A farmer feeds his cattle hay. Hay is hay. There are types of hay, alfalfa, brome, sudan, millet, cane, sorghum, etc. to name a few. A herds health is dependent upon not from feeding the cattle hay, but by feeding the cattle different types of hay. An OS is an OS. Destroying one OS in favor of another does not provide OS diversity.
If (competing OS) is a tree, and people are attacking the branches, and not the roots, some trees will grow back. If you attack the roots and kill the tree, then you might feel you have succeeded.
Linux in it's current state however, is like a tree with roots, but with no branches. A tree will not grow properly if it never has branches. Branches as in software choices. Currently I don't know of a way to put AutoCad (in it's updated form) on Linux. There are many commercial software packages for windows where there is no equivalent for linux.
Cutting down the tree in your back yard on the west side of your house next to the patio window without having another in it's place is like destroying on OS in favor of another.
Leave the OS in front of the patio window, it will die in it's own time. Instead plant another to replace it and concentrate on norishing it and it's relationships with other companies.
Linux needs to quit worrying about "attacking" roots and begin worrying more about why it has no branches.
Just my two cents
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Ok, well linux has branches. Linux needs to worry about the leaves. No leaves leads to a dead tree.
(And yes, I saw the branch argument coming)
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On 1/19/07, Dale Beams drbeams@hotmail.com wrote:
A farmer feeds his cattle hay. Hay is hay. There are types of hay, . . . Linux needs to quit worrying about "attacking" roots and begin worrying more about why it has no branches.
A Zen master was travelling with two of his students. On one leg of the trip, their driver told them that the area they were entering was notorious for attacks by a man-eating lion. When they reached their destination, the master opened one of his bags, took out a pair of running shoes, and put them on. One student asked why he was doing this, to which the master responded: "Don't you remember what the driver said about the lion?" The other student laughed and said: "Do you think that those shoes will give you the speed to surpass that of a lion?".
The master shook his head, and said "No shoes will let me outrun a lion. Fortunately, I don't need to do that. I only have to run faster than the slowest of my companions." With this, the students were enlightened.
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