Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:57:41 -0800 (PST) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: If Linux is to succeed |
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On 24 Jan 1997, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> In article <9701231427.ZM8441@platypus>, > Jason Benderly <jbenderl@PaineWebber.COM> wrote: > >Sorry for the waste of bandwidth but the subject is > >the most important one facing Linux, and it has been > >mentioned on the list. > > I second the motion to have a separate list for Linux advocacy > ("linux-future");
Count me in, too. Lots of people, myself included, occasionally want to discuss 'where Linux is/will/should be going' type topics, and they do have a place, but that place is not linux-kernel. Linux-kernel is huge enough just with the appropriate technical discussions |->.
> Adobe, Sun, and HP get most of their business from large customers; > they don't really have the infrastructure for dealing with millions of > individual users. > > Quote from my boss: "What the hell is taking [the WINE project] so long? > Can they solve their problems if we just gave them money? We have to pay > for dozens of Win95 licenses *anyway* so it's not like it makes a > difference to us to give the money to someone else."
If people like your boss would kick in a programmer or two every time they saw a feature or app that they wished Linux had, Linux would be able to do everything in existence in about a year |->. I think that the idea of running an OS that can easily be extended to support *whatever* oddball protocol/device/interface/whatever would be very appealing to a lot of IS types if they knew about it. Jon
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