On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:39 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Now if you remove the zealot part I'll say they care very much after > interoperability. They support multiple non-Linux filesystems, have > samba, wine, etc. No one in the industry has gone so far to communicate > gracefully with other systems, except perhaps the BSDs (and I doubt BSDs > have such a strong commitment, as they have a much more limited focus). >
There is a very good reason. Open Source people do not make money by directly selling software licenses. That makes a big difference to motivation. There is far more pressure for commercial license vendors to shut out anything else to maximise revenue. While companies like Sun have an interest in developing the environment to sell their products there is a lot less direct pressure to try and enforce lock in through proprietary software standards. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
