On Apr 15, 2004, at 4:52 AM, Vaughn Treude wrote:


> You guys have made some very good points about the problems involved  
> in FOSS.
>  But I'm not willing to give up, and resign myself to Microsoft's  
> monopoly,
> or Mac's proprietary hardware.   Despite its faults, I'd hate to leave  
> the
> Linux desktop, it's got a lot of good features that outweight the bad.
> Problems are also opportunities.  The difficulty is coming up with a  
> new
> revenue model, because people have to make a living.  I still think  
> that even
> non-free Linux apps are preferable to their equivalent on Windows,  
> because
> the open standards of Linux provide a level playing field.   But yes,  
> I know
> from experience that distributing a binary application in Linux can be  
> quite
> challenging, given the variation in platforms.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that we will *never* see widely  
distributed desktop Linux. I just don't expect it to happen very  
quickly or very dramatically. It will be gradual with places like call  
centers being the first adopters. I think Friedman has it exactly right  
in this article:
<http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/ 
0,289202,sid39_gci959322,00.html>

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