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Re: The Crushing Truth: Linux
by Spanner on Thursday 20/Mar/2008, @21:40
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You're not entirely wrong.
The battle for the desktop happened before KDE 1.0 was released. We will never have the same breadth of desktop software (even if much of it is rubbish - I give you BonziBuddy) that Windows does.
It does not matter though. If we have enough good software that most users who chance on KDE are happy, or better, are delighted, we will survive. If we survive, we will win. We don't have to make money to keep going, our goal is to make the best environment there is. We don't have shareholders directing how our desktop works, we have people who use our system every day, who are passionate about it, making the decisions. No adverts, no sales pitch, no nonsense. Our brethren who work with embedded systems every day already use what we create and already outsell Microsoft with it, making a lot of money. Our sisters who write web applications also reuse our work daily in preference to anything else, also making serious money. Our work in combination with our web partners is more popular than Microsoft by a ratio of 4 to 1. We give our work away to anyone who wants it, whether they are poor, sick, or otherwise needy, or rich, able-bodied and greedy. Microsoft doesn't. Your profits are bigger with us leading the way, because we don't charge you an entry fee. We work with more hardware than Microsoft, we are faster and more efficient than Microsoft. We scale from watches to supercomputers. Microsoft doesn't. You can trust your data with us because you can see what our programs do: you can't with Microsoft. Let's not forget what Microsoft did for us - we wouldn't have the personal computer as we know it without them. However, Microsoft was the pinnacle of the last century. We are the future, and increasingly, the now. Get used to it. |
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