I've been asking myself quite similar questions lately. My main concern was "How come we have a free open source OS that is close from being equal quality to their closed paying competitors and it doesn't get any more popular?"
First answer is that if we are 100m close to an OSX quality, this is the hardest montain to climb ever. A climb that costed Apple all the investments they made in OS R&D...
But then I think another element of thinking is that Apple's computers are very famous for having hardware integrating software perfectly.
That's why I think the best solution to finally get the perfect machine with a FOS OS would be that a company - yes with financial interests etc. - would work on building the perfect laptop that really works for its OS that would be a fork of a popular linux distribution.
Selling their laptop would generate revenues, OS R&D could be invested in there too, and the FOS and Linux world would gain from there as well as the laptop company would.
And of course, their early adopters would be all those would-be-geeky-developpers that went to apple for comfort but whenever a new text editor is released, they immediatly move to it thanks to the trend... And they are numerous!
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Linux distribution should be hardware specific ...
Date: 2014-05-26 05:28 pm (UTC)First answer is that if we are 100m close to an OSX quality, this is the hardest montain to climb ever.
A climb that costed Apple all the investments they made in OS R&D...
But then I think another element of thinking is that Apple's computers are very famous for having hardware integrating software perfectly.
That's why I think the best solution to finally get the perfect machine with a FOS OS would be that a company - yes with financial interests etc. - would work on building the perfect laptop that really works for its OS that would be a fork of a popular linux distribution.
Selling their laptop would generate revenues, OS R&D could be invested in there too, and the FOS and Linux world would gain from there as well as the laptop company would.
And of course, their early adopters would be all those would-be-geeky-developpers that went to apple for comfort but whenever a new text editor is released, they immediatly move to it thanks to the trend... And they are numerous!
Someone builds this company or I do it???