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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1151)	2/28/1999 9:04:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Well no. What do you mean by proprietary? If you think that Xfree86 and X in general or GNOME or Berlin is so far a solution then I would like to know a solution to what? Hard drives that need filling? 600 megs of code in C with no printer drivers is not a desktop. That is somebody's code 3000 project. (What can we possibly write that will do just about anything except what a user truly needs?) By the time you write 1,000,000 lines of code it is proprietary. Nobody can modify it or find hooks into it. If you have the API and its open and not depending on "secret stuff" like Windows then sure its usable. If someone wants to modify your code he can get a license. You don't have to be stingy about it, but 100,000 man hours of 7 year eductated engineering usually wants pay. The issue with MS is their attitude to people who want to write for windows.. anything but extreme vertical market code. General coders are verboten, like Dr. Dos, etc.. It's not that their code is that bad.. it is fair, but tool poor... they do not cater to power users at all. You want power? pay the big bucks.. and then they don't support. I bought QBX professional one year and the following year it was not supported and on top of that the database was limited to 128 megs and it did not do networks. Breathtaking bullshit. Great stuff with all kinds of roadblocks. Kind of like a beautiful deserted city. You can till charge for code and do it right. You can open the API and cater to people who want to use the code for real programming and real system usage. That will always require consultation. But I stand by my assertion. Linux does not have desktop. It has no drivers for output to hardcopy worth mentioning. Its windowing interface is not 21st century and the programming world knows it. EC<:-}