Timothy Bolz wrote:
> Most of us felt the .net plan won't work.
I felt the same way until yesterday when I read this essay.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/students.html
Check it out. (BTW, note that it was written in Feb, 1999, about
18 months before Microsoft announced .NET.)
Summary:
Many college students do not have a personal computer, instead
their computing is web-centric. Web servers hold their email,
diary, files, course notes, etc., and they access it through
whatever computer they're sitting at. The hardware is
irrelevant, and so are the OS, browser, window manager, etc.
They just need to access their web servers.
.NET plays well to this style of computing. If uSoft can use their
document format monopoly to make the local PC into "just a web
browser", then they'll be unscathed if/when the Justice Dep't forces
them to divest their OS business.
Yeah, I'm ranting. But this rant is worth what you paid for it!
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