Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft!

[james_2002uk]

I read this article before...

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1446888520070614

It has the usual sensationalist title (see title of post). Didn't really say much about said counterattack but everyone knows that bullys hate it when people stand up to them so what do you reakon...

Are they indeed plotting to kick MS' *behind* ... or if you were plotting against a multi-billion dollar, global corporation what would your cunning plan be?

[cunawarit]

Are they indeed plotting to kick MS' *behind* ... or if you were plotting against a multi-billion dollar, global corporation what would your cunning plan be?

Just like the article says, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is about working together and presenting a more united front.

How to beat MS? Simply to have a better product. Linux does in the server world, thusly beating MS hands down.

But for the average Joe Blogs on desktop, who doesn't read manuals, or wants to install an OS, or knows about codecs, or cares about free/non-free, pre-installed Windows is a far less painful proposition than any Linux distribution and thus Windows still dominates. If Linux came pre-installed, with all the codecs you need for web browsing, and a great package manager that allowed you to flawlessly install software, and upgrade distribution then it would dominate... Are we that far off? Probably no, but there are a few factors still stopping Linux from taking the desktop world by storm; the MS monopoly on pre-installed OSs, way too many distributions for the average user to care or look into, lack of hardware support, stupid American laws that make some things like watching DVDs on Linux illegal, etc...