[Am-info] Bill Gates show loses its lustre

[Roy Bixler]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:03:54AM -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
> And Linux is NOT the answer.  Replacing Windows with Linux would
> just transfer the stagnation to a different platform.

Linux is a kernel, not an operating system.  There are many different
Linux distributions and many different Linux-based operating systems
serving different markets.  Comparing Linux to Windows is
fundamentally an apples to oranges comparison (or, if you wish, a
kiwis to bananas comparison.)

Even if you modified your statement to say (arbitrarily picking a
particular Linux distribution here) "Replacing Windows with Red Hat
Linux would just transfer the stagnation to a different platform", I'm
still not entirely sure I would agree.  As long as Red Hat stays open
source, I don't see how they could pull the same market manipulation
tricks that Microsoft pulls.

> Heterogeneity and diversity in Operating Systems and Applications are the answers.

With that, I agree wholeheartedly.

R.