I'm a little late on this thread but I read the article "Should Linux Start
Playing Dirty?" and when I suddenly read this sentence:
This Web page can only be viewed using Linux
I started thinking, what do you think of when you think Windows? I think
Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Office. When I think of Linux I think of
Apache Web Server, Netscape, Mozilla, telnetd/ftpd, and term. Maybe I think
Star Office, but not until I brood longer than a minute or two.
What made me think of this word association game was the quote above didn't
make any sense? Linux is just the OS, nothing is "best viewed in Linux."
The thing that is "linux" rarely shows it's real face - the face of linux
(or rather the mask) are (for me) those applications that listed. But
equally important facet in this word game was the visceral response that I
noticed as I thought of each of these apps:
Apache (kicks butt), Netscape (sucky), Mozilla (sucky, but better),
telnetd/ftpd (very convenient), and term (gotta have your term)
and then a little later
Star Office ( ugh... )
So there was only one high point, but notice there's not a lot of client
software and the client software that was liste das opposed to Windows where
it was all client software. IIS only occurred to me just now...
When is the time for Evolution and Nautilus to become synonymous with linux?
When does Konqueror becomes synonymous with linux? When web sites say "This
Web page best viewed in Mozilla" will that be a win for linux?
I look for a time when corporations standardize on Evolution and OpenLDAP
because they are sick of Microsoft's bastardizations of the standards and
those linux apps have stepped way beyond the plate and have built true
features on top of the standards. When people use Star Office because it
provides true integration between app and for developers. When Inuit,
Adobe, et al. have seriously ported their applications to Linux.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Mirles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?
>
>
> Dude, read the whole article. The last paragraph is used to
> explain the
> joke.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by
> what i read. Either
> >this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable
> stupid or he's a
> >paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark
> back at the dog that
> >barks at you. Figure that one out!!
> >
> >What exactly is what the open source is trying to
> accomplish? Compete with M$
> >or be a better, more reliable option for people who use
> computers? mandrake 8,
> >gnone, ximian, gnucash, staroffice are excellent examples of
> the way open
> >source can outperform microshit products. Adopting, like the
> author suggests,
> >microshit strategies will further alianate the few windows
> users interested in
> >knowing more about linux.
> >
> >At best this is a bad idea with good intentions, and at
> worst, an attempted of
> >ms cronies to divide the open source community
> >
> >skinky wrote:
> >
> >>Got this link on another mailing list - thought someone
> might find it
> >>interesting. Not such a bad idea.
> >>
> >>http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9787.html
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>skinky
> >>
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