On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 10:55 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Anyone read the blog? I was hoping for some con/de/structive
> feedback.
>
> Leslie
>
I just took the time to read your post, it was a very good read. There
are a few things which you may want to check out:
1) "Linux is replacing UNIX because there are Linux has licensing costs"
- Didn't understand the sentence
2) "The Net Laptop is the new hardware that runs Linux."
- Shouldn't that be netbook?
3) "The file system and architecture of Linux are such that virus
impregnation is virtually impossible."
- Is this true? What about rootkits? Also, if the user is dumb enough
to run something that contains "rm -fr ~" they will still lose
their data. Although, you could point out that this is much harder
to do under linux because random files can't be executed unless
they're specifically marked as executable. (eg. the old "executable
as an email attachment" trick won't necessarily work)
4) "Linux only uses public domain open source code without patents."
- Most code isn't public domain, it's GPL'd. The sqlite guy tried to
license his code as "public domain", but it was problematic because
in some countries "public domain" isn't recognized. He had to offer
explicit licenses for those cases. See [1].
5) "Microsoft has indicated that by 2012, many of their new applications
will be open source."
- That's pretty cool, link? :)
6) "[IBM has made the] Lotus notes application free and open"
- From what I can see [2], this isn't true. They contributed some
stuff back to the openoffice.org project but it's still non-free.
IIRC, they did release for free (as in beer) on linux-based OSs.
Other than that, it was great. I hope it gets published somewhere :)
nick
[1] http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_notes
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