| [ SoGang ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): guest (yuandi) <multinet1.sogan> 날 짜 (Date): 1999년 4월 27일 화요일 오후 02시 59분 06초 제 목(Title): 윈도우와 리눅스에 관한.. 재밌는 기사입니다. 출처는 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/article/0,1051,SAV-99042500 51,00.html 내용은 아래와 같네요.. 윈도우를 옹호하는 사람의 재밌는 생각. ^^ A REBELLIOUS REACTION TO THE LINUX REVOLUTION James Coates April 25, 1999 Today I must cast all caution to the world wide wind and express some of the most unpopular views one can take here on the Binary Beat. Here goes. Gulp! Bill Gates isn't a monster. Not only that, but we're all very, very lucky to have Microsoft in our lives. Furthermore, Microsoft Windows 2000, which made its debut in Chicago at last week's Comdex computer show, is a much more useful personal computer operating system than the dinky feature-weak, application-starved flavor of home-brewed Unix known as Linux. I must take this dangerous stand after watching the teeming hordes of messiah-hungry Linux fans at Comdex. These gloriously anti-establishmentarian crowds swarmed over young Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, whose anti-Microsoft pronouncements started to sound like some kind of call for jihad. "Bill Gates is an arrogant man," Torvalds somewhat self-righteously told Tribune reporter Darnell Little. "World domination and fast," was chanted by Linux loyalists in the McCormick Place hallways. When the lights briefly went out as he spoke, Torvalds suggested, maybe only partially in jest, that Microsoft was responsible. As someone just about twice Torvalds' age and in posession of well less than half his computer programming ability, I've got this to say: Harrumph! Sure da yoot (as the late Mayor Richard J. Daley pronounced youth) are frustrated. They chafe at the fact that most of us are prisoners of the Microsoft model, working in jobs where the Windows desktop has become our home away from home and where our daily bread is earned working in Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and other Microsoft software. It rankles these radical souls that the new Windows 2000 operating system probably consumes 50 million lines of bulky and balky code, bloated top-secret fatware that can crash out of the blue and that only works the way Microsoft wants it to work. Linux, they note, is 2.5 million lines (at most) of highly flexible, free-to-use and free-to-modify software that almost never crashes and that works any way a programmer cares to make it work. Best of all, the open source code that makes up Linux is free of charge compared with the $89 one pays for Windows 98 and the upwards of $300 that a box of office strength Windows 2000 can cost. So Linux is free, crash proof, flexible, lean and the product of a willful young man every bit as technologically adroit and set in his ways as Gates ever was. It's very easy (and pretty accurate as well) to cast Torvalds in the role of a St. George jousting with the dragon of Microsoft. The dragon, of course, is huge. Microsoft operating systems run on perhaps 90 percent of the 400 million PCs now chugging along somewhere on planet Earth. Linux runs on maybe 7 million machines, and in many cases those are machines at places where the majority of stuff is done the Microsoft way and the Linux machines are a minority. I know going in that I'll take more flak for this column than just about any I could write, but I need to tell you that sometimes its OK to root for the dragon. Sometimes St. George can be a pain in the tail that should just go away. Whatever the merits Linux might offer the highly technical specialists who use it to administer Internet servers or use turbo-charged text commands to perform complex file transfers, Linux currently offers mighty slim pickings for ordinary computer users. While Canada's Corel Corp. has ported a version of its WordPerfect software for Linux, the sad reality is that the great bulk of software that people can actually run on Linux is just as home-brewed as is the Linux operating system itself. Meanwhile, billions of human hours have been spent writing the amazing applications that run on the Windows and Macintosh platforms. In fact, the information revolution that has allowed us to prosper right along with Binary Bill was made possible by the empowerment of these applications--everything from Web browsers to e-mail engines, to CD-ROM shoot'em-up games like Doom and Quake, to personal finance packages. The Internet was working swell on traditional Unix, Macintosh and Windows NT before Linux was much more than a glimmer in Linus' eye, and it will work better whether or not the true believers pull off a miracle and slay the dragon. Meanwhile, they would have us reinvent the wheel by wasting billions more hours creating applications to take advantage of Linux and make Torvalds' colleagues at Linux software houses like Red Hat Inc. and Caldera Systems Inc. rich. By demonizing Gates and exploiting the natural human fondness for the underdog, da yoot in da Linux mob are wasting a lot of time that could be better spent making nice with da dragon. 냠.. 나도 윈도우가 좋아. -_-;;; 왜냐곤 묻지 마세요 아는 사람은 다 알고 있음. -_-;; |