French Police switch 37,000 computers to Linux

[woodsmoke]

Read it and smile!

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise...armerie_linux/

Multimedia applications such as graphic design, audio engineering, and video editing have particularly lagged on Linux. According to Miguel de Icaza, one of the original designers of the GNOME desktop environment for Linux,

the lack of professional applications on Linux has a lot to do with early failures by him and other desktop environment creators to build standardized, backwards-compatible platforms for developers.

however......the above sentence is..... correct/not correct/troubling?
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Not at all, when one considers that while working to create a .NET clone in Linux de Icaza was perpetually extolling the virtues of windows over Linux. All he was really setting up was an MS IP patent trap. (Remember the Mono wars created by in influx of Windows developers wanting to extend the sales territory of the shareware .NET apps?) A couple years ago, when .NET collapsed following the failure of the London Stock Exchange (and its conversion to Linux) de Icaza moved to Mac, in hopes of creating an income source writing MONO apps for Mac. I don't think that worked out well for him either. Sliverlight and Mono are dead, and .NET is dying, if not dead.
de Icaza and his comments are irrelevant to any discussion of Linux.

[Teunis]

These days there's little left to be desired re. multimedia in Linux.
In case some outfit wants to use a patent or IP burdened application or codex in Linux they're free to include it as a binary blob, is it interesting enough people will use it.
Intel video is well supported but the HW is lacking compared to high end nVidia and AMD/ATI, Intel is is working on upgrading their hardware and nVidia Linux support improving fast.

I think Linux can make a a big surge in multi media once a modern alternative to X is available.

And de Icaza lost his credibility years ago.

[woodsmoke]

Thanks guys, I had no idea of his history.

woodsmoke