Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/07/03

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:19:28 -0600

    On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:20, techlists wrote:
    > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:52, David Millet wrote:
    > > > > all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the desktop,
    > > > > simply because I will stand to make alot of money when big companies
    > > > > start picking it up. a lot of us will, in fact.
    > > > >
    > > > > i'm extremely confident that it will rule the desktop market, because of
    > > > > the speed at which the desktops have improved, which i have been lucky
    > > > > to observe during the past year i've been doing the linux thing. i've
    > > > > seen major improvements, unlike how windows upgrades their operating
    > > > > systems these days. i use winXP at work and haven't seen yet too much
    > > > > of an improvement from win2000. i agree with that guy from red hat.
    > > > > give kde, gnome, etc a few more years to mature and it will be
    > > > > night-night time for the M$ monopoly.
    > > > >
    > > > Not until Broderbund releases a Calendar Creator that works with
    > > > Linux. Ditto for Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
    > > >
    > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that
    > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon.
    > >
    > > david
    >
    >
    > As much as I like Wine, and use it myself for some products, I fear that
    > the wine project may do to linux what win-os/2 did for os/2. If your
    > system will run win32 apps, what insentive do companies have to develop
    > native programs for you.

    One difference is that Big Blue bungled the marketing of OS/2 worse
    than DEC did of VMS, and that's saying something. 

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