[BozemanLUG] Interesting times for Linux gaming

[David Boreham]

On 10/29/2012 11:34 AM, Brian Vincent wrote:
> Where Linux completely falls apart is when it comes to directory services.
Um...I can unfortunately accept some of the blame for this :(

Sadly there never really was the stomach to compete head-on with MS in 
this or other related areas, once they had achieved clear market 
dominance (often by leveraging an existing monopoly). There are also 
some significant technical and legal hurdles faced when you are not the 
client vendor. I really can't argue with the business types who were 
responsible for pulling the plug on our various efforts to compete --- 
it was likely correct to put new investment $ into new not-MS-dominated 
areas.

In future-world you'll be complaining about the $20/mo/seat you have to 
pay for the "Business iCloud" accounts, or Google Apps, or MS LiveOffice 
or Amazon Office Services, or (more hopefully) Rackspace or RedHat cloud 
service that will have replaced AD :)