Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet) [LWN.net]

Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet)

Posted Sep 14, 2004 18:27 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet)

" Large organisations tell us they want a well-integrated and supported product,... "

Wonder if any large organisation ever told anyone that they wanted to use a Desktop OS that goes down every 30 minutes, and that is the most susceptible possible to "outside" hacking (i.e. no security measures what so ever)!?... like the win9x!?...

Yes, it could be considered a gross illustracion above, no intention to offend nobody, though... i just wanted to illustrate that what is missing is a Standard Desktop Open Source view,... and inspite freedesktop and other iniciatives, if different commercial pushes or flavors dont come from a commun *view* they are only contibuting to the defeat of all...

All this as little to do with if the a distribution is streamlined or not,... its the details behind marketing buzzwords that are of the most importance,...

So why can't Open Source just agree *BEYOND THE PAPER* on a Standard, like in the Microsoft world ?...because it voids the use of commercial buzzwords to advance users?... geez,... in Microsoft world, Microsoft internal design teams decide and they already got a standard, no really mattering what else, inspite those design teams are under the marketing one.

In Open Source "we" have standard bases, fredesktop iniciatives, etc etc,... that are supposely technical merit based different approaches waiting for general adoption to became a standard !!?... and are always pushed around by marketing offerings that in order to diffenrentiate themselfs, the last thing that they want is to be in a general view,... so standard bases never get to have general adoption!!?...

Cant "we" get out of this movie please... Open Source business model is supposed to be around services, remenber ?

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