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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare
Every major DVR that is sold/rented by cable companies are Linux-based;
you called me ignorant. Show me one sucessful open source product that is a commercial sucess, and isn't half finished. Just one.
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RedHat's stock price passed MS last year, and their numbers have done nothing but increased even through the economic downturn);
The BSY-1 and BSY-2 sonar systems are both Linux-based;
...the list goes on and on.
And let's compare that with "commercial successes".
The iPhone had a bug in which an attacker could take over your iphone by sending a series of text messages.
MS Windows has created an entire cottage industry around antivirus and anti-spyware. They have also have vulerabilities in Windows that date back to Win3.1 that they will never fix.
Apple had vulnerabilities in their wireless drivers. Instead of fixing it, they sent a legion of lawyers to threaten the researchers that found it.
Sounds like the big boys shipped half-baked software too. The only difference is that you are out a bunch of money, and you are at their mercy as to when or whether they will ever fix it.
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Originally Posted by VulcanRidr
Although, you could argue that Tivo-ization (which it appears Nokia is guilty of imposing on us in the Nokia tablets and the N900 phone) gives us just as much lock-in in terms of being able to have the community fix the ruined bits that are closed or are held hostage to the closed bits of code.
Every major DVR that is sold/rented by cable companies are Linux-based;
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RedHat's stock price passed MS last year, and their numbers have done nothing but increased even through the economic downturn);
The BSY-1 and BSY-2 sonar systems are both Linux-based;
...the list goes on and on.
And let's compare that with "commercial successes".
The iPhone had a bug in which an attacker could take over your iphone by sending a series of text messages.
MS Windows has created an entire cottage industry around antivirus and anti-spyware. They have also have vulerabilities in Windows that date back to Win3.1 that they will never fix.
Apple had vulnerabilities in their wireless drivers. Instead of fixing it, they sent a legion of lawyers to threaten the researchers that found it.
Sounds like the big boys shipped half-baked software too. The only difference is that you are out a bunch of money, and you are at their mercy as to when or whether they will ever fix it.
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I actually love Maemo, but Nokia's support is the absolute SHITE