Re: Linux is free...So where is it?

From: DanielEKFA (sorry.no.em_at_il.i.get.vira.and.spam)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:54:42 +0200

Mark wrote:
>>Why did OS/2 fail when it was "a better windows than windows"? Why did the
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> Because it was a commercial product that needed some presence in the
> market.
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>>Amiga fail when it was the best thing on the market? Why did the Tucker
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> The same applies here.
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>>fail when it was very far advanced over any other automobile made?
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> Linux won't fail. It has no operational costs. It does not depend on
> market success. It won't get buried when its owner loses interest.
> That's why commercial vendors start to 'fear' it. No matter how slowly
> open source projects pogress... they will eventually absorb most if
> not all functionality of commercial products.

Yep, they absorb everything except the bugs. Ain't it beautiful? :)

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