Tokeing the editorial Crack Pipe
Is this guy smoking crack or what?. Hacking the driver layer from windows onto the LINUX kernel? Its called NDIS, baby. Its been done.
Anyway, Mr John C. Dvorak it totally wrong. Hacking the driver layer from Windows onto Linux would not kill Linux - sure, the x86 version I’m sure many people would use, but what about all those other millions apon millions of SPARC, POWER and ALPHA (and about another billion platforms) out there? Those drivers are not controlled by Microsoft but rather the Hardware vendors. They won’t go around compiling drivers for a bunch of different architectures.
Besides, Microsoft would have to do a lot more for people to actually USE .MS-LINUX. . What about Microsoft.s .NET ?, what about all those apps out there that will need special libraries ported over to run on this new platform? It isn.t going to happen.
I won.t get too narky on Mr Dvorak, but the guy works in a market for Users (Writes for a mainstream computer magazine and hosts a show on TechTV). And really, what a sloppy article. No research and nothing strong to backup his points.
I guess it was a slow news day.