Is Linux For Losers? (Forbes)

Is Linux For Losers? (Forbes)

Posted Jun 18, 2005 15:40 UTC (Sat) by salvarsan (subscriber, #18257)
In reply to: Is Linux For Losers? (Forbes) by oshogg
Parent article: Is Linux For Losers? (Forbes)

Oshogg wrote:

The point is that noone cares about an idealistic view of security, cleanliness of code etc. as long as it is "good enough". As long as the OS is above this "good enough" level, the relative difference of "goodness" of different OSes is a much minor issue compared to other considerations (such as wide variety of hardware support, other features for example).

Agreed. Technical merit is not the same as delivery of services.

If linux is for losers, then I suspect that Forbes magazine just insulted their demographic, i.e., the 50+% of financial institutions (NYSE and Morgan Stanley among them) that use Linux on their server side.

That said, OpenBSD has some refreshingly clean and obvious kernel code. I'd like to know if De Raadt has a coding style guide out there for the "rest of us".

-drh

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