On Sunday 22 February 2004 1:12 pm, Jos Vos wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:52:16PM +0200, xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I use Linux at work... I am a kernel hacker at work. That is my job. > > Redhat 9 works for me at work because the motherboard is not completely > > state of the art. > > Right, and state of the art MB's, notebooks etc. indeed do not always > (completely) work. So, unfortunately, we as Linux users have to be > very careful when buying such hardware. *Always* do some research > *before* buying HW. Thus, Linux stays as a hobbyist/hacker system for the desktop. > > Agreed: this shouldn't be needed, this is a bad thing. But what is the > real reason? That is that some vendors don't care and/or have hidden > contracts with M$ and/or are blackmailed by M$ or whoever. This is the > sad world we have to live in, but things are still improving, IMHO, > so go complain to the HW manufacturers, tell them to support Linux, > do *never* pay for a Windows license if you don't use it (i.e. ask > that money back, which they have to do because of the M$ EULA), etc. If vendors have hidden contracts or are being blackmailed by M$, what good would it do to complain to them about their lack of support for Linux? > > > However, even with all of M$ garbage, the bottom line is that their > > garbage works on my system and Linux does not. > > Yes, and this is *not* because M$ is good and Linux is bad, but because > those manufacturers have "close cooperations" with M$ and don't care > (or are not allowed to care!!!) about Linux. I didn't say anything about "good" or "bad" here aside from the pragmatic observation that M$'s OS works for me and Linux doesn't. This is the crux of why M$ still has the stranglehold it has in the desktop market and will continue to for a good long while even if the Open Source solution is free. Free, in any way, doesn't matter if it doesn't work. From what I see here, M$ doesn't have anything to worry about with its desktop solutions for quite a while. > > -- > -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
