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Re: The State of Ubuntu 7.04 Is Strong

  • Subject: Re: The State of Ubuntu 7.04 Is Strong
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:59:04 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ John Locke ] on Wednesday 09 May 2007 00:34 \__

> On 8 May 2007 13:40:10 -0700, "nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>Quote:
>>--------------
>>With companies and individuals everywhere failing to find the wow in
>>Windows Vista, Apple's OS X riding iPod sales and snarky commercials
>>to steady growth, and long-time Microsoft partner Dell announcing
>>plans to market a Linux desktop to the mainstream, it seems certain
>>that the days of Microsoft's desktop monopoly are numbered.
>>----------------
>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2126936,00.asp?kc=EWLINEMNL050807EOAD
> 
> No one would like to see the demise of Microsoft more I would, but in
> reality, they are still a very powerful and influential force. Their
> retailing distribution system is like none other. I would assume, and
> I could be wrong, that they already have plans in the work to counter
> market loss for the desktop.
> 
> Linux will need to improve even further, and user awareness will need
> to be expanded before Microsoft  will take a fall.  I believe this is
> still an evolutionary process that may take a great deal of time and
> patience.

As pointed uote before, Linux makes progress at a very rpaid pace because ,
rather than have a 'cubicle farm' handle some bit of isolated code in
isolation (e.g. kernel and device drivers), you have got a whole community
of users. Looking back at the release of Windows XP and KDE 2.1, Linux has
made breaktaking progress. Windows has made none (less applications work).
The same goes for Apple, which is apparently putting some lipstick on a pig.

Has Leopard fallen into a Copland-Vista Conundrum?

,----[ Quote ]
| Has Leopard fallen into a Copland-Vista Conundrum? Consider the actual
| events during Apple's Copland and Microsoft's Vista crisis periods and
| compare them to today's delay of Leopard. The factors that held up
| both Copland and Vista simply don't apply to Leopard.
`----

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/5884216C-E7F9-4D04-B1DA-8122CF4E9481.html

To be fair, Apple does innovate a thing or two, but the idea often come from
those who are creative, those who exchange ideas and source code without
restrictions.

http://www.gridter.com/articles/software_cycle.html

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