Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 January 2001 19:06, Dee McKinney wrote:

> >I don't know enough about the topic to say for sure, but it looks
> > like M$ have open the FUD gates here.  I thought some of you
> > might be interested:
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/serverappliance/kempin.asp
>
> What a hoot. This is like watching a stupid commercial about
> competition between pizza companies :)
>
> I know of several organizations dumping MS for Linux, and once
> done, it will
>
> be history for MS.
>
> /Dee


The battle is far from over and Linux could still lose.  The big problem is
the browser arena.   If M$s share of the web browser continues to grow
it could leverage Linux out of the server room and off the Internet.

Mozilla has so far failed to step up the plate with a browser that people
can trust.  They got sidetracked into thinking they were an OS.  
Konqueror, IMO, is the best Linux based browser out there and the 
only one with the correct paradigm and active development crew to 
meet the challange.  GNOME is too difficult to develop for, so I don't
look for any solution to come from MZ or GNOME anytime soon.

-- 
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. 
Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- 
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.