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Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?
scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of Linux, according to this article by Robert Cringely of PBS." If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?
Are you sure? I heard a rumor that FreeBSD was dying.
That's about as likely as Jack Valenti saying, "We actually don't need copyrights to last this long," or Duke Nukem Forever being released.
This
If anyone could ruin the stability of Linux.....it would be Microsoft.
peace be with you.
Will Linus accept the BSOD patch for the kernel?
You mean we'll finally get winmodem drivers for linux??? whooo hoooooooo! I can use by thinkpad!
~corporate tool, but employed~
MicroSoft could say "Hey, look at how often Linux crashes now!"
You mean, like OS X?
No, he means like Lindows.
specifically, what a premise.
Let me start thinking that way.
You can get to a root prompt in Linux. You can do so in BSD as well. Solaris, also.
Apparently, these are all actually the same thing - they're all running Linux, underneath it all. And because it's that simple, it's just marketing - since the product is free - Solaris is just hyping it up so that people will use CDE.
Lets go further. Also, you can find a brain inside every animal. Cats have brains.
So, deep down, we're all cats, right*?
*Really old, bad movie quote
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I cringed while reading this.
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Yea Microsoft would never base their products on something that apple made.. oh.. wait a minute....
Not literally the world, dumbass.
"Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux?"
No because I hate Microsoft and I refuse to see any good that could come from it.
MS could just buy Mandrake and not miss a beat...say hello to the new clippy.
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
Sorry, I hate to be picky, but don't you mean that Microsoft checks code out but it doesn't check in?
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
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microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
really, I could reboot OS/2 by clicking Ctrl-Alt-Del. Is not it the sign that it is just DOS?
I can reboot Linux by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, that means it must be based on DOS...
you're bang on, man
;)
again, we think, who combines the awesomeness of *nix with the gui wikedness of XP? Oh yeah, apple!
"Old man yells at systemd"
That's because the misread it as the BSoD licence and thought it fitted their products perfectly.
"E pur si muove!" - attributed to Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Microsoft M$ has so much cash on hand they could:
1)decide they are going to sell refrigerators
2)spend ten years in refrigerator R&D
3)flood the refrigerator market
4)still have cash
5)profit lol
so. Linux? no problem.
this question should have no relation to the relation between programming for windows and Linux etc. it is purely about how rich they are.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
no...
:)
i love easy questions
He didn't include any digs at Windows.
What Lies Beneath: Why Cringley Should Write His Next Article on Toilet Paper
I was discussing this article with a friend, and he suggested that Cringley should write his next article on toilet paper. And you know, it actually makes some sense!
> If Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free software .. couldn't they?
Gee what where they THINKING?!
"Wow! We could become the world's largest vendor of Free software!"
-Or-
"we continue to be the world's largest vendor of software that people PAY for.."
Is it still mindboggling? Why is this even a thread?
I wonder which mascot they will use...Personally, I'd prefer tux rather than some dancing orangutang. ;)
python >>>
reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))