Comment Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed (Score 1) 857
The shortcomings that Linux suffers are a result of poor design. Poor design of third party devices, software & services. If all the wireless card manufacturers got together and agreed on a interoperable adapter interface to their cards, it would mean that the OS developers would just need to write one other side for ever driver of every wireless card to work.
Everyone is incredulous about how buggy and awful MS systems are, but the truth is, for the most part people don't really care about having the best control over their OS and deciding what applications should be used to do things, or even how much it costs. They want to plug things in and have it go the first time. And while there are sometimes stumbling blocks, and the security is awful, and there are tons of bugs in it, and the box is being used as part of a botnet, for the most part when you plug something into a Windows box, or install new software, it just goes. The average user doesn't care about all that other stuff, even though it makes people like us want to strangle them.
As much as I admire the open source movement, the idea that it's not the OS' fault, it's that hardware and software won't adapt to us, this attitude is one of the major things keeping Linux off most computers. Waiting for manufacturers and software designers to come up with unified standards means waiting for eternity. Linux has to be adapted to the situation as it is, not wait for a magical utopia of easy interoperability, before most users will be able to embrace it.
Everyone is incredulous about how buggy and awful MS systems are, but the truth is, for the most part people don't really care about having the best control over their OS and deciding what applications should be used to do things, or even how much it costs. They want to plug things in and have it go the first time. And while there are sometimes stumbling blocks, and the security is awful, and there are tons of bugs in it, and the box is being used as part of a botnet, for the most part when you plug something into a Windows box, or install new software, it just goes. The average user doesn't care about all that other stuff, even though it makes people like us want to strangle them.
As much as I admire the open source movement, the idea that it's not the OS' fault, it's that hardware and software won't adapt to us, this attitude is one of the major things keeping Linux off most computers. Waiting for manufacturers and software designers to come up with unified standards means waiting for eternity. Linux has to be adapted to the situation as it is, not wait for a magical utopia of easy interoperability, before most users will be able to embrace it.
