Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:23:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Finally, who says that acceptance by 'IT managers and CTOs' is actually a > measure of 'quality' that anyone here finds interesting or acceptable? The > very fact that many 'IT managers and CTOs' find NT acceptable speaks > volumes to counter the credibility of that as a useful product metric.
If you'd read what I wrote in it's entirety, you'd know that I'm very well aware of this perspective. I don't need to have the volumes of idiocy which come out of some management pointed out to me. At the same time my entire point was that I think there's some valid business concerns that they have /after/ removing all the crap, and that I wouldn't be surprised if the market went against linux and in favor of other operating systems that addressed them.
And if you think I don't understand what Linux wrote you are very wrong. Perhaps to put a better spin on things what I should state is that I understand what Linus is trying to do, and I'm merely pointing out that he's really not filling the gap of supplying an IT-friendly open source OS. He's providing an OS for developers. Cool. Fine. No worries. But that does leave a void, in my opinion. Perhaps disributions adding patches to the kernel will fill this void, but I tend to think it wont scale in the end. We'll either see forking, see another OS like FreeBSD fill the void, or (worst case) Solaris.
I don't know why this viewpoint creates such hostile responses from some people. I'm pointing out that Linux is not everything for everyone. Heresy.
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