Re: The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

sdavmor wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
Amit Kumar wrote:

Everyone looks at things differently. Looks like we will agree
to disagree.

Nobody has to comment on coming together of Linuxes. Does it
really not matter? Would love to hear on this.
Really, you should ask questions like this on the sounder list, not
here... but I can't resist.

No, it _doesn't_ matter. So many Linuxes (and Unixes, too) exist
because we _want_ diversity. Ubuntu exists in large part because,
at the time of its introduction, Debian was in its third (iirc)
year of "imminent release" of "sarge". Debian users were getting
fed up with the slow release cycle. Otoh, the every-six-month cycle
of Ubuntu is too much for some users.

Unix/Linux development is evolutionary not revolutionary. Just
like Darwin's theory, Linux develops by slow mutation - some
mutations are advantageous, and we keep them; some take us down an
evolutionary dead end (e.g. Caldera or Corel).

Corel Linux was one of the first I tried.
I thought it was cool having CorelDraw and WordPerfect.
I wonder why that didn't take off better...

/tony
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