David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:

The point is people will beleive him, why should they listen to a group of geeks? What linux lacks is the marketing machine which can put out the reverse FUD on MS and thus balance things?

I've been quite impressed with the recent xinit and DNUK efforts, but they're still focusing on preaching to the choir in order to sell more of their machines. Hopefully one or both will start in the mainstream Real Soon Now.

[...] Will the mac with linux/BSD/OS X be able to compete finally on the open market?

No.

Apple have got the Ease of use thing down to an art, linux and the FS communitee have power and reliability down to a tee, so why not mix both together and we could then really rock the planet?

Apple make some quite fundamental user interface errors in the more recent versions of their interface (it's a long time since 1984). I think that looking at all interfaces which have gone before and mixing bits up, picking the best from each, but focusing on simplicity, is the way to heaven. It's what I'm trying to do, anyway. I'll let you know if I succeed... ;-)