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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