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Do you even read what you posted? "As long as she doesn't need sound its good" well who the fuck wants an OS with no damned sound? Pulse is a damned nightmare from hell friend and frankly the whole community has gone right off the deep end with the 'CLI is teh leet!" bullshit. Here check out this exchange and see how batshit the community has become. especially check out WorBux who thinks grandma knows what CP and MV is along with saying you need CLI for "for" loops, like normal people are writing if/then/else programmer horseshit!

Frankly MSFT could raise their prices 300% it wouldn't matter, apple might gain some more share but Linux sure as hell won't, because the community is so out of touch the normal users might as well be Martians! For the last 3 years NONE of my users besides me has even HAD CLI access, because i remove it from my image to clean up the start menu, do you know how many complained? hell do you know how many even noticed? NONE, zip zero zilch nada squat nein. Year after year, patch after patch, Windows just WORKS, no broken drivers, no fucked up "settings won't stick" BS like what I went through with networkmanager in Linux, no forum dances, no CLI fixes, none of that. The machine i'm typing this on is a circa 2003 WinXP Home box i got several years back out of a pallet of refurbs and keep as a nettop because its ultra low power Sempron makes for a cheap nettop and it still has the SAME INSTALL from 2003, that's two service packs, around 1800 patches, know how many broken drivers I've had? Know how many times I've had to go CLI with it? i'm sure you know the answer and THAT is why Windows is WELL worth the price!

The Nokia deal has the "smell of death" around it. Nokia said they won't be introducing any WP7 smartphones until 2012, which is an eternity in today's market. They're going to miss the back-to-school crowd, the Black Friday crowd, and the biggie - the Christmas holiday season. (see the last 8 paragraphs).

No wonder Microsoft had to kick in a billion dollars .... there's no other way that the deal could even begin to make any sort of sanity.

Now as for the game porting, some games are very dependent on screen size. Bejeweled is something you wouldn't waste your time with on a big-screen TV, and SimCity or Flight Simulator isn't something that lends itself to being anything more than an exercise in eyestrain on a cell phone.

Sure there are games that will still work, no matter what the resolution, but the smaller the display, the less perceived value in a game, so while the work is about the same, the income is a lot less, so unless you can get the phone version out as a low-cost side-line to the main event ....

I'm not saying it's something people shouldn't consider, just that there are several factors against it:

1. lower revenue per sale compared to all other channels;
2. time spent porting could be used to create original content better suited to the form factor instead of "Shovel-Ware 2.0";
3. mono is always going to be behind compared to the microsoft product ...
4. your collision detection and enemy behaviors logic would remain pretty much unchanged on Android/Java/Dalvik as well.

There's an article here about kickback against the whole idea that the world would miss Microsoft.

We have to keep in mind that a lot of people don't know anything *but* Windows. To them, Microsoft invented the PC. They don't know what it was like to "pay your dues" and help create the consumer computer market by buying all those primitive 6502 and 6808-based "home computers", often spending thousands of dollars. They would never believe that you could have a working graphical multi-user multi-tasking environment in 128k of ram @ 2 mhz.

To them, Microsoft is just "a natural monopoly". They don't remember Microsoft programs looking for specific mouse drivers to try to determine if they were running Digital Research DOS and then going "OMG YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM IS INCOMPATIBLE!" or other dirty tactics.

A few times in fact. And each and every accuser has had one thing in common: some connection to Microsoft. First it was by noted Microsoft evangelist Rob Erndale that Linux users were potential terrorists. Another one is the Micorosft sponsored group ADTI who have been publishing articles detailing how terrorists could use Linux to attack the USA and so it should be outlawed.

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I wonder how this will work with Opera's plans for an IPO?
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It's really astonishing to consider: now is the time that the tide is rapidly turning in favor of Linux and Open/Libre Software. From large governments to ISP's, I can see an increasingly bright and prominent future for OSS. We should smile at the thought that years of dedication by talented and forethinking hackers is finally paying off.

I very much think that in 15 or 20 years it will be this current age we remember as being the watershed moment where the "technological civilization" is realized.

Sadly, from what I understand (not being an Aussie myself), Telstra is a horribly and unfairly run/administered corporation, that often reaks of anti-competitive behavior, viz:

"Australia's Broadband Woes" [http://ectnews.com].