On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yes, you do, but in the open source world, you need several open source
> projects together to make something similar in functionality to Windows.
Right, what the end user (or distro) has to pull together in a symbiotic
relationship between projects, Microsoft acquires financially :)
> I am not saying that is wrong, and in fact it is often better, but you
> can't make a clear parallel between KDE and Windows, or Samba and
> Windows. What you could do is to draw similarity between Windows and
> Linux/KDE/Samba, but that is quite a mouthful for people to understand ---
> it is 1 to 3, not one to 1 as it is with Oracle-PostgreSQL.
Only because Windows has 'acquired' the technology and bundled it as it
saw fit ... at one point, they were distinct parts ...
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