's hard to charge for something when > > people can get a better product for free (I used to teach in Catholic > > School, I know.) > > If the product is better, sure, but anyone who really and truly believes > "Linux desktops" are better than the other things that are out there -- for > the common man -- is really just fooling themselves. Again, IMHO. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration > Apr 7 - Nagios > May 5 - Android -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 Please note my new address and update your records _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios May 5 - Android
