Walt, this is more of what I am learning in class, now I'm going to sound just like a college student spewing what I learned, but I hope you fin it interesting. "Windows...was never the best OS platform." The reason MS was able to steal the market was due to what is termed the 'UNIX wars'. While all the UNIX users/companies were trying to sort out how to grow and merge their standards, MS swept in ready to go a took a large share of the computer world. Christopher Kelty published an interesting book titled, 'Two-Bits'; he provides the following explanation in a nutshell "Microsoft triumphed, largely for the same reasons the open-systems dream failed: the legal structure of intellectual property favored a strong corporate monopoly on a single, branded product over a weak array of “open” and competing components.There was no large gain to investors, or to corporations,
from an industry of nice guys sharing the source code and making the components work together."
Leaving me an overwhelmed computer science student who must re-learn everything I knew about computers, because Linux IS the superior OS. *please sense my humor in the proceeding statement.
And Tracy there is so much to learn, I should have started in in 2000.
If anyone is interested in Kelty's work here is a link to his free publication that can be read or downloaded.
The school district I work is located in the suburbs of Chicago. They deployed 1:1 technology in the 2012-2013 school year and it seems to be very successful. Note: I am not a teacher. I am merely a support staff personnel, but I am currently pursuing my CS degree and have been in education as special education teachers aide for 9 years. So technology in the classroom is near and dear to my heart. That being said, our district uses Google Chromebooks, Open Class, and Google docs. What suggestions do you have that I can bring to some of my teacher friends to help them expand their own and the students' knowledge into the world of open source?
Walt, this is more of what I am learning in class, now I'm going to sound just like a college student spewing what I learned, but I hope you fin it interesting. "Windows...was never the best OS platform." The reason MS was able to steal the market was due to what is termed the 'UNIX wars'. While all the UNIX users/companies were trying to sort out how to grow and merge their standards, MS swept in ready to go a took a large share of the computer world. Christopher Kelty published an interesting book titled, 'Two-Bits'; he provides the following explanation in a nutshell "Microsoft triumphed, largely for the same reasons the open-systems dream failed: the legal structure of intellectual property favored a strong corporate monopoly on a single, branded product over a weak array of “open” and competing components.There was no large gain to investors, or to corporations,
from an industry of nice guys sharing the source code and making the components work together."
Leaving me an overwhelmed computer science student who must re-learn everything I knew about computers, because Linux IS the superior OS. *please sense my humor in the proceeding statement.
And Tracy there is so much to learn, I should have started in in 2000.
If anyone is interested in Kelty's work here is a link to his free publication that can be read or downloaded.
http://twobits.net/read/
Thanks for listening,
Jacki