Windows device development faster, cheaper than Linux? (Register)
Posted Jul 20, 2003 20:44 UTC (Sun) by
dacodecz (guest, #13072)
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Windows device development faster, cheaper than Linux? (Register) by davidl
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Windows device development faster, cheaper than Linux? (Register)
*FROM HALLOWEEN*
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween1.php
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
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*FROM THE REGISTER*
Windows, in all its many and varied forms, is about commoditisation. Microsoft offers tightly defined and controlled platforms together with a wealth of standard tools, Ts & Cs and support packages for developers to work with, so it's fairly cheap and easy to produce products that are pretty similar to other people's products. Microsoft also, from way back in the 80s, has pushed the industrialisation of the development process. The result as far as hardware is concerned has been that differentiation and price have been eroded, and if you want to compete - with, say, Dell and HP - in the commodity handheld computer market you need to keep your team size down and your ambitions modest.
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*FROM ME*
If you want to sell then create desire, if u fail in that then create
FUD for the ignorant, and in last pretend to masquerade with the ignorant
to be their savior, to become there only dictator.
*NICE TRICK FOR THE IGNORANT FROM THE IGNORANT*
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