Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista
Ringmaster wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:51 -0700, "uwe" <forspammers@no.ne> wrote:
>
>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the consumer
>> market. If I put a year's worth of work into an application, I have a
>> potential market of about 90% of desktops worldwide at best. Now, if I would
>> waste my time to write desktop (!) applications for LINUX, how many
>> potential customers worldwide, who are actually willing to pay for my work,
>> would I have? Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans
>> howling when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world. Big
>> chance missed, folks.
>>
>> Uwe
>
> They told Columbus the world was flat and if he went on his historic
> voyage he would sail off the end of the earth or be eaten by sea
> monsters.
>
> They laughed at the Wright Brothers and said if man was meant to fly
> he would have been born with wings.
>
> When railroads first came on the scene respected doctors said it was
> just too dangerous to travel fasted that 30 mile per hour.
>
> Many states enacted silly laws like for example if you drove one of
> the new fangled inventions called a automobile at night somebody had
> to walk 20 paces in front of it holding a lantern.
>
> So-called "science" once stated the sun and all the stars and planets
> revolved around the earth and the earth was the center of the
> universe.
>
> They laughed at Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell for inventing the
> electric light and telephone. Where would the world be today without
> either of these inventions so many devices of today are based on?
>
> Less than 30 years ago they said personal computers were just a
> passing fad.
>
> The inventor of the photocopy machine spent years trying to get just
> about every major corporation there was to provide start up money for
> his invention. They all said no, who would want to make copies of
> documents with a machine, where we already have carbon paper?
>
> Had enough?
>
> Windows is popular because once upon a time it was either that or get
> a Mac. Times change. If people limit their choices, then their choices
> will always be limited. Linux isn't for everybody. Then again Windows
> shouldn't have to be either. If nobody develops for Linux, then it
> never will take off.
>
> I feel like a hostage to Microsoft. I feel forced to used Windows. It
> isn't that I want to, rather some of the applications I use only run
> under Windows and nothing as yet works as well under Linux that fill
> my needs. Mac isn't a choice for me, I feel and have always felt it
> was over priced and too restrictive.
>
> If you as a developer aren't interested in the huge audience that
> would dump Windows in a heart beat if something better came along,
> sooner or later somebody else will take the gamble. Mankind lurches
> forward on dreamers and visionaries. I named a few. I guess you're not
> one of them. It's easy to be a follower. Being a leader takes smarts,
> and guts and yes, some luck.
My hubby Ringmaster would like to be a leader, but he doesn't have the
smarts, guts or luck to be one. He also does not play nice with others.
He can be so dog gone mean and ugly at times!