Why Linux Matters??? - Part II

This is the second article in a two-part series on “Why Linux Matters???”

4. Linux means Choice: What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Chocolate chip? Butterscotch, maybe. When you go to the ice cream shop, you expect them to have a lot of flavors to choose from right? Not if you visit the Microsoft Ice Cream store.

Sure, it's big and efficient and they've got hundreds of workers there. But all they serve is vanilla. Well you can make ice cream at home (not an option) or go to one of their competitors (it's hard to find them for some reason) or you better start liking vanilla.

Compare this to Linux. More than 300 flavors. Not only do they have your favorites, but exotic flavors you've never heard of. OK, so we're not talking about operating systems not ice cream here but the same argument applies. Linux is not really a single operating system. Read More @ Linuxtimes.net