Dan Tudor wrote:
<rm>
> comes from here.
> All that still needs to be changed is our attitude. The "save the
> whales"/"greenpeace" attitude, with fanatic actions, a reminiscence of
> the times when Linux didn't have a chance against commercial OS's (like
> Windows) MUST be changed with a more rational, logical and deep
> attitude. We must replace the desperation of the losers (please remember
> the protests i mentioned about in the beginning) with the calm
> and serenity of the winners.
I mostly agree. Linux has really already "won" in a sense, because
there will always be people interested in continuing development for it,
and therefore Linux itself will continue. There is no business to go
out of business with linux.
I don't believe that we need to change our attitudes, or more
specifically, our philosophies to allow Linux to have success in the
corporate world. I am a very strong believer in the Free Software
Foundation, GNU and the GPL. I literally do believe all software should
be free. I am realistic about it, but my philosophy is in tact.
If I were only concerned about using the very best workstation operating
system available for my workstation needs, then I would be using the
BeOS and developing more for it (as I should be :-)) I do use Be, but
it is not my primary OS. Linux is, and as time goes on, I shy further
and further away from using proprietary software, not necessarily
because it is inferior, but because it speaks of greed.
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