Who, if any of you, rely on linux as a desktop machine? It has been represented to me that some hardware, i.e. certain modems and printers, only run on Microsoft windows. While I accept the statement on its face, I wonder why. Are the codes to make appropriate drivers impossible to write using unix or linux, or has a means to write an appropriate code just not yet been discovered, or what? Further, with respect to the truth, do any of you think that we have reached close to the potential of existing hardware in the world with software currently available, given all the nonsense and superstition that even I suspect? And, that in mind, would it be impossible to rewrite linux afresh with better code and tell detractors like the SCO group to get a new idea? Piracy has existed in many forms for a long time. Lies have existed for a long time, also. I believe that the best things in life are free.
How about China and its purchases of linux packages? What might China do with such? And it seems that few are afraid. Perhaps minimal fear is good, but Iraq did not scare me. I did appeal to a linux users group for help. Do you think that I should have asked IBM?
