[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Simon thinks that having consumer-friendly standards
is a good and useful thing. Hardware manufacturers, for different
reasons, tend to agree…“Accepting that a world where the Linux operating system has
overtaken Windows to become the planet’s most
popular is the kind of idyllic dream that’s
years off at best (if at all), there’s always a
bit of me that wishes people would just get behind the principle of
it all a little bit more. Not necessarily the principle of Linux
specifically, rather the ideas and thought processes behind open
source.“Let me give you an example. I own a Sony camcorder. Now Sony is
a firm notorious in the past for doing things in a proprietary
manner…”