Open-source firms seek safety in numbers

[Nathan Bahn]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

> On Monday, December 27, 2010 02:11 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
>
> > In the past 10 years since the year 2000, Linux has evolved very
> > rapidly.  And, its not just Linux but many other OSS projects, and
> > that evolution is speeding up.  Microsoft cannot keep up with that
> > pace.  It took them nearly 10 years to develop another operating
> > system, and it was a flop.  They took a few more years to revamp it
> > and fix its problems, and finally got it right.  Many Linux distros
> > evolve at different rates, but mostly they change dramatically every
> > year, and in some cases every 6 months.  As I said, Microsoft cannot
> > keep up with that pace, their corporate culture and bureaucracy isn't
> > geared for it.  Google, as huge as they are, has a corporate culture
> > that is geared for allowing rapid innovation, and they worked hard to
> > maintain that swiftness and not become a low lumbering beast like
> > Microsoft is now.
> >
>
> OSS speeding up? What, the flop that is GNOME? And how long did it take
> for the Linux kernel to get a proper fsync/fsyncdata implementation? Oh
> wait, these are big projects, with millions of lines of code. They even
> have politics! Just like corporate entities! Wow!
>
> Sorry, both commercial and open source suffer from the same problems.
> The difference being mostly 1) cost to you, 2) server share 3) developer
> mindshare and 4) desktop share where the last two are intertwined and
> presents a chicken and egg problem. Quality varies on both sides and I,
> therefore, have chosen to discount that in the list of differences.
>
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C.C.--

So, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the sole
difference between any Linux flavor and Windows 7 is cost.  Is my
understanding correct?  I'm hoping that it isn't.....
:/

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