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Psychological barriers
Monday, January 8. 2007
Paul Murphy again, this time in Linux: no longer a winner?:
But what's scary for Linux is this: the applications and GNU components we think of as Linux don't depend on the Linux kernel - meaning that the only barriers to mass migration by Linux developers to Solaris or the BSDs are psychological.The article perfectly describes my experience of the last year or so:
- An increasing number of customers recognize that Linux alone is not a answer, it´s a technological answser. A possible answer, but maybe not the best one Linux is at first a social phenomenon. The influences of the "big business" are capable to rip off this special face. Linux positioned itself as an alternative to commercial unixes. It was a reaction to the closed world of unix.
- Where is really the difference of a commercialized open source linux and a commercial open source unix? A long long time one of the unique selling point of Linux was "We are the good ones!" But now, not really a difference.
- The psychological barrier is at first the fear of an obsolescence of knowledge.
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I am not sure what to think of that. Basically, then and now I am convinced that GNU in many respects is the answer (politically, socially, technically) to a lot of questions arising with the so-called "information age", or, at least, it's sort of an idealistic approach of handling information, code, knowledge, an approach worth pursuing nevertheless.
Linux has given the GNU idea quite a bunch of popularity and also itself gained popularity due to the fact that GNU people by then still lacked a kernel really usable within a GPL environment. It seems this combination managed to grow a wider awareness of what OpenSource and/or Software Libre is about and finally also managed to make some major companies (IBM, SUN, ...) move in that very direction. If this is the role Linux is supposed to play in computing history - why not? Let's see which systems are to follow - Nexenta GNU/Solaris is an interesting approach as well, and, given that one day maybe the Solaris kernel might be available to that distribution in a consistent licensing way (i.o.w. under a GPL license, like Java), the kernel probably really doesn't matter that much anymore...
Linux has given the GNU idea quite a bunch of popularity and also itself gained popularity due to the fact that GNU people by then still lacked a kernel really usable within a GPL environment. It seems this combination managed to grow a wider awareness of what OpenSource and/or Software Libre is about and finally also managed to make some major companies (IBM, SUN, ...) move in that very direction. If this is the role Linux is supposed to play in computing history - why not? Let's see which systems are to follow - Nexenta GNU/Solaris is an interesting approach as well, and, given that one day maybe the Solaris kernel might be available to that distribution in a consistent licensing way (i.o.w. under a GPL license, like Java), the kernel probably really doesn't matter that much anymore...
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