LINUX PIPELINE NEWSLETTER
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Tuesday, May 19, 2004

In This Issue
1. Editor's Note: Beware The Windows Comparison Fallacy
2. The Kernel: Top Stories This Week
  - Follow Up: Linux's Achilles' Heel
  - Readers Defend Desktop Linux's Future
3. Only The Best Linux And Open-Source News
4. Voting Booth: Cast Your Vote On Open Source Java
5. Shameless Self-Promotion

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1. EDITOR'S NOTE: Beware The Windows Comparison Fallacy

Head-to-head comparisons between Windows and Linux face the
danger of falling in to a common fallacy: People making those
comparisons often judge Linux solely on the basis of what Windows
is good at, and they fail to compare the two operating systems on
Linux's strengths. 

It's true that Windows has a greater breadth of application and
device support. But Linux is less expensive, and is more
flexible. It's better suited to embedded systems and service
worker's devices. Linux is also not controlled by a single,
American company, which is a big plus for international computer
users, especially those in the Third World. 

It may well be quite some time before significant numbers of
existing Windows desktops get replaced by Linux, but Linux is
seeing widespread desktop deployment in new applications, such as
point-of-sale systems. 

Readers took a couple of Linux Pipeline writers to task recently
for losing sight of those issues. First, columnist Fred Langa
describes some of the mail he received in response to a recent
column complaining that Linux is incompatible with many common
sound cards. He notes that Linux vendors themselves are often the
first to fall into the Windows comparison fallacy, charging
Windows prices for Linux desktops, and thus undercutting one of
Linux's main advantages, its low cost. 

Follow Up: Linux's Achilles' Heel
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20301173

And readers also took Yours Truly to task for my despairing
outlook on Linux's desktop future.

Readers Defend Desktop Linux's Future 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/trends/20600059

--Mitch Wagner, Editor
Linux Pipeline
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/
mailto:mwagner@cmp.com?Subject=LPNfeedback

For more commentary and links from Mitch Wagner, see Wagner's
Weblog
http://wagblog.internetweek.com

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2. THE KERNEL: TOP STORIES THIS WEEK

Follow Up: Linux's Achilles' Heel
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20301173
Expecting Linux to be the same as Windows is completely
unrealistic, but that's what many Linux vendors are doing. 

Readers Defend Desktop Linux's Future
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/trends/20600059
Readers say that Linux will first see widespread adoption in
desktops for service workers, such as point-of-sale systems.
Knowledge workers - in other words, people running Microsoft
Office - will come later. 

3. ONLY THE BEST LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE NEWS

Qantas Signs With IBM; Transitions To Linux
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=20600007
The 10-year outsourcing pact with IBM Global Services will create
a utility computing environment expected to help slash the
airline's operating expenses.
 	
IBM Offers Power Developers Free Tools 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20301300
 	
Microsoft Posts More Open Source Code 
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20300961

Quest Gives Away Java Code Profiler
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/20300905

4. VOTING BOOTH: Cast Your Vote On Open Source Java
http://linuxpipeline.com/vote/java_040427.jhtml
Should Sun Microsystems release Java as open source? 

THE RESULTS SO FAR:

Yes: 76% - 231 votes out of 303
No: 24% - 72  votes.

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