From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262910AbTJ3W3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:29:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262913AbTJ3W3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:29:13 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:54997 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262910AbTJ3W3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:29:10 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:29:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> <20031029224230.GA32463@codepoet.org> <3FA0475E.2070907@namesys.com> <1067466349.3077.274.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> <20031030002005.GC3094@digitasaru.net> <16288.24913.844699.956689@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <20031030013418.GD3094@digitasaru.net> <20031030212812.GA698@ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CLQiDYW1guCPH7H24MF67tEyP3c= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu writes: > Unfortunatly, we probably dont really have a choice. MS has enough market > share that we must emulate not only their good, but even their bad ideas > if we want Linux to be used by people other than those who develop it. Well, do we, necessarily? Is the goal with Linux to get as many users as possible, or to create the best OS possible? I was hoping for the latter. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se