Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Linx? Oh, no, that was taken :)

The "Free beer" is with open recipe :D

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Give me my fix of "The Prisoner" or "The Avengers" any time

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

works for mee too.
OTOH, that other (operating?) system that apparently joe sixpack has no problem in maintaining in perfect form, and everybody says it's ready for anything, never seems to work right for me.
Sure, I use it, and mostly works, but it's extremely annoying to coax into shape (and the result is not guaranteed)

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Wow. I've watched a lot of British TV and they use the word "Brilliant" a lot to mean "Wonderful" but that's amazing that they'd use "cleave" to mean "adhere" on 21st century TV.

Anyway. Enough about 60's TV shows.

I think Linux / OSS is used a lot by techies for behind-the-scenes and niche applications. And I think they're completely happy with that.

The people who stress about market share and stuff are those who want Linux to become "mainstream". I think quite a few of those people want Linux to be mainstream because if it becomes mainstream, big companies will write drivers, applications, and even games for Linux.

I think there's also a segment of Linux users in the hardcore "free-libre" camp who want their desktops unbesmirched by commercial applications, in the same way some people I know have been recently trying to buy only certified organic foods. And these people tend to be a bit evangelistic, in that they want everyone to discard "non-free" software and come into the Light.

I think there's a lot of us out there who wished we didn't have to boot to Windows to play our favorite online FPS games, but you know, you roll with the punches, you do what ya gotta do... This is never going to be a perfect world, Microsoft is never going to (really) open their API...

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

There's an "Open Source Beer" in Denmark (it says so on the label). The recipe is free, er, open, I mean freely available. I only saw the label, I haven't actually tasted it so I don't know if it'll be a hit on the desktop market or not.

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

There's Guarana in it, probably will be a hit at night :)

Re: Is this what's holding back Linux and OSS in general?
 

Brilliant would commonly mean wonderful (or even 'bril'), I wouldn't even think about that. As you say, 'cleave' is less commonly used in that sense, and it would generally be a public school person, or someone who had studied English (ie, beyond general school level). It wouldn't be common.

There are also those that use it for machines. I have an eee, and I have kept it at the default linux install, because it has everything I need on that machine. So effectively I am using it despite it being linux.