A sound of Thunder

Jan 15, 2009, 17:34 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jeremy Allison)

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"Windows XP was so successful, so widespread, that the desire of most customers would be to keep that version around for a much longer time, with updates and security patches as needed, but no radical new version to install. No forced upgrades.

"The irony of course is that this is exactly what most modern Linux distributions provide. Yes, they churn new releases out every six months, a change rate much faster than that of Windows. But unlike Windows this is a treadmill where the customer has their hand on the speed control, not the vendor."

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