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stmok

Member

From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 72

What do you think of my article?

I've recently written a blog entry at the TuxMachines website.

Year of the Linux desktop? Who cares!
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/13138

I would like your feedback. Pretty please.

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jb

Member

From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: What do you think of my article?

Just thought I'd make the counter-arguement.

Maybe it was just how I read it, but it seems to dismiss the non-contributing userbase as irrelevant, suggesting the average user learn how to program.  Just having sheer numbers of users is very important; that's what gets better vendor support, software and hardware alike.  A company will feel more pressured to support a platform with 40% of the computing population than the platform with 3%.  Increased vendor support reads as a better investment to companies, banks, and government agencies since it's being taken seriously by a significant portion of the industry, which will expand the userbase even further. 

I stress the importance of corporate backing because say if tomorrow, linux lost all of its corporate backing; development would come to a crawl compared to its current momentum, and HP won't be there to donate powerful servers for the next kernel.org server upgrade. 

Having a "Year of the Desktop Linux" would bring that surge of users, and that's why it is important.

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brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: What do you think of my article?

I've recently written a blog entry at the TuxMachines website.

Year of the Linux desktop? Who cares!
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/13138

I would like your feedback. Pretty please.

I started reading it and read about half of it. Then I stopped. I won't read it to the end or discuss it, as it only leads to trivial discussions.

Zoranthus

Member

From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: What do you think of my article?

I think there are quite some greate developers-to-be that joined the light side because of some buzzyword like "ZOMG LINUX DESTOPZ OF TEH YEARR!1". Media presence is everything.

Last edited by Zoranthus (2007-02-07 10:19:43)

chaosgeisterchen

Member

From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: What do you think of my article?

I aggree with the opinion, that it's way better to do something than to complain about it.

Being productve is the best thing you can do for open source. It would not work without voluntary productivity.

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-02-07 12:24:53)

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