On Fri, 5 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> I don't think there are many people in the Linux/Unix community, or
> any community for that matter that can match what he has done. I
> always find it amusing when I see people pointing at the blue screen
> or the bugs, but at the same time I don't see their name on any huge
> software success' out there. When you can do it better, and prove it
> by selling it, then you can throw stones.
You clearly have no concept of what Linux and the Linux community is. WE
DON'T SELL SOFTWARE. WE GIVE IT AWAY. By your definition, Linux can never
be successful.
As for living in two different worlds... I work at a Linux company. The
ONLY thing that keeps our environment from being 100% Linux is that our
management and staff types INSIST that we be able to read and write MS
Office formats, in order to communicate with our customers. Were it not
for that, our common, everyday users would be using Linux without any
trouble. Replacements for these applications exist and run perfectly fine
under Linux. We can't use them because of a perceived dependence on a
monopolistic proprietary data format.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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