Open source, the case of the tail wagging the dog ?
Linus and Linux free loaders desired free meals from newbies hacking codes for free.
The results were disastrous. Many man hours of RedHat and Novel were spent defending their architecture which were hacked, without knowledge of the architecture of Linux operating system(conflicts and missed bindings).
Fortunately, we have now classified Linux into tiny, midi and enterprise operating systems. Tiny being less than 100 mb. You can not do much harm to hack it Although the tendency of using gtk+ toolkits caused some problems. Midi(800 mb) is now unified in browsers and you can pick any desktop window manager. Hacking the desktops are frequent, and versions changed too often, leaving bugs as they are. Popularity suffered, and no one can use them for long. Some claimed they used one for six months. Enterprise operating systems(upto 5 gb for non-commercial ones) sold are very basic, and backward compatible. RHEL and SLES are fundamentally backward, and locked down.
So, where will Linus lead us, astride. In the mean time we have to depend on some one? Microsoft or Apple? Sun Java has hardware problem(reliability of data processed and stored), and emulation software(Java) is too slow. Unix compared with QNX is also too slow.


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