![]() You know where he’s coming from whereas, I suspect that Gates and Jobs would come at you from the shadows. I actually would prefer to deal with Torvalds than Gates or Jobs, because at least Torvalds speaks his mind. You may not agree with what LT says about this or anything else, but he’s just as entitled to his views, however eccentric they may seem, as you are. If you don’t like what Linus Torvalds says, then don’t read him, don’t pay attention. Cult rumors most often refer to artistic and fashion movements of passing interest, but persistent rumors may escalate popular concern about relatively small and recently founded religious movements, or non-religious groups, perceived to engage in excessive member control or exploitation.” For this reason, most, if not all, non-fan groups that are called cults reject this label.Ī group’s populist cult status begins as rumors of its novel belief system, its great devotions, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful or beneficial effects on members, or its perceived opposition to the interests of mainstream cultures and governments. ![]() In common or populist usage, “cult” has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups. “Cult typically refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers outside the mainstream, with a notably positive or negative popular perception. That kind of slavish devotion is clearly on view, and it’s disturbing, cult-like behavior, in my opinion. To some degree, every OS has its disciples (or “true believers”, if you will), who treat a particular personality (Gates, Jobs, Torvalds, etc) as some kind of Messiah. Linux is not a cult and whoever wrote that betrays immaturity. Stuff like eeePC is pushing the cost of hardware down so far only freely available tools are cheap enough. It was necessary, but hardware sales was the point. In the old days, software was part of what made the computer “go”. Software like windows or linux is cheap (lots of labor but little capital cost), and OS has almost no value, unless you are Apple and use it as a marketing tool for your Hardware. IBM big iron servers are even more expensive to make. ![]() That several million dollars of sunk cost in machinery to make 1 unit. Think of how much harder Red Hat or IBM works for their money on support contracts making software something useful versus Microsoft that sells shiny discs to OEMs with almost no support or performance guaranteed. it doesn’t make me a car mechanic or plumber though… those jobs are very much still needed and people still pay even though they could replace the parts on their own. Again, I can buy all the parts to fix my car or plumbing at the discount store for cheap. Support is about fixing things… correctly. ![]() those who make songs are a dime a dozen and easily replaced, those who have connections to who owns the CD presses make a mint…for now.ī. Think of the record industry and who makes money. means that you are not really important if you don’t MAKE hardware. This would hurt most (if not all) COTS vendors and micro ISVs.ī) Do you think that those FLOSS companies who depend on support services as their revenue stream are going to make their apps easy to use so that you didn’t need support to begin with? Probably not.Ī. While FLOSS benefits from commercial success, it goes on irrespectively, particularly because its revenue stream is primarily tied to support services instead of licenses.Ī) Those who don’t have support or hardware to sell probably can’t make money with FLOSS, unless they’re gonna sell t-shirts or something.
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