Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document

Dave DeMaagd (demaagd@imagegroup.com)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:48:26 -0500 (EST)


> "Linux = Best of Breed UNIX. Linux outperforms many other UNIX's in most
> major performance category (networking, disk I/O, process ctx switch, etc.).
> To grow their featurebase, Linux has also liberally stolen features of other
> UNIX's (shell features, file systems, graphics, CPU ports)"
>
> This quote, taken from
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html
>
> is most disturbing, mostly because it's not true. It has made me decide to
> remove all Microsoft product from this particular computer as soon as
> possible. It is unfortunate that Microsoft has decided to follow this kind
> of path.
>
What is so not true about that??? For something to be good, it does not
necessarily have to be innovative. Innovation is good, but if you can
take a feature that someone else has, and do it better than them, that
that is really great. That is why Linux is being noticed. It does things
that other OSs do, and tries (and often succedes) to do them better.

We can compare, feature for feature, and have a good ground for saying
_why_ and _how_ linux is better. It's a lot easier to talk to a boss and
say 'Linux does blahblahblah better, with greater stability/uptime', than
it is to say 'Linux is better because it is not MS or it's open source.'

OTOH, it's not like MS has never taken/bought/stolen/squashed an idea from
anyone else, either...

Dave DeMaagd - demaagd@slashdot.org - www.cs.hope.edu/~demaagd
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