Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1784 mails)

[tomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (S.Toms)]

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:26:42 -0800 (PST)
From: "S.Toms" <tomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012111717420.1633-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: CNBC.com - Stocks



On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dennis wrote:

d> Agreed, and if we don't buy M$ OS now, why on earth we're going to buy
d> M$(Linux) OS later?
d> 
d> I believed if M$ can produce better Linux, SuSE will be producing best
d> Linux. :)
d> 

  Only problem I see is that there are many people out there who have
heard of linux but havn't ventured into it because of the difficulties
that they may have also heard of. Those same people are going to buy it
from MS simply because they figure MS will make it easier for them.
  Hate to say it, but this means that linux needs to become as easy to
install as MS or for that matter Mac which in my opinion is even easier
than MS so that those people won't flock to an MS brand of linux (if that 
ever happens).

d> RH is having best 3rd party software support at the moment, but it is a
d> lousy Linux as far as I feel (I use it at work on one server and the rest of
d> the 5 servers are running SuSE7. :)>
d> 
d> A choice is a choice, no one can force anyone in open source community,
d> correct me if I'm wrong, please.
d> 
d> So don't worry, point 2, 3 and 4 of Alvaro are also my points. Let's look on
d> the bright side and move ahead...
d> 
d> Bye now, it's 1:38am here, need some sleep.
d> 
d> Dennis
d> @Singapore
d> 
d> 
d> 
d> > On Sunday 10 December 2000 18:04, Jonathan Drews wrote:
d> > > Hi:
d> > >
d> > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, you wrote:
d> > > > Some disturbing thoughts.....
d> > > >
d> > > >
d> > > > http://www.cnbc.com/news/001208plotkin.html
d> > >
d> > >  Yeah that's really bad; the notion that  M$ would do an extend and
d> embrace
d> > > on Linux.
d> >
d> > No, that would be really good because:
d> >
d> > 1) It would be a victory for the open source model, or if you want, a
d> clear
d> > defeat for "closed source" == Microsoft
d> >
d> > 2) It would send a strong signal to the markets that open source is the
d> way
d> > to go, cutting off for good the doubts/questions that prevent millions of
d> > potential users to make the move to open source.
d> >
d> > 3) (Which is in 2) Hardware out of the box with open source drivers, and
d> >
d> > 4) More competition, lower prices.
d> >
d> > My tuppence,
d> >
d> > Alvaro Novo
d> >
d> > SuSE 6.4 -=- Kernel 2.2.17 -=- KDE 2.0.1
d> >   6:09pm  up  5:34,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.06, 0.01
d> >
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d> 
d> 
d> 


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