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Linux Foundation director takes a swipe at Microsoft
LINUX FOUNDATION executive director Jim Zemlin took a swipe at Microsoft during his keynote speech at Linuxcon in Vancouver, BC yesterday by showing its "blue screen of death".
To address the question, "what would the world look like without Linux?", Zemlin started with a blue screen and then a Windows XP boot screen, then a boot screen again, simulating what the world would be like if it still ran only on Windows. He said, "This is gonna be about 20 minutes."
He added that, seriously, the world would be "black and white, stocks would stop trading, trains would stop running and movie special effects would be terrible," because these are all services and infrastructure that depend upon Linux.
What would the world be like without Linux? For some diehards at The INQUIRER towers, it would be a better place.
For others, however, a world without Linux would be one where they were forced to use Windows or else resort to Apple's Mac OS X or even IBM's abandoned OS/2. Not good.
Zemlin also showed a video contributed by Microsoft for the 20th anniversary, noting that Microsoft is still fearful of and antagonising Linux.
He said it would be very helpful if Microsoft would "stop suing everybody", if it really wants to get along. The subtext here, we think, was that Microsoft can't compete with Linux anymore, so it files lawsuits instead.
The world would also be a worse place without Linux, said Zemlin, because it powers Amazon and Facebook. Another downside would be the small matter of an apocalyptic disaster. "The world might come to an end with unreliable software powering nuclear submarines," he said.
Zemlin talked about some of the resistance that Linux has faced over the years, including Bill Gates' attacks on the GPL and SCO's attempts to take down Linux through litigation. SCO, said Zemlin, did eventually have its day in court. "Bankruptcy court", that is, he noted. µ
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he first deceivingly summs Mac (unix roots, and i vomit hearing word apple or mac) into *nix bunch saying: "...movie special effects would be terrible..." then bashes his own brother... "For others, however, a world without Linux would be one where they were forced to use Windows or else resort to Apple's Mac OS X" ... what a hypocrate .. what a traitor!!!
I think you had better go off, stroke your beard, smoke pot and masturbate, coz you need a life pal.
Lol, he makes it sounds like BSOD is a daily occurrence for all Windows users. I personally have not had one on my personal computers for about 10 years, nor has my wife. I had a mate with a work machine that would occassionally Blue Screen, I had a tinker with it, and apparently it hasn't crashed since about 2006.
It comes down to the user and how it is configured, if Linux can't configure windows properly, perhaps they should consider very carefully the dangers of crossing the road, as both are equally difficult/easy in my opinion.
"Does a watch need and OS? Or a TV? Or a washing machine? Or a bicycle computer?
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You do realize modern versions of those devices do indeed need an OS right?
This is just bullshit.
Linux, Windows and even MacOS are not the only OSes in the world. There are dozens of them. And when someone is developing software for a train or a nuclear submarine, he doesn't just choose linux because it's cool or has a nice penguin. When an OS is being chosen, it's because THESE features are needed with THIS memory and processing overhead, if linux fits we might use it, if it doesn't - we'll chose something else. In fact, many software solutions don't even need an OS. Does a watch need and OS? Or a TV? Or a washing machine? Or a bicycle computer? Maybe they do, but maybe they don't. And it's definitively not just AAAA!!!! LINUXZZZZZ!!!!!!!
In a world without linux other OSes would be used in its place. Maybe even ones that would be better suited for the task, because instead of taking a monster with a sourcecode of 70Mb(and counting) and adding another layer to get what you want from it (for example, realtime), you'd develop an OS designed from the ground up for just that task.
And the people that enjoy working on linux would simply work on another OS, or maybe some other non-OS related projects.
A world without linux would be very similar to the one with it.