[ILUG] Linux Myths. The truth can be told!

[John_White at dell.com]

<rant>
	Something that MS has to understand (that nobody in the debate seems
to have raised yet) is that you cannot have a homogenous environment if your
culture is to evolve, evoloution needs diversity. If you remove the
diversity you slow your evolution and stagnate your future. In an all MS (or
indeed all linux / unix) environment, nobody learns or stumbles upon
anything new, nobody borrows anything from other cultures and nobody thinks
sideways. Nobody gets better. Nobody makes any significant advances. If the
network culture is to evolve we need more diversity, even more so than just
MS Vs Linux. This statement (NT Vs Linux) more than anything else
illustrates the need for a broader range of OS's - already for many people
it has come down to just MS & Linux (but thankfully, not necessarily for
all). We need more BeOS, a new VMS that runs on other platforms, more HURD,
more OS/2, more systems that don't even resemble those I've mentioned. Only
when we have an unimaginable range of OS's to choose from (evenly
distributed throughout the network) will the network culture offer it's true
potential. Only then can it evolve on it's own.

Not is it better ? . . . . . is it different ?
I can only learn so much from "better".

</rant>

(Thanks for listening)
John.


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