- Nov 4, 1999
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Well last sunday I tried it again. This episode lasted the shortest length of time: 4hrs.
Why you say?
Was it because I could not get my NIC to work?
Was it because I could not get any modules loaded?
Was it because I could not even compile a driver?
even though all those happened, it was not the reason.
The situation worsened to the fact I had to get an ICS type machine up and running ASAP because my old ICS box died during my time with linux. So I dropped linux on that second and installed win2k.
So afterwards I had divine inspiration on why linux will never be a mainstream OS:
Since it is open source and anyone is allowed to change it, there is no accountability for problems arrising, (oh your modem does not work now, sorry, I tried...)
The best that could ever happen to linux is for red hat, or other distributers to have a set of drivers they have thoroughly tested, offer it in precompiled form as WORKING, support those drivers, support the user, but allow them to download the source and improve on it if they want to (open lisence thingy Linus had made) but don't support anything not gotten directly from them. Tech support is a wonderous thing, and while I could beg LD, TF, or Hawkeye for help on the irc channel, that is not the same as a professional who gets PAID to solve things.
I am reminded of the altair and how there was a community of 110% geeks who made programs and shared them out. Linux is nothing more htan an iteration of that, and remember what ended up having... B.G. started up his biz making a program he got paid for supporting for the Altair. Betaware and shareware can never compete with buyable programs because the coders and developers will always be doing this as a hobby. While this can be a good thing, I mean, how much effort do you really put into work: the min. to get by is what most do. But, hobbies are not something you can live off of.
I hope Linux improves, I hope it gets snagged up by a company and gets support like every other program out there.
Why you say?
Was it because I could not get my NIC to work?
Was it because I could not get any modules loaded?
Was it because I could not even compile a driver?
even though all those happened, it was not the reason.
The situation worsened to the fact I had to get an ICS type machine up and running ASAP because my old ICS box died during my time with linux. So I dropped linux on that second and installed win2k.
So afterwards I had divine inspiration on why linux will never be a mainstream OS:
Since it is open source and anyone is allowed to change it, there is no accountability for problems arrising, (oh your modem does not work now, sorry, I tried...)
The best that could ever happen to linux is for red hat, or other distributers to have a set of drivers they have thoroughly tested, offer it in precompiled form as WORKING, support those drivers, support the user, but allow them to download the source and improve on it if they want to (open lisence thingy Linus had made) but don't support anything not gotten directly from them. Tech support is a wonderous thing, and while I could beg LD, TF, or Hawkeye for help on the irc channel, that is not the same as a professional who gets PAID to solve things.
I am reminded of the altair and how there was a community of 110% geeks who made programs and shared them out. Linux is nothing more htan an iteration of that, and remember what ended up having... B.G. started up his biz making a program he got paid for supporting for the Altair. Betaware and shareware can never compete with buyable programs because the coders and developers will always be doing this as a hobby. While this can be a good thing, I mean, how much effort do you really put into work: the min. to get by is what most do. But, hobbies are not something you can live off of.
I hope Linux improves, I hope it gets snagged up by a company and gets support like every other program out there.