Why Tea wrote:
> On Jul 8, 1:34 pm, ed <e...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:01:38 -0000
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>> Why Tea <ytl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Jul 7, 9:14 pm, John Locke <johnlocke98...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:00:32 -0000, Why Tea <ytl...@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >Will it be a different world today if Linux came before Windows?
>> > > >Will Linux be able to lead the PC revolution like Windows?
>>
>> > > OS/2 came out about same time as Windows and it was a far superior
>> > > operating system. With advent of Windows 3.0 and the breakup of
>> > > Microsoft and IBM in 1990, OS/2 fell behind and Windows sky rocketed
>> > > to the desktops.
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>> > > If there were a desktop Linux then, it probably would have suffered
>> > > the same fate. Its called marketing (some would say propaganda).
>> > > No other corporation in history has ever matched Microsoft in
>> > > retailing power. Windows was a crummy product, but it was the
>> > > grease for the Microsoft sales engine.
>>
>> > Yes, many people (engineers, designers especially) have no idea of
>> > such a thing called MARKETING. A product doesn't become a product
>> > until you market it. Many good ideas came out of PARC but never became
>> > products.
>>
>> > Everyone wants to cut down a tool poppy. Bill Gates is the tallest of
>> > all, so it's not hard to see why. Someone once said, you have to be
>> > good to be lucky. Gates must be doing something right to bring Windows
>> > to where it is today. While we don't agree with many things MS has
>> > done, we should still give credit when credit is due.
>>
>> > Linux is at an advantageous position to compete with Windows to be the
>> > number one choice of desktop OS. For a start, Linux is free! Secondly,
>> > there is a target to shoot at. Why hasn't Linux done better?
>>
>> Because GNU/Linux is constantly fighting FUD. Look at this newsgroup
>> for a start, everyone here is basically fighting in one direction or
>> another, it's just a constant waste of the GNU/Linux programmers time.
>
> You are right on the money. This newsgroup is more or less the
> microcosm of the Linux community.
This claim of yours is naturally utter bollocks
> The in-fighting,
You mean the different view on things? Very healthy attitude
> the everyone-but-Linux-is-evil attitude,
Nope. Windows is evil, as long as it is connected to the internet
> etc. is the Achilles heel of the community.
Thus spoke the wintroll
> Look at the flurries of distros,
Isn't choice just great?
> everyone is trying to outdo everyone else.
Nope. They try to do what they think is fine for them
> Why don't they just channel their energies into making a few
> standardized distros,
Yup. The Hadron Quark idiocy.
> making them more user friendly
Even *more* userfriendly? It has already surpassed windows by quite some
margin in that
> and producing more useful applications, ...?
You would not know. You run wintendo
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