Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft

[Sykora]

Just think, after so many years they couldn't come up with a decent application installer.

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft_Scriptable_Install_System

AFAIK, it is the most used project on sourceforge, correct me if I'm wrong.

You might imagine that everybody would jump at the free Linux, but that isn't so. Have you ever thought WHY??

Not everyone is as informed as you are. The more informed are indeed switching to linux, expecially after Ubuntu.

Actually I'm not against Linux but it amuses me when people say such stupid things like Linux will kill windows and that sort.

Actually, I'm not against Windows but it amuses me when people say things like :

...MS will continue to make money due to better products.

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

The most important thing is , that most Open Source software developers work as full-time(or part-time) PAID developers in software firms . thus if there wasn't paid software then these developer's wouldn't be making their living and churning out FOSS .

 

[QwertyManiac]

Gone are the days of Browser Wars, its big time OS Wars now. And soon who knows what, maybe Cabinet color wars. We got to name threads like these, something like the use of LOLOS language.

Microsoft throws blank threats at the OSS community, and you expect them to sit quiet? I'd love to see MS get legally owned by them.

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

i think that's LOLCODE

 

[QwertyManiac]

No, that's for code, I was talking OS. Like you always do these days, obsessed.

 

[mehulved]

The most important thing is , that most Open Source software developers work as full-time(or part-time) PAID developers in software firms . thus if there wasn't paid software then these developer's wouldn't be making their living and churning out FOSS .

Ever saw the reality? Why are big firms ready to pump money into FOSS. I wonder how much you even know of FOSS.

Lolz...they will keep on thinking how to fight MS instead of making better featured products while MS will continue to make money due to better products

It's MS and the monkeyboy who started the circus err i mean attack by accusing linux of patent violation and threatening to sue. Which, BTW, they never do.
So, get your facts straight before you open your trap.
And yeah, someone mentioned better features?

 

[gxsaurav]

Ever saw the reality? Why are big firms ready to pump money into FOSS. I wonder how much you even know of FOSS.

I guess you don't know that the primary reason for any money making company to go open source is to cut developement & research cost. This is the same thing Apple is doing by taking the KHTML engine. KDE Developes it while Apple uses it gives so less back in the form of Webki.

And yeah, someone mentioned better features?

Yup, lods of better features like...multimedia, HD DVD, Blue Ray etc etc etc

 

[eddie]

...HD DVD, Blue Ray etc etc etc

How many have you seen on your Windows Vista PC? Can we have a list?

 

[gxsaurav]

He asked for features, I just listed those.

 

[eddie]

He asked for features, I just listed those.

LOL! Yeah "features". Actually it was my fault. I forgot that there are people in this world who would pay for something that they can't even use. They are features alright...carry on

 

[mehulved]

I guess you don't know that the primary reason for any money making company to go open source is to cut developement & research cost. This is the same thing Apple is doing by taking the KHTML engine. KDE Developes it while Apple uses it gives so less back in the form of Webki.

It's webkit. And anyways yes they save money and get quality products. If not for quality why would they invest money?
I take it you understand what investing money means, as you are a commerce student.

 

[gxsaurav]

t's webkit. And anyways yes they save money and get quality products. If not for quality why would they invest money?
I take it you understand what investing money means, as you are a commerce student.

I hope you understand when I say the primary reason for a company to go open source is to save on development & research cost, cos now the OSS community develops it while the company can easily use it for free.

In its current state, the gecko engine is far better then Webkit, why didn't apple go with that if it is so good in quality? Cos in that case it would have been just a port of firefox, & Apple likes to create its own market & rule there own market.

 

[girish_AMD]

Ubuntu Linux founder says no deal with Microsoft

*investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN18409310

 

[gxsaurav]

So, indirectly he said that he won't work with MS to make Ubuntu more compatible with Windows.

 

[vish786]

we already have one fight going between Windows and Mac

and this another has started.................. Windows and Linux

so Windows is fighting to survive this days

So, indirectly he said that he won't work with MS to make Ubuntu more compatible with Windows.

Microsoft is scared now becoz of ubuntu spreading like fire... that is why they wanted to make a deal with them... which Ubuntu founder Declined.

Wait for few more months and see all the Computer Users (Windows Users) will have Ubuntu Free Cd with them and waiting desperately to install it and have an hand on it. and would have already posted their new addresses for latest release of Ubuntu Distro

World is changing from windows to linux

 

[praka123]

@vish: Psss...be careful bill gates devotee's on dis forum can kill u!

 

[vish786]

@vish: Psss...be careful bill gates devotee's on dis forum can kill u!

oh $hit.... hope those microsoft people dont SUE me... like they did for some other guy.... who was atleast using windows.

 

[amitava82]

So, indirectly he said that he won't work with MS to make Ubuntu more compatible with Windows.

How MS is going to make Ubuntu more compatible with Windows? Like adding Live search as default search engine? I don't see that makes ubuntu any better except a dirty trick to increase M$'s market share. Nice trick buddy..

 

[gxsaurav]

How MS is going to make Ubuntu more compatible with Windows? Like adding Live search as default search engine? I don't see that makes ubuntu any better except a dirty trick to increase M$'s market share. Nice trick buddy..

Like I said in 2nd post, stop whining & start collaborating. These are few things that MS can give Linux

1) NTFS read & write support, more native compared to NTFS 3G, you do know that NTFS 3G is still lacking in few areas

2) DirectShow Video Engine

3) Windows Media Technology

4) DirectX

5) Windows Sideshow engine, so that even Linux can use the Sideshow devices found in laptops

6) Exchange server

7) Ability to sync Windows Mobile PDA's with Linux, better then what it does right now.

8) Windows Live Messenger & other Windows Live services like Live Folders etc right from Linux itself.

Lots more thing, Windows is just full of technologies.

@ Vish

I heard the same thing in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 & now. If Linux is the future, well....then lets meet in the future when it is easy & featureful enough to compete with Windows.

 

[vish786]

@ Vish

I heard the same thing in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 & now. If Linux is the future, well....then lets meet in the future when it is easy & featureful enough to compete with Windows.

who the $hit is bothered about future... and who told u linux is future.... its present.

that is why Microsoft thought of making a deal.