On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:39 PM, BINNY THOMAS <[email protected]> wrote: > "What will come after Linux?" > > Something better I hope!!!!
Well, this is both true and false at the same time. I'm reminded of that old fake-paradoxes: you buy a computer one day. Within the first month, you replace the HDD. IN the second month, you replace the RAM ... and so on, until a few months later, there's no single part of the original computer left. Is it still the same computer? Take another software analogy: KDE 3.5 was largely rewritten to create KDE4. Let's say KDE6 will also be a rewrite, and that not a single line of code that was originally in KDE3.5 remains. Is it still KDE? Yes it is! Because KDE is not just the software code, but also the community and most importantly - the *process*. So, while there are a LOT of OSes that died because of their proprietary nature: even though community continued to exist, a part of the *process* died and took the whole platform with it. Linux is here to stay, and will likely remain for a long time. Because of the nature of its process, there will always be someone willing to continue to maintain it. Whether it fade away to near obscurity or move to ubiquity is still of course a matter for the future ;) Also, note that there are already several contenders in the OS space, such as BSDs, Solaris, etc. Regards Rajeev J Sebastian -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
