just replied to a linux thread and I remembered some stuff about linux philosophie I once thought about ...
but this didn't fit in that thread, so I do update my journal :)

sometimes I ask myself why do so many people invest so much energy in a very different system, that is in no way compatible to windows !
Why don't they try to rebuild windows as open source ?
They would just need the win32 api ...
and then they would get every windowsprogram running on this system, and then many people will switch over !
I think that this is the only way to fight against microsoft.
Allmost all of the good applications are avaible for windows,
so the firms produce for windows ...
the customer looks at windows and sees that almost every program is running on it and will buy it ...
I mean you see standardization everywhere,
everyone wants standardization,
just look at the people that hate the current diversity of dvd formats ...
win32 is de facto standard !

just look at windows 95 ... If microsoft would update it with directx and maybe some libraries and usb support,
it would probably also capable to run all the programs there are nowadays ... windows 95 was created like 8 years ago.
there are numerous dos compatibles that
do function quite good I heard like caldera dos ...
In 8 years it should have been possible to rebuild the win32 api, shouldn't it ?

But who cares, I don't see linux competing with windows in any field (despite server) as long as they don't try to get the windows applications running on windows ...
don't tell me about emulators ...
emulators are way too slow !

Just look at all these efforts done to linux,
all the people trying something ...
but they are incapable of realizing that it is just wasted time that won't get them nowhere ... maybe they are geeks who do have fun at programming ... so let them have their fun ...
but this is not the way to make linux compete against windows !
windows (win32) needs to be rebuild as open source.