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> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>>Open Source's biggest problem is that once software reaches a certain level
>>of "good enough for me" (says the developer), it doesn't progress very
>>fast.
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> Micro$oft's biggest problem is that if software is good-enough to keep
> apathetic, change-fearing users from defecting, it doesn't progress
> very fast.
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> Indeed, I don't believe that they do much of anything that isn't
> designed to maintain and/or extend their desktop monopoly.
He read from the same book as Kinderle.
Rob Enderle: 'I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and
the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said "or
else," the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me'
Rob Enderle: 'I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every
third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel'
Rob Enderle: '..many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents.
Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source'
Rob Enderle: 'Linux is being widely used on the desktop in the third world,
where applications are limited and labor is inexpensive...'
Rob Enderle: 'I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from
terrorist... I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it
was that zealots'
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