Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
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> | Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a
> | technical and business point of view, is proving to be a
> | failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after
> | time that they can deliver the goods?
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> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html
Nothing other than a total rewrite / redesign will fix Windows'
problems IMHO. If Microsoft were to open-source it the only benefit to
SW developers would be to see how not to write an OS.
> He has plenty of links there to show that Vista is indeed a major
> flop.
There is no doubt about that regardless of what the likes of OK say.
The question is, can Microsoft's illegally maintained monopoly, ie
force OEM's to drop XP (which most users appear to want), force Vista
onto peoples desktop?
There is a huge opportunity for Linux and OSS here but only if the
OEM's have the guts to give Microsoft the finger and offer a Linux
distro as an alternative. Corporate / government CTO's aren't going
to touch Vista for the foreseeable future, certainly not before SP1,
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