On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:16 +0000, billwg wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1341406.SaBJnzNfJ7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Q&A: Linux Guns for Desktop
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>> | Now Mr. Raymond is pushing the most dangerous idea of all: that open
>> | source is good for more than geeks. And he?s pushing hard.
>> |
>> | [...]
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>> | ...But even Mr. Raymond has his limits, calling Microsoft PowerPoint a
>> tool
>> | for the "stupid and weak-minded."
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>> http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18176&hed=Linux%20Desktop%20Window%20Closing?
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> Kind of cheeky, that Raymond fellow! "The brutal truth is that even the
> largest hardware vendors these days cannot really afford to hire enough
> software engineers to do all the development of software that they would
> like to. So, a very sensible way for them to address that problem is open
> source the platform and then encourage other people to do that development
> either on a volunteer basis or because doing that development achieves
> business objectives for them. "
>
> So here is the hardware vendor with his inability (or at least lack of
> desire) to pay his software people what it takes so he wishes and hopes
> that, like for the poor old shoemaker, some elves will come in and do the
> work that needs to be done to make the hardware a success. Maybe his name
> is really Eric S. Grimm! LOL!!!
>
> There may be a few screw loose software developers out there who will jump
> at the opportunity that this presents, but I really doubt that there are
> very many of them and the companies pursuing the conventional course of
> paying people for their services will be in the market a lot sooner.
> Really.
Anyone who fails to figure out that Linux and open source, like virtually
everything else on earth is all about money is a fool.
Somewhere, somehow, someone is making a buck............
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