The Battle of Media Centers for Linux

Choice is bad, mergers and monopolies are good. We only need one media player, one desktop environment, one light window manager...... He seems to miss the point that the whole point is that people have slightly (or hugely) different visions as to what they want and how they want it done, therefore they start a new project. Yes, that leads to duplication of some efforts, but that's a natural part of design. By his logic, we should only have one auto maker, one tv maker, etc., because they are all duplicate efforts. So much for innovation.

Apparently you haven't learned the lesson that we can only have ONE winner. Only ONE survivor. ONE reigning competitor, solution, dominatrix, whatever. ONE ring to rule them all! Heaven forbid everyone should run around sharing glory, waterholes and wealth! And no, we can't just all get along. Choices shmoices! Harumppphh! Just wait till next year. LXer will own the major networks! We'll rule the media world ruthlessly and shamelessly! We'll stomp out choice and competition! We'll... We'll... Huh? Wake up you say? Oh, I must have been dreaming.

> Apparently you haven't learned the lesson that we can only have ONE winner....

One editor in charge, who rules with an iron fist... Oh, sorry, wrong fora. :)

You guys with your "we need choice" are crazy. There was only one web browser available for years to most people (IE 6), and it did just fine. It gave a secure, feature-filled experience, and Microsoft kept innovating the whole time.

bigg:

You forgot your sarcasm tags.

My sarcasm tag is the phrase "Microsoft kept innovating".

@bigg,

You mean they didn't?

First you guys disillusion me about Santa Claus (some LXer let it slip that he's actually Blackbeard in disguise) and now you tell me that Microsoft hasn't been innovating. What's next? The Easter Bunny is actually a part time job for Wile E Coyote?

/me goes and hides just in case someone else destroys another fundamental "truth".

>The Easter Bunny is actually a part time job for Wile E Coyote?

No, not at all. Wile tried out for the job, but, at the audition, went postal on the interview committee when the timer beeped.

> The Easter Bunny is actually a part time job for Wile E Coyote?

Well, opinions differ. Some have argued that the Easter Bunny is actually Bun-Bun (http://www.sluggy.com) while others have argued that it's Kevin Dewclaw (http://www.kevinandkell.com). Finding the exact strips involved in beyond my time limits at the moment.

> No, not at all. Wile tried out for the job, but, at the audition, went postal on the interview committee when the timer beeped.

Absolutely correct... The job was then offered to the Road Runner, but he declined and took the job with Time Warner. The Easter Bunny position is, to my knowledge, still open if Darren wishes to apply.

Nah -- too seasonal ...

If Blackbeard would retire from the Santa gig, however, then maybe I could do with both.

But I think I'd have to get whoever is covering the Tooth Fairy job to give me that position as well. Too bad I'm so darned ugly in a tutu though. Maybe I should settle for Snack Fairy, if I could displace Colin.