-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:33, Georgi Guninski wrote: <SNIP>
> A user told me: "Yesterday i bought a computer. played the windows game all > day long, but couldn't win once [1]" Here's a recent bit from Doc "Cluetrain" Searles along these lines. It is in response to the Novell acquisition of SuSE, but outlines very succinctly those things represented by Linux/Apache/etc. that are outside the scope or interest of MS or /any/ vendor. http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/2003-November/000058.html | Linux isn't a vendor product. Never was, never will be. It's not even | a product. It's a project by a development community that includes | many vendors but isn't driven by any of them. Same goes for other | members of the LAMP suite, with the single exception of MySQL, which | owns the code (making it, in that sense, proprietary) but locates | development squarely inside the community rather than in its own | corporate container. In other words, they are very | unvendor-like--market-compliant, I'd say. | | Development communities like Linux's grew out of the need to do what| | vendors couldn't do or wouldn't do. That doesn't make vendors bad or | anything; it just puts them in perspective. They can't do everything, | and now they don't have to. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sqqpJi2cv3XsiSARAtn5AKCoLUDQYrAceya4+lSAt2/T8PL72wCfUAXa vyO+zknoQ7PwLRDbsvSdvrI= =HL+P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
