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Re: [LUG] Article comparing Linux and Windows

 

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 19:12 +0100, Roland Tarver wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:31:56 +0100
> > Roland Tarver wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Neil Winchurst
> >> <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I came across this today. Thought it might interest some lug
> >> > members.
> >> >
> >> > http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
> >> >
> >> > Neil
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> It is good. Use it for new folks quite a bit. :-)
> >>
> >> In fact, a link to it is on the lug site...
> >>
> >> http://www.dcglug.org.uk/node/95
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >> roly
> >
> > Perhaps I should spend more time on the DCGLUG website itself... that
> > site was new to me!
> >
> > Grant.
> 
> haha If you (or anyone else?) has any useful links please add them! lol ;-)
> 
> Best wishes
> roly :-)
> 
The most poinient paragraphs for me in the Article were 
<snip>
Linux is not interested in market share. Linux does not have customers.
Linux does not have shareholders, or a responsibility to the bottom
line. Linux was not created to make money. Linux does not have the goal
of being the most popular and widespread OS on the planet.

All the Linux community wants is to create a really good,
fully-featured, free operating system. If that results in Linux becoming
a hugely popular OS, then that's great. If that results in Linux having
the most intuitive, user-friendly interface ever created, then that's
great. If that results in Linux becoming the basis of a multi-billion
dollar industry, then that's great.

It's great, but it's not the point. The point is to make Linux the best
OS that the community is capable of making. Not for other people: For
itself. The oh-so-common threats of "Linux will never take over the
desktop unless it does such-and-such" are simply irrelevant: The Linux
community isn't trying to take over the desktop. They really don't care
if it gets good enough to make it onto your desktop, so long as it stays
good enough to remain on theirs. The highly-vocal MS-haters, pro-Linux
zealots, and money-making FOSS purveyors might be loud, but they're
still minorities.

That's what the Linux community wants: an OS that can be installed by
whoever really wants it. So if you're considering switching to Linux,
first ask yourself what you really want.

</snip>

Sums it up nicely.
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