Ubuntu Conference: The LaunchPad workshop

Posted Dec 16, 2004 14:08 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

I don't know how closed source could be the solution, but I do know I was
reading the article until that point, but one I read it'd be closed
source, I barely skimmed the rest, and will probably take a pass on or
only fast-skim any additional articles I see on them.

If I wanted closed source, it would have been far easier to stay with
MSWormOS. I'm a Linux user in part because I didn't find that acceptable
then, to the point of dumping a decade of experience on the platform to
switch, so there's simply /no/ /way/ I'm going to accept anything closed
source now.

I expect there are a lot of folks with similar feelings. After all, MS is
still the 900 lb gorilla on the desktop, and there's Sun and others
available for high end servers as well, if people are willing to take
proprietary. That's still far easier than going open source, in many
ways, so I have a feeling there's a good reason many open source folks are
in the community and /not/ in the proprietaryware world, and it's /not/ so
they can go be in the proprietaryware world ANYWAY!

Duncan