On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:27:13PM +0000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
hi
any comments on this quote today ?
Customers, he said, misunderstood what Linux was, thinking that it was brand new technology rather than just recycled Unix.
I suppose that's true enough but Unix never had such a large user/developer base which makes things a bit different. It seems that people are obsessed with `brand new technology' - the latest Ferrari uses an engine who's principles were laid out more than 100 yrs ago but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad car. Most `customers' don't understand the developmental cycle of any complex artifact: Brand new != best
"We're not changing the rules of physics in the universe here"
We might not be but what we are doing is changing the status quo of how software is developed - the cathedrals are tumbling down.
and that the best Linux can offer is "better technology for the same money."
That sounds like a good enough deal to me.
There is, he said, "a wake-up call" sounding "for many.
I don't know who `he' is or the `many' that he's talking about are so it's impossible to contextualise that comment. I guess he's talking about people who misunderstand the true value of open source software, in which case he's probably right. -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/