[ale] Ernie Ball says F.Y. to Microsoft

[Irv Mullins]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:33 pm, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed

Interesting. Also note how he accurately points to the greatest factor that is 
preventing Linux from gaining wider acceptance:

"But the developers need to start writing the real-world applications people 
need to run a business...engineering, art and design tools, that kind of 
stuff...They're all trying to build servers that already exist and do a whole 
bunch of stuff that's already out there...I think there's a lot of room to 
not just create an alternative to Microsoft but really take the next step and 
do something new. "

Then take a look thru freshmeat and tell me he's wrong.

In the past two great expansions of computing: the intro of the IBM PC 
and DOS, and then again with the intro of Windows, individuals and 
groups of programmers have stepped in to supply the need for 
"real world" applications. The best of these have been run out of 
business, often by Microsoft introducing a buggy but  "free" app that 
more or less does the same thing. 

With this latest expansion (adoption of Linux into the business world),
where it seems unlikely that Microsoft will be able to control the market, 
programmers should be more anxious than ever to produce useful 
software - yet it isn't happening very fast. 

Irv

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