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Re: [SLE] This is very interesting
- From: David Johanson <dcjohan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:14:45 -0400
- Message-id: <42B40225.6080208@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Kevanf1 wrote:
I was just about to quote the same paragraph; you beat me to it.
I'll add this one additional paragraph that preceeds it; the last phrase says it all.
The Linux development system is not the problem; the vendor release schedule is the problem. You can almost hear the marketing teams asking, will 2.6.12 be out by the time we're ready to release? If a vendor would ever dare to show the patience and the confidence to do with Linux what Apple did with BSD, Microsoft would soon be on the ropes.
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On 18/06/05, michael norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:08, Sid Boyce wrote:
Of course, but PHB's also talk to the likes of IBM and demand reference
accounts when making decisions, also being ultra cautious people, they
also suspect rants. Many install Linux in their shops without reference
to the likes of IBM?Novell/RedHat and I doubt many of them have heard
of Theo or BSD. Many have shunned BSD and Linux would never have got
started if BSD was not seen as a sanctimonious and cleverer-than-thou
elitist clique unwilling to accept contributions from lower forms of
life. Theo has confirmed in the Forbes article what we always suspected
he thought, that Linux is developed by lower life forms and used only by
lower life forms.
Another good read of a MS salesman putting the frighteners up a PHB with
his own lies atop "Get The Lies".
http://lobby4linux.com/WordPress/?p=18
I'm still waiting for the article that will claim that Linux will rot
your teeth, eat your children and make any surviving children cook and
eat their parents - it can't be far off.
Regards
Sid.
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If i was tempted to try BSD (which I'm not because I'd have to rearrange all
my partitions to get an empty primary partition to put it on) I'm certainly
not now.
Mike
The interesting bit of the article is this -
"It's the vendors, not the developers, who need to slow down, and come
out with carefully de-bugged and polished combinations of kernels and
applications that work together well on a broad variety of hardware.
No one would build an automobile with the latest engine, the latest
transmission, the latest fuel system, without knowing whether or not
they work well together. Yet a Linux vendor thinks nothing of
literally slapping together the latest releases of every available
component and calling it a distro."
It may be unpalatable but if you step back and think hard about it
this is a sensible enough paragraph. As for the rest of hte article
though :-)
I was just about to quote the same paragraph; you beat me to it.
I'll add this one additional paragraph that preceeds it; the last phrase says it all.
The Linux development system is not the problem; the vendor release schedule is the problem. You can almost hear the marketing teams asking, will 2.6.12 be out by the time we're ready to release? If a vendor would ever dare to show the patience and the confidence to do with Linux what Apple did with BSD, Microsoft would soon be on the ropes.
--
David C. Johanson
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People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond
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think at all. -- Goethe
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