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Moshe Goldfarb.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:44:08 -0400, DFS wrote:
> "51. Since application developers working under an open-source model are not
> looking to recoup their investment and make a profit by selling copies of
> their finished products, they are free from the imperative that compels
> proprietary developers to concentrate their efforts on Windows. In theory,
> then, open-source developers are at least as likely to develop applications
> for a non-Microsoft operating system as they are to write Windows-compatible
> applications. In fact, they may be disposed ideologically to focus their
> efforts on open-source platforms like Linux. Fortunately for Microsoft,
> however, there are only so many developers in the world willing to devote
> their talents to writing, testing, and debugging software pro bono publico.
> A small corps may be willing to concentrate its efforts on popular
> applications, such as browsers and office productivity applications, that
> are of value to most users. It is unlikely, though, that a sufficient number
> of open-source developers will commit to developing and continually updating
> the large variety of applications that an operating system would need to
> attract in order to present a significant number of users with a viable
> alternative to Windows. In practice, then, the open- source model of
> applications development may increase the base of applications that run on
> non- Microsoft PC operating systems, but it cannot dissolve the barrier that
> prevents such operating systems from challenging Windows."
>
> http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#iiib
The linux model is completely flawed.
After 15+ plus years, the desktop still sits at a pathetic 0.6 percent
desptie being free.
That is pathetic and proof enough that Linux needs to figure out why people
seem to dislike it so much that they would rather pay for a Mac than use
free Linux on the hardware they already have.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
> "51. Since application developers working under an open-source model are not
> looking to recoup their investment and make a profit by selling copies of
> their finished products, they are free from the imperative that compels
> proprietary developers to concentrate their efforts on Windows. In theory,
> then, open-source developers are at least as likely to develop applications
> for a non-Microsoft operating system as they are to write Windows-compatible
> applications. In fact, they may be disposed ideologically to focus their
> efforts on open-source platforms like Linux. Fortunately for Microsoft,
> however, there are only so many developers in the world willing to devote
> their talents to writing, testing, and debugging software pro bono publico.
> A small corps may be willing to concentrate its efforts on popular
> applications, such as browsers and office productivity applications, that
> are of value to most users. It is unlikely, though, that a sufficient number
> of open-source developers will commit to developing and continually updating
> the large variety of applications that an operating system would need to
> attract in order to present a significant number of users with a viable
> alternative to Windows. In practice, then, the open- source model of
> applications development may increase the base of applications that run on
> non- Microsoft PC operating systems, but it cannot dissolve the barrier that
> prevents such operating systems from challenging Windows."
>
> http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#iiib
The linux model is completely flawed.
After 15+ plus years, the desktop still sits at a pathetic 0.6 percent
desptie being free.
That is pathetic and proof enough that Linux needs to figure out why people
seem to dislike it so much that they would rather pay for a Mac than use
free Linux on the hardware they already have.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/