Coalition of vendors to stand up to Microsoft
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday November 26, 2003 @11:16AM
from the don't-toot-your-horns-until-you've-counted-your-chickens dept.
Matthew writes: Doomed software vendors Novell, Sun, and RedHat have declared 2004 to be the “The Year that we again fail to make the Linux Desktop a commercial success”.
A spokesman for Novell had this to say: “After years of repeated false starts, this will be the year when we once again fail to make major market share gains against the Windows platform. Everyone knows that the Windows desktop is the bedrock of Microsoft’s strength, and we’ve committed to going after that market, even though we all know that we’re not going to get anywhere.”
“What’s particularly frustrating is knowing that another formerly doomed company, Apple, was able to make a brilliantly successful desktop operating system out of BSD. If we could just figure out how the hell they did that, we’d have the model we need for Linux. But rather than do any serious work, we’re just going to paste on yet another incompatible window manager, move the shortcuts around again, change some of the icons, and cross our fingers!”
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Shrugs, Apple created a “brilliantly successful desktop” (though how you can describe something with less than 4% market share as “brilliantly succesful” beats me) because they can dictate the platform far more closely than linux vendors can. And by the way though MacOS-X is based heavily on BSD the rendering core of Safari is actually KHTML (the same core used in Konqueror which is part of the “False Start” (your words) desktop KDE…)
Comment by Ben — August 5, 2004 @ 7:46 pm