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From: Arthur Tang	4/30/2007 4:59:19 AM
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An explanation of why Linux is not a monetary success? Linux is modified at anytime(the next minute) by an open community of amateurs, sometimes without going thru maintainers for official inclusions to Linux software projects. Then, Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds himself can not get Gnome to accept their personal codes for inclusion. Politics are very acute in Debian organization, where founder Ian Murdock was ousted many years ago. Intel Dotstation was a total failure using Linux operating system. Lack of stability of codes(constant changes) made Linux difficult to be used. Strong administrator has to lock down simple RedHat v7.2(5 years old, obsoleted many years ago by RedHat) still used in most IT departments. Many people eventually gave up on the Linux distros; because constant technology update did not fix old bugs. Hoping software with old bugs will be abadoned by users. A moving target can not have monetary success, unless it is stable for at least 5 years($40 billion Microsoft model). Solaris($12 billion busienss) too? Sunw management has to follow AT&T(unix) success in data transfer technology($80 billion business packets), not small monolithical Linux(no microkernels) business failures(Intel Dotstation appliance)?

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