On 18/09/06 01:39 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote: <snip>
Windows, as an OS isn't all that bad. What are its strong points are to be acknowledged and incorporated into GNU/Linux.
Hmmm, let see:
Active Directory as a concept. Still way too complex in Unix. Other than the standards breakage from MS, a good idea.
Applications (particularly those dealing with closed formats -- AutoCAD, Office). Open standards for such things would be nice, but at the moment backwards compatibility would appear to be more important. Requiring that all document formats be properly documented and released to the public for unrestricted distribution would be the nicest thing the government could do.
Hardware support. Broken by lack of manufacturer support, particularly for cheap hardware.
the ms guy started to show me down by saying you un organised geeks don't even know what Information Technology means to people. and u can only develop academic toys for college students who want to know what is an OS like. your system can't offer any thing except a toy box.
Haha....so unguided missiles are toys? routers are toys? Oh not to mention asterisk which is replacing CISCO's heavy duty VoIP boxes are a toy? The OS running 70% of the web's infrastructure are toys? Haha.
Linux does dominate the public webserver market *yay for cheap webhosting). Internal websites tend to be on other operating systems though. Asterisk isn't exactly replacing Cisco in the enterprise market, though Skype is doing things to scare everyone else. Most non toy routers run IOS or JunOS (not that Linux _can't_, it just doesn't have the hardware support). Linux is primarily replacing Unix, but it faces that nasty problem of Windows compatibility.
All that it takes is that Linux users start requiring that Windows users stay compatible with them instead of the other way round. Stop using MS office formats, and you break Microsft's dominance. Don't even bother about IE compatibility, but write standards compliant HTML and CSS. If IE can't handle it, sucks.
If you aren't prepared to pay the price for it, don't complain. FOSS isn't driven by non-paying users (pay in time, money, documentation, support costs for some application(s) or the other).
Put up money for the OS and apps, and require that they be under OSI compliant licenses.
Devdas Bhagat