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By robinthakur on 3/13/2008 7:44:24 AM , Rating: 2
You articulate my thoughts perfectly. Even the Apple bashers must admire Apple's achievements with getting Unix into a state where its perceived as easier to use than Windows and prettier. Who would have thought that before OSX?? Out of interest is OSX governed by a GPL license or not?

Linux stands zero chance in America. It feels like an OS built by and for communists :) Seriously...'cloned' apps which attempt to duplicate the functionality of its full-sized, full-priced versions on Windows for free. All called silly names like Gimp and Gnome so you can't even guess what they do. You couldn't make it up. Nobody in the Linux community knows the beginning of good business sense, and if any do, they are derided and howled down as neophytes.

A 7 year old child would be able to give them better leadership and strategic thinking and tell them that they need to unite behind Ubuntu (or whatever's popular this week) and push development into making that non-threatening to the general populace and selling its advantages to software companies more.

For example, a good advantage of the PC gaming scene dying a death, is that people will see games consoles as being used for games and PC's, be it Mac, Windows or linux variant as being used for productivity more, which should suit Linux down to the ground as it generally offers a fairly good browsing experience (unless you need proprietary MS solutions such as SharePoint, so not for the business environment) and for cheapo stuff for the third world like the EEEPc then its perfect if they add better power management. They do need to update Star Office seriously though and try and hide/get rid of the need for the command prompt as much as possible.

