[geeks] The best things in the world

[Joost van de Griek]

2008/9/12 Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>:

> Joost van de Griek wrote:
>
>> [Red Hat] Linux is the Windows of the OSS world.
>
> There, I fixed that for you...   :)
>
> (Actually, I think it's Gnome and KDE that are at fault, trying to be a
> better Windows than Windows.  Red Hat is trying to be the Microsoft of OSS.)

I think Linux is the Windows of the OSS world, in the sense that its
users seem to think it's the only thing that matters, if not the only
thing in existence. The disregard for standards (and common practices)
that they get away with purely because of market dominance.

.tsooJ