RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

I'm not sure HOW innovative these would rate on a scale of 1 to 10...  Sure
should-a thought to mention VB (& VBA), since I still have a box of 1.0
around here somewhere.

But point is, it takes a RISK to be out in front-a the market more'n a small
step.  A lot don't pan out.

You haven't seen, and aren't gonna see, a lot of innovation outta companies
(especially big companies, and Linux is BIG BIZ no matter HOW "free" it is),
without profits to cover up for the risks that don't pan out.  Innovation is
a job for a weekend coder, either.

You wanna slew of truly GREAT innovations, some-a which may take many months
or years to develop, and You want the developer to work for free...?  And
the developer can make money selling consulting, education, and support for
the non-existant product...??  And if it doesn't pan out...???  Oh, then the
developer can go on the lecture-circuit...?

Guess I ain't quite seeing how this would work, but I see why it hasn't so
far.

| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Richter
| Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:53 PM
| To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
| Subject: RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of alan
| Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:02 PM
| To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
| Subject: Re: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
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| >Microsoft is the ultimate successful model of
| >pay-for-software. Innovation is anathema to them. GPL is the
| >opposite of "monopoly" because it "monopoly" means control
| >of a market. M$ wants to control the market.
|
| Alan,
|
| Was Visual Basic innovative?  What about the Win32 api, unicode built into
| the OS, COM as a way for applications to expose their interfaces, the
| ability to automate excel and word using COM.  Network neighborhood, long
| file names, MSDN, FrontPage as a way for end users to build web
| pages.  And
| now there is .NET and XML as a native data source/sink.
|
| Microsoft succeeds because it reinvests its profits and
| continually improves
| its products.
|
| JT has made a good point here.  What innovation has come out of the open
| source movement? Linux is a copy of Unix, Java was started by SUN and the
| browser was created by a for profit company ( and tightly integrated with
| the PC OS, as it should be, by MS ).
|
| Steve
|
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