No windows did not have any influence at all. Drivers for printers, cams,
video, sound, and other hardware. More manufactures are seeing more of a demand
for drivers to run their products in Linux and Unix. More companies are
switching over to Linux and Unix formates to run their servers. That is a big
push right there. Mainly it is hard to hack into the main frame of the Linux and
Unix server. If you are at work, MS mainly floats on it. What company such as
ABC Wigets want to buy printers that cannot run in Unix or Linux. That is money
lost and given to a company who supports all O/S out there. The other is people
who know coding get the hardware for free. By pleading, begging, and throgh
persisatanc and of all sorts They begian of hack into hardware from scratch.
Then share it with the open source.
Linux has gone a long ways. It improves every year. Really every six months.
The ease of using Linux and Unix is getting better with each upgrade at 6 month
intervals. MS you may get a full upgrade in several years.
Does Windows play an influence to Linux. Yes, to beat MS at their own game.
Windows does not have open source. So no one can write MS code freely and share
it with other people out there. Linux the other hand. Shares it code and people
can improve on it. Twist it up and make it do what they want to do.
This bring up to mind of a person who posted an open letter to the KDE develop
team here on this group. The thing about Linux is that once you know the code.
You can make a button to go where you want it to go. You can flex it, bend it,
mold it, and make some art out of it. With MS. If you work for MS and you make a
splashing idea. You get a pat on the back and given a gift card to Wal-Mart for
$50 bucks. Then told it is part of the job and you cannot take you clever
invention and run your own company. You are thanked by a gift card and your boss
gets a week paid vaction on who you report to who lives in India. How great is
that you get thank you via email on a person you known by emails and can fire
you for nothing.
With Linux. You get a pat on the back, others pat you on the back, and others
from a far pat you on the back. Your idea is shared through thousands of people.
You see your hard labor put to work. Do you get any money. Maybe? . Yet, you
made a history. On getting a button that pushes MS over the edge. Then MS says.
All ask in free!. And releases a open source of their O/S. If I see that happen.
I am going to wear depends for a year. Only reason why I cannot stop laughing.
To the point I will loose all body funtions.
So the people who get made at Linux and not doing what they want it to do.
First off it is free. Linux is not Windows or Mac O/S. With Linux you have a
choice on what what you want to do.
First they laugh at you then they will fight you, and then you win.