On Wednesday 14 March 2007 18:03, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> CPM and DOS were never used to run large e-commerce and other Internet
> services. There was nothing compelling enough about them to keep them
> going and they had too many deficits to continue in the face of rapidly
> advancing technology and requirements. That is not true of Linux and
> will not be true for the foreseeable future.
Well, actually, Windows 3.1 kept DOS very much alive for several years
and
long enough to be used in plenty of e-commerce applications... (I was there)
of course before they were called e-commerce... :-))) In fact, DOS was
still very much evident in Windows 95, 98, and even... yes even W2000.
> Linux will not die for the simple reason that it is absolutely essential
> to the likes of Google, Amazon and many, many others.
Correct... and because (if you will) the genie (or cat, as you like) is
out
of the bag for the desk market as well... and growing strong.
> We probably should not want any one operating system, be it proprietary,
> open-source or a hybrid, to displace all others. Monopolies and
> monocultures have bad consequences by their inherent nature.
Also correct. No one really wants Coke or Pepsi to die... what we want
is
choice, freedom, and honest competition.
> You claim that Linux's continued existence is contingent upon it
> satisfying the needs of non-technical users of computers. That's not
> true, nor will Windows disappear any time soon, and that's true
> regardless of how brilliantly Linux advances.
Partially true... Windoze will die... and the first real nails in the
coffin
lid are M$ Fixta... this is definitely one of those times where giving them
enough rope will eventually hang them... the competition will be among the
unix-like OSs, and M$ will become unix-like or it will die. (My prediction)
> Because Windows will continue to be a predominant OS for a very long
> time, I think computing professionals should pressure Windows to get
> its technological act together (especially regarding security). And
> institutional and government users, not to mention law-enforcement
> agencies, should be pressuring (or litigating) Microsoft to do business
> in a more honorable fashion.
Hog wash... I read every day about one or two more corporations or
governments dropping windoze for linux desktop... every day. Folks are just
fed up, period. Fixta took five years, millions of people, and billions of
dollars--- and its crappy eye candy with all the same old problems that have
always plagued it... except that it required MORE memory, MORE CPU, and MORE
money... folks are sick and tired of the M$ tax... or should I say FUD money.
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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