[KLUG Members] Lindows backs down + I told you so

[Rusty Yonkers]

> their sneak preview I decided not to.  I also read that it runs as
> root.  It
> seems like a step backwards in OS evolution (the newer versions of
> windows at
> least give you an administrator and regular user accounts).

Yeah but just try to run a workstation with less than administrator
privledges, what a joke....

> 
> I'd rather see companies developing software for Linux or working
> to integrate
> Linux into existing systems 

This won't happen enmass for games, educational software, and other
products unless there can be a finacial payoff (look at what happened
to Loki).  If a person needs to make a living from the programming
then there needs to be a financial reward.  I think free is really
nice (I am dutch after all) but I do not have a problem paying a
modest fee (to many software packages are WAY over priced) for a
program that I like.  I love crossover and paid the $30.00 for it.  

> Just
> because Windows is popular doesn't make it better and it certainly
> doesn't make
> it a standard.

Actually in some respects being popular does make you the defacto
standard!!

> ps - for $99 I can get a copy of VMWare and run a both at once so
> why would I
> invest in a kludgy hybrid?

Not everyone is savvy enough to run VMware... and you still have to
cough up the $99 for Win 98 or the $199 for Windows 2000 Pro!!


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