--- Phil Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who, if any of you, rely on linux as a desktop > machine? It has been
I run Linux exclusively on my two boxes and have built several for friends. My wife has a windows laptop, but she only uses it to play Myst and Riven. > represented to me that some hardware, i.e. certain > modems and printers, > only run on Microsoft windows. While I accept the > statement on its face, > I wonder why. Market share and pressure from microsoft. > Are the codes to make appropriate > drivers impossible to > write using unix or linux, or has a means to write > an appropriate code > just not yet been discovered, or what? Further, Some takes backward engineering, which has legal hazards. And, if part a does the same thing as b, and a works perfectly with linux, why bust your chops for b? > with respect to the > truth, do any of you think that we have reached > close to the potential of > existing hardware in the world with software > currently available, given > all the nonsense and superstition that even I > suspect? And, that in Existing? Maybe were are withing five to six years of extracting the maximum potential of currently produced hardware. It staggers the mind to imagine what is coming though. > mind, would it be impossible to rewrite linux afresh > with better code and > tell detractors like the SCO group to get a new > idea? Piracy has existed Sure. I know a young lady that is writing her own OS. I wish her all the success in the world. What she wants to do is write a code that will write itself to function on new hardware, sort of a benign virus that installs to any electronics you attach to your LAN, to enable a true smart house. > in many forms for a long time. Lies have existed > for a long time, also. > I believe that the best things in life are free. > Not factoring in the bread, eggs and milk huh? > How about China and its purchases of linux packages? > What might China do > with such? And it seems that few are afraid. > Perhaps minimal fear is > good, but Iraq did not scare me. I did appeal to a > linux users group for > help. Do you think that I should have asked IBM? > Fear is good, it keeps you from doing something stupid. Pain is what teaches you if fear did not suffice. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle Capital punishment makes the state a murderer. On the other hand, life in prison makes the state a gay dungeon master. -- Rev. Jesse Jackson "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions..." - Doug Riddle __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
