The Linux community believes in anarchy; they want everybody to be free to do as they please. By comparison, IBM and Sun have leadership, and they decide what will said about their products.
First paragraph: Yup. Anarchy. That's definately what freedom of speech is. I'm sure we would much better prefer a dictatorship where our rulers get to "decide what will said about their products". I mean, I doubt theres any reason that Hitler caused a world war, or that Castro's subjects are fleeing his country. Yeah.. dictatorship would be nice..
You completely avoided the point. Nice work. Simply say the claim is false without proving it.
Anybody can self-appoint himself as “Linux Spokeman” and say anything they please about Linux. There is no true leader to tell anybody to shut up.
Second paragraph: Learn what the hell you're talking about. If you even knew where the name Linux came from, you'd know that the "Linux Spokesperson" you speak of is Linus Torvalds. You know.. the guy who made Linux?
Really? I hear Linux spokesman, I think Novell or Red Hat or one of the hundreds of vendors of Linux out there who try to sell you their distribution of Linux. Not Linus. In fact, I haven't heard his name used when I hear GNU and/or Linux in a while. Who maintains the 2.4 kernel series? Oh yeah. Not Linus!
The Linux community behaves like a bunch of children in need of adult supervision. The Linux community needs a leader who can decide what Linux is and what its goals are. Is Linux a replacement to Windows? If not, stop fooling the public into thinking it is! If it is a Windows replacement, do not claim it can replace Windows until it actually can!
Third paragraph: Calling us a bunch of children in need of adult supervision does not even merit a responce. As far as the whole Windows replacement thing, I know for a fact that Linux can replace Windows. You don't once state what distribution of Linux you've used. Therefore this makes me assume that you don't know what the hell you're talking about, as you refer to the kernel as if it were the entire operating system. Please put an NT kernel on your drive and try booting, so that you can run your car on it's metal. I bet you probably picked a distribution intended for well-educated software developers who know every single thing that happens in a computer, such as Slackware or Gentoo. If you used a distribution intended for people who don't know anything about computers (read: you) such as Ubuntu or Debian, you would have clearly noticed that Linux is faster than Windows, and just as easy to use.
You use
us as in you use Linux. As far as I know, you don't.
. Either way, Linux can't replace Windows. Know why? Replace would imply
one hundred percent replace. You can't run 95% of the games on the market in Linux. You can't walk into a store and pick up a copy of Quicken for Linux. You can't have automatic updates; you have to manually update your kernel each time a new kernel is released, and on the 2.6 series, that's really quite often. I patched my kernel twice in one day at one point!
There's also no good alternative to Microsoft Exchange, something corporate people dig. The only open-source alternative just lost all their full time developers because well, the developers were from Novell. Rather, Microvell now.
It wouldn't matter what distribution of Linux he used. That isn't Linux, dummy. He's attacking the community. The community brags and boasts that "Linux" can replace Windows, when in fact, not one distribution poses a threat to usurping Microsoft on the desktop.
joe: statistics. I'd like to see some hard proof that linux > windows. Otherwise, what you spit is blather.
Young children with no computer skills can turn on a Macintosh and perform useful tasks without much training. Windows is almost as easy to use. However, Linux is so stupid that the users must learn about operating systems and then help Linux function.
Words have never been spoken so true.
The Linux community is so convinced of the superiority of Linux that it did not occur to anybody to stand up and yell,
“Wait a minute! We cannot put Linux in retail stores yet! It’s not ready the public! Are you guys crazy? People will get mad at us!”
The Linux community makes insulting remarks about the flaws in Windows and the bad behavior of Microsoft, but they release a version of Linux that is virtually worthless to most people and businesses. The Linux community is behaving worse than the people they ridicule.
That's true, too.
Another common conversation:
Eric: “Why doesn't Linux support my monitor?”
Joe: “The Linux community doesn't make drivers. The graphics card company hasn't bothered to make drivers! Complain to them!”
Eric: “Why are you releasing Linux for sale when the drivers are not ready? At least put a big warning on the front of the box!”
Joe: “Learn about computers before you buy! Are you a helpless baby?”
I hate to say it joe, but I think the article is bashing the people in the community like you.
