How to Conquer the World for Linux 16817

Linux is a generic form of unix that runs on the Intel processors and is administered similarly to branded unix on a RISC machine, AFAIAC.

It isn't so terrible as you suggest, I think, but it is not particularly suited to home user use on personal machines. Everyone who actually has some touch on that pretty much knows that to be the case and it is not very likely that anything significant will occur on the desktop. OSS itself, I think, is useful if only to sort of help commoditize the old stuff and keep the software vendors hopping from place to place and bringing out new stuff with just a little more progress and a little more convenient.

Look at the progress of things like multimedia files over the past 10 years. They have moved from huge WAV formats to more and more compact forms with better and better fidelity. You get a lot of video along with the audio now in a very small file. You can pretty much get it all for free, too, even the latest stuff from the commercial suppliers. That has a lot to do with OSS and with Microsoft's buttimilations. If a company wants to make money for a long period of time with a new product, they have to keep hustling since MS will soon give it away with Windows and the OSS bunch will clone it for sure.