Steve Dunford wrote: > I think M$ bashing is fun, just like the next guy... but Linux is > playing catchup, and is a very distant second as far as the desktop and > personal use space is concerned.
This is because too much effort is spent in emulating Windows rather then replacing it. > And while Linux is leaping forward, so > is Windows - not to mention the myriad of other products that Microsoft > have in their portfolio. Eventually won;t it be like processors? Where the average desktop has three times the grunt the average user needs? At this point the software becomes equal - and escalating costs make a difference too. > This is a warning more than anything. Linux is behind, and will be for > some time. I don't think the world can afford to have M$ pull out of the > running - they push technology. M$ *control* the technology. Linux will come into its own when the end user can click on a button and print their own CPU, display, WLAN assembly etc. At the moment they can't but things are a-changing. Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
