Concerning the Dick Wall's Linux statement.
It was implied that Google is the best thing going for Linux.
I respectfully disagree.
Lets not forget:
-> Nokia (sponsors of Maemo for mobile, this phone supports more apps
than any other yet most
American's have never heard of it)
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
-> Oracle (based on their statements, all Oracle internal systems are
Oracle unbreakable Linux)
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/media/podcast/2008/05/open-voices-edward-screven-oracle
-> IBM
-> VMware (recently joined the Linux foundation)
-> Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter etc.
-> RedHat and Novell
-> OLPC (one laptop per child)
-> Amazon (retail, Kindle, and EC2)
To name a few.
Please read the following article examining some places Linux is being
used that the average person might not expect.
http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/
Concerning Linux on the desktop.
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I have used Debian GNU Linux for several years now (I do not own a
Wintel nor Mac machine).
I started trying to get people to use systems like Ubuntu for years
with little success.
We Linux people must resign ourselves to the fact that most American's
simply cannot handle products that are not commercial. We as a people
seem to need a corporate head feeding us stories about why we should
submit to them financially and/or spiritually, as if we simply cannot
live without them.
It is especially disappointing when technically minded people seem not
to understand the validity of free software.
One thing I have learned is that if commercial companies will not
support Linux, the Linux community will support Linux. There is
nothing that I need from a computer that Linux does not supply
quickly, cheaply, and securely.
Concerning the sheep. I am not sure how long it will take for them to
understand the pitfalls of software commercialization. Fighting Apple
vs. Adobe or Sun vs. Microsoft or SAP vs. Oracle or Google vs.
everybody is simply too tiring. It almost reminds me of the days when
we would store music files in Real Player format, seems kinda silly in
retrospect huh?
Java itself was a failed commercial attempt which eventually needed to
be free. Unfortunately Sun did not realize in time that their closed
approach would eventually lead to their demise (as Red Hat's stock
price soared passed theirs with offerings like Jboss and RHEL). Lets
see if Oracle learns any lessons from this.
A brief timeline...
1998 β Realizing that the applet thing is fading fast, Sun repositions
Java again, this time as a server language. They steal the design of
Microsoft Transaction Server and convince everyone to pretend they
created the design.
1999 β Java 2 Enterprise Edition is introduced to the rave reviews of
drunk and stoned industry analysts. 21,499,512 articles are written
about it, but no one actually uses it because itβs immature and
expensive.
2000 β J2EE finally works, sort of. Just about the time all the Java
vendors are ready to start making money on it, Microsoft
announces .NET, which includes almost all the features of J2EE except
the outrageous cost. In fact, Microsoft decides to give .NET away free
for Windows users. Scott McNealy is so outraged he files another
irrational lawsuit against Microsoft.
Thanks for hearing me out.
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