"Vicente A.S. Werner" wrote:
>
> There's a great economic point in using free software, you certainly don't
> get any guarantees but what can give you more guarantee
> that a great pool of developers and web sites using linux?.
I am amazed at how Bill Gates discounts Linux. His argument is that having so
many fingers in the pie menas Linux will never be stable.
*This* is great marketing. Windows users never experience incorrect this
statement is, and therefor fall hook-line-and-sinker for it. It *sounds*
realistic. Tell a bunch of people who are used to paying for a company to
create and build software that Linux is created by a chaotic slew of unrelated
people who never even talk to each other and live in different countries all
over the world, and this seems like logic to unknowing ears.
Alas, this is exactly what makes Linux so strong. It is a huge network of
unrelated individuals working on different aspects of the whole. And that
whole is assembled by companies like SLS (once), RedHat, SuSE and whoever
else. It is somewhat equivalent to Microsoft buying out companies instead
investing in training new divisions of people for the next internet fad. To a
Linuxy or Free-BSDer, this makes total sense. To a Microsoft enthusiast, this
is complete malarky.
Laters,
Karsten
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