Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

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The inquirer? A joke? No ABM punches pulled by the blogger here.

The statements of "glee" over total speculation about intel "dropping" MS and the links to bloggers who could never be termed anything more than gossip bloggers and who have no objectivity nor any industry recognition whatsoever, fit that very pattern of subjective trash put out by the inquirer.


From the inquirer:


The real question is what are they going to use? The official answer is 'nothing yet', the one where they try not to offend is 'likely Windows 7', delivered with a pained smile. Since that is shaping up to be Me II SP1a, I am not sure Intel will bite there either unless they suddenly develop a GPU that can run it in that time frame.



That sums up the worth of the inquirer quite handily. My 5 year old displays more integrity and adult objectivity when he speaks than the inquirer's vermin of the blogosphere.


There is no doubt that intel is not leaving open source out of their business plans, it is inevitable that free software will someday get good enough to compete with Windows and it's partners and the upper regions of the software stack. But Linux is years behind at that level of the stack and all the linux fanbois, such as this blogger, who as much admitted it, can claim here is linux is more compact and possibly more reliable, but that is totally based on the fact it doesn't have nearly the functionality nor the usability of windows.


Linux based OSes are surely striving for that and to be Windows "like" has been their aim for almost 20 years now. I wish them good luck but after 20 years, with a good 5 or 10 yet to go to compete at the levels they are hoping to, what is taking so long?


Maybe the proprietary way has not been so bad afterall.


Let's put it this way, the original Linux folks were totally anti Corporation, anti capitalists and close to being community based only.


They tossed that aside when they saw they were going nowhere and embraced captialism and cash to fund the movement from for profit outfits and huge corporations and soon they were in bed with giants like IBM, SUN and Google getting billions in cash to make open source even somewhat of competition. But even then they've not reached the summit. Perhaps Shuttleworth will take them to where he's wanted to all along....to proprietary land so he can monetize the desktop OS he is funding through cannonical.


He's already said desktop Linux can't compete w/o being monetized I believe it was.


But what would happen if Intel turned on Microsoft right now. If they were openly telling MS to shove it, as the author is suggesting could happen. Not rolling out Vista is not indicator whatsoever of intel doing any such thing with MS but luckily AMD rolled out Vista right away and reason tells me that intel is not quite ready to give away 90% of it's business. hmmmm. Well maybe the CEO has totally gone over the edge, maybe so.


AMD processor run Vista and Win7 just fine.

Vista no longer has anything for the ABMers to complain about and never had anything worse to contend with than OSS has had all along. Which was nothing on the stack above the OS essentially. It's all propoganda and it's not playing well any longer. The truth is out there and people are seeing past the billions put into trying to stop Vista. That was Apple alone. OSS is just more, although they didn't spend as much but relied more on false blogs and posts by the millions and websites discrediting Vitsa and MS in the hundreds.


That would be the greatest thing that could happen if Intel just cut off MS. They have no base on the desktop and AMD would soon be looking down at intel as "that little chip company".

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 01/05/09  (Edited: 01/05/2009 @ 06:56) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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