--- Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suckers!!!
Who are you referring to Matthew, the Homeland Security Office in the USA who chose Microsoft, or the users of the internet? The biggests losers will be the Open Source Community, and the Linux community. This is just the tip of the Iceberg. Please understand, right now, the internet, the users, and the businesses use the internet because it is free, and unregulated. It is freely availble to anyone and everyone for there own purposes. However, Homeland Security cannot permit this to occur, because this freedom causes a lot of restrain on resources and making tracking people down very hard. To permit the Internet to continue like this in the US if Homeland Security is to address certain draw backs and pitfalls the internet has, there has to be some type of measures, and methods of tracking that can be introduced along with remote e-mail copy/retrival that the MS OS already affords in XP. With Microsoft becoming the winner, MS will eventually convince the powers at be, that the only method of really controlling the problems of crackers, spammers, and people that abuse the internet in general is to regulate it via OS, browser, and whatever other utility program that could be run on a computer you can think of. MS will suggest to the H.S. that all internet commerce, all websites, and all web browsers, Computer PC Operating Systems, and Cell phone and PDA services be run under the Microsoft OS that they will produce in the future, or the Internet will be made rendered unusable by other non-MS products. Don't you recall the Pentium III came out with CPU ID's when INTEL FIRST introduced them? Do you think that process has stopped? What about all those cell phones and PDA's now? Business people in the USA right now are somewhat upset by spam, viruses, and general mischief on the 'net. It costs them money. These problems occur because most PC users ( okay, say 70% ) are using MS products, and those people attacking those computers are running non-MS OS's. See where I'm going with this yet? Under the auspices of Homeland Defense, MS will, eventually argue successfully that the consumer must be 'regulated ' and 'protected' from unsavoury characters on the internet, or any operating systems that Homeland Security cannot regulate, monitor, or control be rendered unusable to its US web content and websites. For example: This senario is very much like it was around 100 years ago, when cars were introduced to the USA, government was lobbied by the public to control high speed accidents, issue vehicle insurance, driver's licenses, for safer roads. Has the liciensing, speed limits, and insurance stopped or eliminated accidents yet? You know the answer to that about your particular region, and if yoiu drive, I'm pretty sure you've seen you fair share of idiots to boot. I don't think so, but governments went ahead and did it anyway, because it can generate money for them in the long run. See this now? End my example... So, nothing new here. Pretty soon, say within 3 to 10 years, there will be a Windows OS you can operate via a RAM card ( with a Ram size that of a DVD or better I presume), that can plug into a newer computer, and included on it all your personal, financial info, and anything else you can dream up, to verify whom you really are. Your own, portable OS, and your information, stored on a RAM CARD, to operate a computer appliance, to let you email, play games, chat, send video, play/store purchased music, make telephone calls, while permitting security people within the H.S. Division to review your email and your web habits, to see if your an unsavoury character or not. And LINUX, *BSD, and all the others? My guess is that they will be regulated to a home computer hobby product or banned altogether as 'UNSECURE' by MS standards. Another Example: AOL dropped Netscape for 750 million USD. Microsoft bought it cheap. AOL and MS are now going to create a game, music and web business centre, pay for use. For music, something like what apple has done. The States claim of unfair practices went no-where. Microsoft, from what has been written recently, isn't even compling with the rules it was told to adhere to. Every other state and governor in the USA will eventually adopt the MS OS as a standard Citizen product, and Linux for what it has evolved to, and how far it has to go, will be regulated to computer science institutions and museums. I like Linux, and hate Microsoft Products. Unless Linux itself becomes more profitable, and more companies start adopting it, Linux becomes more expensive to keep around. I hope I'm wrong. I'll be very happy if I am. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
