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The Holy Trinity: Linus, Steve, and Bill (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) * Thanks to Scribbler for the subtitle. It’s up to you (the visitor) to decide who’s Good and who’s Bad.    (51 votes) |
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More like the Good, the bad and the ugly.
My opinion is, that since win95, the op system IS the Trojan.
And I bet you, Nick’s missed something. (Groan)
I’m not sure which is the more arrogant – Jobs or Gates. I’ve never met Linus Torvalds so I can’t say anything about him. Microsoft is like herpes – it’s a virus you learn to live with.
Torvalds is a character, to all reports. Also opinionated. He not terribly long ago observed in regards to GNOME, “In an effort to keep it simple to use, they have made it so that it simply cannot be used.” He’s also the same person who, when asked how much someone should charge for Linux, answered, “Whatever people are willing to pay.”
Making fun of the Church is a sure way to get to hell…
Not really, but you forgot the “I’m going to Hell” tag.
Steve Jobs will tell you how to use his products. He’ll tell you what’s hot, and what’s not, and what you need, and what you don’t. And if you don’t use his products, you’re not innovative, and cool, and you don’t deserve his products. He’ll even get angry when you question his decisions, because after all, who could know more about how You want to use his products, than Steve Jobs? You don’t know what you want; you’re confused. Let Steve think for you. Oh, and buy this thing here. It’s new, and it’s the best, and you need it.
Bill Gates will make sure you have to use his products. His products will often be the only products, even if they’re not the best product. When there are better products, his products will be more numerous, and since everyone else will have to use his products, too, you’ll be stuck with them. If you try to break away from his products, you’ll forever be the Lone Sheep having to do everything differently, at extra time and expense to yourself. Stay in the herd; it’s safer in the herd. You may not be cool, or innovative, but at least you won’t get eaten.
Linus Torvalds’ products are the most configurable, but the hardest to use properly. Without his products, the underlying nature of most of the other projects from the other two guys won’t work. Despite this, his products will never really get the recognition he thinks they deserve; forever the bridesmaid, so to speak. Linus, however, doesn’t really care if you use his products, because if you’re using products made by someone else, you’re not really a true geek anyway. True geeks don’t have to be Mac OS or Windows, they just need to Not Be Mac And Windows.
A year or two ago I would have agreed with you about Linux being the hardest to use properly, but now now. Have you tried out the latest releases of OpenSUSE or Sabayon or even Lighthouse (a variation of puppy). Those buggers just install and you’re off and running at full steam. Lighthouse, which I run off a 16gb usb stick, comes with more software than I need.
Ubuntu.
On every pc I own, except my netbook.
And it will be on there, just as soon as win7 starter eats itself.
I always use OpenSuSE. SuSE is the only distro I ever did well with.
Slackware was a pain, and Mandriva didn’t want to install right. OpenSuSE was so automagic…
Linus doesn’t have products, he has a kernel. Other people put it in their products (including companies like DirecTV, Toshiba and Lexmark).
The only honest-to-gods shrine I’ve ever seen for creation of an OS was to Jordan Hubbard, who ran the FreeBSD project for a long time before going to Apple to run their OS group.
He has done work on a lot more of the Linux software than just the kernel. He’s kept busy over the years.
Man, that’s a blast from the past… Used to know Jordan, hope he’s doing well…
Interesting webpage: http://hero-worship.com/portfolio/holy-trinity/?p=452
But what I really wanted to do was take an apple and smash that window.
There is nothing wrong with Windows that 64,000 patches can’t fix.