SERIOUSLY, MY LINUX COMPOOTER DOES
1. GRAFIKS,
2. SOUND,
3. MUSIC,
4. WORD PROCESSES,
5. SPREADSHEETS,
6. GIFS,
7. CAD,
8. BROWSES,
9. POINTY-CLICKY
10. PDF FILES,
11. READS WORD FILES,
12. EXCEL FILES,
13. READS MICROSOFT FILE STRUCTURE,
14. LOOKS AT OTHER MICROSOFT COMPUTERS ON THE NETWORK AND WILL DISPLAY THEIR FILE STRUCTURE GRAPHICALLY
15. WILL RUN SOME MICROSOFT PROGRAMS.
16. WILL ACT AS AN EFFICIENT INTRANET OR INTERNET SERVER WITH FIREWALL.
17. 80% OF MICROSOFT'S NEW FEATURES SINCE 1998 COPY ALL LINUX'S NETWORK FEATURES, THOUGH NOT AS WELL. MS IS STILL IS NOT AS RELIABLE AS A SERVER.
18. DISPLAYS THE GRAPHICAL OPERATING SYSTEM IN ANY LANGUAGE.. CATALAN, JAPANESE. (KDE)
19. INSTALLS THE OS MORE EASILY AND TROUBLE FREE THAN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, REALLY..
AND IT'S 35 DOLLARS FOR FOUR CD'S, NO ROYALTY AND I CAN COPY IT AS MANY TIMES AS I WANT. IT HAS 100,000 FREE PROGRAMS ON THE DISK AND HAS 1000 SCREENSAVERS. AND I CAN GIVE AWAY TO ANYONE I WANT.
IF THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT OF LINUX WAS SERIOUSLY IMPROVED FOR THEIR GRAPHICAL INTERFACE TO ELIMINATE ANY INTERPROGRAM CONFLICT AND MAKE IT MUCH EASIER TO PORT WINDOWS PROGRAMS, ALLOW RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH EASY WINDOW CREATION TOOLS, AND THE BANDWIDTH OF X-WINDOWS WAS DECREASED, THEN THE LINUX ENVIRONMENT FOR APPLICATIONS WOULD BE SUPERIOR.
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THIS TOOL WOULD HAVE A SERIOUS COMMERCIAL USABILITY AND THE MARKET PENETRATION, RETAIL AND BUSINESS, WOULD BE NUMBERED IN THE TEN MILLION UNITS WORLD WIDE. WE ARE TALKING 2 BILLION IN SALES. THIS IS DOABLE FOR PERHAPS 20 MILLION DOLLARS. THE MARKET IS UNDENIABLY THERE.
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Don't ask me where IBM is sinking 3 billion into Linux, I have no idea. probably porting its existing code to Linux. They are supposed to be making available free code for Linux too. I have seen evidence of it, but I guess it's "out there".
CAN IT BE DONE ON A "FREE" SYSTEM?
Yes, I think so. Customers would pay for the increased ease of use, the documentation, the ability to create programs with ease in the base windowing language, the increased speed and GUI reliability.
It can be done to build a non-free tool on top of a free tool. This is legal in Linux, too. I know I would pay for it in a heartbeat.
Why not have an operating system that also allowed development within that same system?
Shouldn't languages be bundled with the OS? They are in Linux, but they do not have good confusion-free access to the root windowing environment.
GTK is ok, but there is no RAD environment. (Visual programming language, except Borland's Kylix and an expensive Fortran) I know, what do you expect for free? Well how about not free?
There is bad code bloat in X-Windows at the root "machine language level" It takes 1200 commands in X-windows to create a window. This could be reduced to 4 commands with the right paradigm. Porting speed of existing applications would speed up by a factor of ten. Once Linux became a target vector for application development the popularity of the system would skyrocket.
No longer a server/browsing system, it would become a desktop tool for what you want to do in publishing, CAD, accounting and other business. Develop your own programs by drag and drop as a user. Make text based programs into graphical programs as a user, not programmer. Beyond Visual Basic to something usable routinely. The possibilities as Bill Gates says, would be where you wanted to go, only yesterday.
Linux could become THE system people want to develop APPS in, because it would easier than Windows to get a REAL app running and it would run better.. making the selection of an OS to run it on a no-brainer. The application in the real world is the real expense. The hardware and OS these days is the cheap part. Autocad costs 6,000 dollars. The computer and OS it runs on costs maybe 1500.
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