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Re: [News] Novell Promotes Microsoft's Agenda, Brings More Mono to Linux, Weakens Adobe

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Silverlight on Linux? We're in, says Mono founder
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Mono developers stand to benefit from the Dynamic Language Runtime,
> | which Microsoft announced on Monday. The code for the Dynamic
> | Language Runtime, which allows dynamic language programmers to
> | create .Net applications, will be released under a license that
> | allows commercial companies to redistribute and modify the code.
> `----
> 
>
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714669-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
> 
> Use Silverlight, get sued?
> 
> In the following article, Novell does its arrogant thing again.
> 
> Linux Vendors Welcome Dell's Prebundling Move
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Leading Linux distributors Red Hat and Novell's SUSE have welcomed
> | the news that Dell is going to prebundle Ubuntu Linux on certain
> | consumer machines, saying the move is good for society, customers
> | and the industry.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | But, for Novell, Dell's announcement is nothing more than the
> | loading of Linux onto desktops aimed at the technical enthusiast
> | community--the same community of people who voted on Dell's
> | IdeaStorm Web site. These are not Novell's target customers for
> | the Linux desktop, Steinman said.
> `----
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2124578,00.asp
> 
> He implies that 'hobbyists' use Ubuntu Linux.

There is some of that in it, that Linux exists firstly in the server world
because it is just a good server. But in the desktop world because it
attracted the adventurous inquisitive minds needed to make it so.

But once Dell has it on it's shelves, then we are beyond just attracting the
likes of us and on to attracting another sort of user. The sort of user
that doesn't give a monkeys bare behind what OS is on the computer, so long
as they can get on with what they want to do with that computer. For those
the price difference means that  Vista doesn't get a look in. Pretty
interfaces may sell to the gullible, but to the none gullible all they
really want is software that does what software should do. 

Of cause we will also attract the stupid too, but we have had enough
experiences with the stupid coming into the Linux world over the years now
that we should be able to cope. (says 4 hail maries and counts some beads).



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