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Linus On The Future Of Microsoft | |
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| Time: 20:15 EST/01:15 GMT | News Source: Slashdot | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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An anonymous reader writes "There's a pretty good interview with Linus over at Good Morning Silicon Valley. The discussion seems focused predominantly on the future of proprietary software and what the tech landscape might look like if Microsoft's market share declines. 'Says Linus: I do not believe that anything can "replace" Microsoft in the market that MS is right now. Instead, what I think happens is that markets mature, and as they mature and become commoditized, the kind of dominant player like MS just doesn't happen any more. You don't have another dominant player coming in and taking its place -- to find a new dominant player you actually have to start looking at a totally different market altogether.'" | ||
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| #1 By 665 (67.185.98.5) at 6/21/2005 8:26:40 PM |
| You can't say "Freedom." |
| #2 By 32132 (206.116.136.250) at 6/21/2005 8:59:53 PM |
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On Slashdot you aren't allowed spell Microsoft without a $ sign or your posting is immediately deleted.
And you have to kiss the butt of your cult leader. Even if he is clueless. |
| #3 By 9589 (65.191.188.246) at 6/22/2005 1:16:51 AM |
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Linus hold forth after the book, MBA 101, falls off a shelf on to his head while visiting the library.
Stay tuned at /. for more nonsense utterances . . . Heck don't wait, just read the threads generated by the "sage" one's article! lol |
| #4 By 12071 (203.217.66.156) at 6/22/2005 7:37:17 AM |
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#5 "Linus' basic mistake was in thinking of the OS as a commodity"
Mistake? Care to explain why you don't seem to think of an OS as a commodity? As far as I am aware every component of an OS could be interchanged - just because Microsoft chooses to not allow you to interchange components - even to the point of bolting them in as deep as they can (think IE) doesn't change that all the components could easily be interchangeable. One of the views that many people held/hold is that the internet could make the OS even more of a commodity than it is - by supplying your clients with thin/smart/etc clients it no longer matters what OS the client uses. Microsoft makes a lot of money of Windows so I can see them holding on as long as possible to the "the OS is not a commodity" thought but there is no reason why you couldn't change the memory management component, or the file system component etc. |
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