[dba-Tech] The latest Debian

On 2013-05-12 2:25 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Shamil and Gustav:
>
> Taking this discussion from the other side, one big question remains.
>
> Given that Linux was created with virtually no money and its various
> components are designed on very limited budgets, lots of volunteers, in some
> cases, working out of their basements, in their spare time, funded from
> donations or from tax incentives given out by other large companies which
> makes any money source, very tentative at best. It has not been until very
> recently that there is some stable money sources for Linux development.
>
> OTOH, given that Microsoft has a budget that is steady and in the billions.
> They can buy the very best developers, systems managers and sales staff
> (which in the case of Linux is non-existant).
>
> Therefore, comparing the two development environments it would be logical
> that Microsoft would be able to build a product superior in every way to
> Linux...but the opposite is true.
>
> On comparison, does this suggest that a corporate entity can not produce a
> good product? Not at all, think of Oracle. It's prices are expensive but
> they have designed some of the best databases in the market. They a fast
> reliable, secure, innovative and the products run on all the major
> platforms.
>
> Companies do not mind paying a good price for a product but they expect
> quality. Linux (and its related products) has set the bar and in twenty
> years Microsoft is now scrambling to keep up and the performance gap keeps
> getting wider.
>
> My question is, why is this so?

How do you like Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" as an 
answer to that question?

PB

-----

> That rant/posting, though questionable may
> have given some insight in to the core reasons. Does anyone have a better
> suggestion as to the causes and subsequent results?
>
> I am willing to listen to any suggestion as no one is more frustrated than I
> have been, in the last few years, with Microsoft.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
> Shamil
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:20 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest Debian
>
> Hi Gustav --
>
> Yes, that article looks like a fake one or authored by a "psycho" with their
> superEGO bloated in the first part of the article and lost all their vapor
> in the second part. Taking such article into account doesn't look worthwhile
> from here...
>
> And all that conspirology, Kremlinoligy as they say, looks rather stupid.
>
> Linux is a good OS, no doubt, and it doesn't need such articles to be used
> to prove its "superiority" over MS Windows, IMO.
>
> Thank you.
> -- Shamil
>
> P.S. Typed on WinPhone from the garden house located in NW Russia - doing
> some groundwork here :)
> Воскресенье, 12 мая 2013, 10:30 +02:00 от "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>> Hi Shamil
>>
>> I don't think so. Neither did Jim, so it seems, as that appended note is
> the
>> interesting part - written when the fellow had given the original blurb a
>> second thought.
>>
>> I don't get why some are so clever on behalf of Microsoft and its
> management
>> and are convinced, that MS is nothing but a bunch of idiots. In no
>> organisation anything is perfect, neither at MS, but when I think about
> it,
>> all the speakers and instructors I've met at MS developer events have been
>> people I would have a good time working with. More or less, of course, but
> I
>> don't believe they left all the bad guys back home at MS.
>>
>> /gustav
>>
>
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