dizzy wrote:
>
> yea well ...There seems to be a bit of truth to this statement
>
> "Today the browsers have gotten rich enough that it's not the kind of software
> that you can develop and test in a university-type of environment," he said.
>
> the next post talks about execs leaving netscape....
> then we hear about ie being ported to unix [yech]
>
> seems to me that before netscape was bought out by aol we had a chance but in the
> last year or so its been downhill and ie seems to take up the slak.
> One other observation on my part... concidence or not, but the instablity seemd to
> arise when ns realeased its source-- it dosnt seem the OS programmers going
> anywhere with it. It just seems to get more resource hungry and less stable.
> Dont get me wrong... Ive *never* even used ie!! and I hate to see ns take a
> downslide which IMO apears to be happening
> rob
It amazes me how 'down in the mouth' some people get just because Bill
Gates is running around the country shouting "the Linux sky is
falling". Gates isn't and can't do anything to change the future of
Linux. It is not in his hands. Linux isn't like "Netscape", for
example, which had to continually generate income for salaries, overhead
and stock profits competing against M$'s browser without having M$'s
marketing channel and without controlling the OS. Linux hasn't needed
or used any of that. Linux has arrived where it is at today by being a
fast and stable OS that is free, and by word of mouth. Nothing has
changed. Linux will continue to be free no matter what M$ does. It
will continue to be fast and powerful. Even RedHat knows that it's
presence and growth is because of Linux and not the other way around.
Linux will continue to grow, as it has been doing, because it is now a
tested OS that has reached a critical mass.
I view Gate's appearances, and those of his sychophants and FUD
dispensers, as an indication of his/their desperation. More and more
people/companies are realizing how much money can be saved, how much
speed and stability can be achieved using Linux. A business with 30
servers and 300 workstations can save nearly $500,000 avoiding a single
Windows "upgrade" cycle! That ain't chicken feed. With the advent of
high quality X-clients like KDE (and GNOME, if it ever gets out of
beta), an exploding third party market and EOM/VARs selling PC with
Linux installed, even the computer neophytes will find migrating to
Linux easy.
No need to dispare. "Just dance with the one that brought you to the
dance."
JLK
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JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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