On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Andy Sy wrote:
> Excuse me, I never said WinXP will die for lack of standards. Stop
> putting words in my mouth, please. MS can make its own standards and has
you did say verbatim for linux dying due to lack of standardization.
so it was an implied parallelism with XP if it didnt support some
network/security standards. (there wouldnt have been a realistic reason
to replace their Win9x boxes).
> Experience in the graphics area has shown that open standards will
> not necessarily win over closed ones. The flip side of openness is
> that it sometimes promotes fragmentation. The price to pay for freedom
> of can often be slower standardization.
now at least it comes down to 2 things: graphics & networking. probably,
microsoft can get away with driving the graphics industry. glitches in
graphics standards is not too costly for most of us. but it cannot drive
the networking standards because a slight hickup can affect the Internet.
that's probably the reason why ppl here involved in networks bet
their jobs on some linux flavor, and with piece of mind, relax afterwards
with their windows gui gaming rigs.
pong
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