| ??? 01/25/08 14:43 Read: times |
#149956 - I didn't Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
I would not know about left them in the dust long ago In my world "left in the dust" means lost market share. To me it means better quality and stability. Even so, MS is losing market share--the only significant "sales" of Vista are due to preinstallation on new computers (the majority of which get wiped and the users install XP). You seem, at times to make me a Windows lover/Linux hater, I am neither, That's good to know. one final comment:
2) Open source projects of significance gain from the knowledge and experience of a world wide pool of talent That pool is very small for limited use programs. This is true. Jan Waclawek is the only one who has made extensive contributions to my own D52, but many others have offered ideas, suggestions, and occasional patches. That's why I specified projects of significance, ie: appealing to a wide audience. Even though the number of Linux kernel developers is small, contributions, bug fixes, and ideas come from a vast pool of talent. Now, of course, if you, instead of the '51 think PC the story changes dramatically. The "world wide pool of talent" that a) are qualified to program a PC and b) use a PC program called (if I recall) GCC does, of course make your arguments more valid in that case. We were talking about FOSS, not just 8052s. Have you ever thought about what the typical desktop would look like today, if Apple, like IBM had opened their PC design for everybody and his brother to copy. Yeah. The typical desktop would be based on 68K architecture instead of that crappy CPU from Intel ;-) |
