Future Trends In Home Computing

James Bell writes: "I just read an interesting article over here that talked about future trends in home computing and what is and isn't driving the home computer market. I thought it was interesting that the author said that more people where adding DVD players and surround sound speakers to their home computer in hopes of makeing it their new home theater. I think a lot of people are bringing their computer to the home theater in the family or media room and converging it that way."

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I'm Blind!!

[ADRA]

All I can say about this article is their Serif fonts are crazy!!!

I couldn't look at it more than 2 seconds without going cross eyed.

No. You get what you pay for.

[Artifice_Eternity]

Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position.

Yes, you realized the solution you chose was incompatible with the plan you'd made. Was that the fault of Linux, or the fault of your bad planning?

We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.

There WAS an option: "give away" your hard work. Lots of people gave you the hard work they put into developing Linux. The deal you made by using it was that you'd do the same. Your own mindset -- that all your work had to remain secret for economic reasons -- was the problem here. In fact, the GPL license was rendering tremendous benefits to you, by letting you use the collective work of others for free. The "price" of the free software you used was that you would share your own work, and you chose not to pay it. That was your loss.

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Yes, I know the original post was a troll...