Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> GNU/Linux is not ahead of Windows. It is /MILES/ ahead of Windows
These guys missed that memo:
"Vista is introducing alot of new features and I'm pretty sure we can (or
will very shortly) replicate most of those features in Ubuntu."
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-161670.html
> and, to a large extent, Mac OS X too. Why is Linux misunderstood?
It's understood perfectly well: born and bred as a clone, continues to
"borrow" from everything else in sight, bereft of ideas, poorly marketed,
buggy, inconsistent, amateurish, half-ass code tossed out willy-nilly by
inexperience hackers, then labeled 'excellent' by immature
Microsoft-haters...
There's your "community".
> Because it has no marketing department. Linux attracts the best of
> minds and benefits from collaboration of minds, many of which are
> prominent in academia
Like you, right?
> and are thus masters of their domain (e.g. security).
Spare us. Ever read www.linuxsecurity.com? You really should. If you had
any integrity, you would repost lots of their security advisories.
> As for Vista, there is little advancement in it that bear any
> significance.
There's a boatload of significant new features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
It's going to blow Linux away, and force that <1% market share down to
<0.1%.
> The "XP" in "Vista eXPerience" should serve as a hint.
> Longhorn is dead. It was scraped. Gone in 2005. RIP. No WinFS (which
> Linux has from PalmSource/ACCESS by the, way, under an Open Source
> licence), no SOA, nothing of value. Oh! Except for encrypted signals
> that help Holywood sell and resell content to a poorer end user (AKA
> mindless peon with minimal wage).
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