The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[anthony baldwin]

sdavmor wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Amit Kumar wrote:
>>
>>>> Everyone looks at things differently. Looks like we will agree
>>>> to disagree.
>>>>
>>> Nobody has to comment on coming together of Linuxes. Does it
>>> really not matter? Would love to hear on this.
>> Really, you should ask questions like this on the sounder list, not
>> here... but I can't resist.
>>
>> No, it _doesn't_ matter.  So many Linuxes (and Unixes, too) exist
>> because we _want_ diversity.  Ubuntu exists in large part because,
>> at the time of its introduction, Debian was in its third (iirc)
>> year of "imminent release" of "sarge".  Debian users were getting
>> fed up with the slow release cycle. Otoh, the every-six-month cycle
>> of Ubuntu is too much for some users.
>>
>> Unix/Linux development is evolutionary not revolutionary.  Just
>> like Darwin's theory, Linux develops by slow mutation - some
>> mutations are advantageous, and we keep them; some take us down an
>> evolutionary dead end (e.g. Caldera or Corel). 

Corel Linux was one of the first I tried.
I thought it was cool having CorelDraw and WordPerfect.
I wonder why that didn't take off better...

/tony
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