On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:45:56 -0400
Richie de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority

> On June 28, 2002 10:09 pm, PlugHead wrote:
> > On Friday 28 June 2002 13:08, James wrote:
> > > > Read Linus' book?  In it he predicts that in 10 years, nobody
> > > > will care about operating systems, instead they'll all be using
> > > > appliances. You think Bill read that book?
> > > >
> > > > Blue skies...           Todd
> > >
> > > Todd,
> > >    I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he did actually.  Bill may
> > >    be many things but uninformed isn't one of them.
> > >
> > > James
> >
> > Yeah, but fortunately for "us", he's at least slightly delusional...
> >  True, most people couldn't even tell you what OS they're running,
> >  with any accuracy.  However... I'll bet that even your grandma
> >  shuns M$, once she discovers that she can't share pictures of you,
> >  because of some stupid copy-protection scheme Bill and Co. cooked
> >  up.
> >
> 
> ...This is the best we can hope for, that its limitations are _too_
> limiting and M$ even has a track record of providing "innovations"
> that are truly annoying like the paperclip in Office and the XP
> licensing model.
> 
> At any rate, Motorola, Cyrix, Sparc, et al haven't signed on to this
> yet either-- this may prove to be just another Wintel anomaly like
> software-based modems, PC serial numbers and so forth.
> 
> Richie

My advantage ..... I've only got my brother left on a non-Unix system! 
Sister on OSX (BSD Unix) Mom on Qnix (micro kernel Unix) Me on Linux or
FreeBSD. Wife almost converted to Linux (If I can just get it so that
she can enter data in Korean I'm done there.) ..... and a bunch of win98
cd's gathering dust. 

James

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