On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:48:28 -0600, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just think for a minute, open source or closed, just how many users would
> actually be able to use that, to understand it?
I dont that makes much diff; the diff is peer review. With proprietary
software, it's like buying a car with the hood welded shut. If you ever
have trouble with it, no mechanic is going to be able to tell you what
it is.
It is the reason why Windoz crashes so often, and Linux so rarely;
The former is the result of a 'get it out the door' for higher quarterly
profits, and the latter is up for peer review where sloppy workmanship
gets identified with authorship. with open source, you know who wrote
what, and the authors know that as well. Torvals knows that his name
will be forever attached to Linux, and he took the extra time to make
sure the product did not besmirch his reputation. What he cared about
was not money, but his character. I dont think you can say that about
Bill Gates.
Windoz is like the automatic transmission. Linux has been like a kit
car they ship in a box, and you gotta put it together, but they are
setting up dealerships and pounding out the kinks in the bodywork so
it looks nice to the customer... who, once he learns how to do a stick
shift, will find it much more useful to get out of sticky situations.
And of course, like DOS, he's always got the CLI, which is like a big
muddy 4X4 which can walk you thru anything.
Ultimately, windoz will be history; with the open source, peripheral
manufacturers can optimize the performance of their hardware and still
get extremely low MTBF rates. The win app black boxes sent to them
was good enough to get a thing up and running, and out to the market
fast. But now, we all got scanners, printers, soundcards, etc, and
the competitive edge will be seen in robust performance. I dont need
more colors, 16million is enough, nor higher dpi rates, eyeballs cant
tell the diff anymore. I'd like fast, reliable, performance.
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
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