DISQUS

"then this guy here goes on talking avout how everything evolves even computer sofware? which don’t make no goddam sense if you even think about it a little i think you just like using big words and try to get everyone thinkin that evolution is real just by saying it agin and again on the internet. evolution evoltuion evolution yu see what im trying to say/ maybe you need to get your butt in church and forget all that college nonsense." -- Roy

Tell ya what go load Linux 0.9.2 vs 2.6.27 an you tell me whether the kernel has not evolved over time. But then I am not suggesting that there was some divine interventionism going on, just incremental improvements.

As to your desire for choice on what gets put in your child's bodies; I am right behind you 100%. Oh, but please sign here, that you take full fiscal responsibility for 3rd parties in the event of communicable disease exposure. Your rights cease when they interfere with mine.

Actually I am a gun toting Neanderthal that makes Palin look like Obama on the political scale. That does not eliminate the fact that what I stated is not the case. As to use of language, I can grunt with the best of them. :)

Sadly you defeated your own argument on a need for 'standardization' of the Linux GUI interface when you mentioned you were enthralled by the presence of something like Compiz Fusion. In a monoculture of development something like Compiz would not come to fruition. What you decry as a waste of effort, I call diversity of the herd. The herd is made of many distros, over time by evolutionary forces improvements are made to the herd. Those distros that could not adapt to the changes wither, die or are gobbled up in a purchase. Every once in a while a mutation occurs signaling a vast change in the future of the herd. Slowly the entire herd adapts the change.

The organic change however is what keeps the herd vibrant but unwaveringly moving forward. On the other hand you have something like the clones of Microsoft. Their colony has not moved forward in 2 years as Vista has been a marketplace dud. Vista is an evolutionary dead end and the whole community suffers because of it. Will Windows7 fare better? You won't know because it is not seen on the plains of computer landscape yet.

What you decry as a waste is really progress. Embrace it. Find a project, make it better. Fork it if you have to. FOSS is an evolutionary process.

I would emphasize that adoption is not a problem. ASUS will sell 5m units of the eePC most with Linux installed. Motherboards are coming out that can cold boot into mail and a browser using Linux under the hood. The end user is not aware of it but that is what is happening -- even if Windows is whatis loaded on the hard drive.

I might point out that Google Trends is somewhat misleading as it is news about a topic. Not necessarioy the adoption rate. I would also point that Ubuntu is unique in that it wants to be adopted. That generates tons of newbie chatter upping their Trends presence. Trends would also underreport the experienced slackware or RHEL admin who makes one copy of the iso and propriagates it across the enterprise with nary peep .

Not that I am dissing Ubuntu. I use it on various systmes.

I would have only one quibble with your web observation on Pythion. Of the three Python is the only language that was not built to be on the web from the beginning. But regardless Python can make a fair showing of its qualities on the web.

I would suggest a review of three python tools. Karrigell is a full fledged environment. It even provides its own http server. Cheetah and MyGhety are two template languages one could consider. Each has its own strengths and produce fully formed html code.

There are others of course (Django, TurboGears) that provide the full MVC stack if you wish.

Radar, the advantage for google is no assimilation friction. If they see an app taking off (they are monitoring you) then they can turn around and make either job offer to the team or a buyout. That offer will come long before the VC crowd gets hold of them.

Dave, I am surprised you are surprised about Microsoft. Microsoft has made only 2 right moves in its existence and 2 very bad misses. Faking IBM out of owning the OS and beating Novell in the NOS game were the wins. The losses were not recognizing the Netscape threat and now Saas. [Sorry the Software + Services play they have going won't cut it. Still requires too much investment at the desktop.] So with that track record over a 30 year period I never bet on MS. I've Unix/Linux since the 1990s.