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TRON: The Unknown Open-Source?
jordandeamattson writes "Over on CNN there is a very interesting article about Tron, an open-source real-time operating system from Japan first developed and distributed in the early 1980s. The claim is that it is more widely distributed than Windows (in some 3 billion devices world-wide), that the developer (Ken Sakamura, a University professor) would be worth mucho if he had just charged for it, and that Microsoft/U.S. goverment used trade rules (Super 301) to block it adoption by schools in Japan. Check it out for an interesting read and a 'what might have been ...'" (Here's a previous mention of Tron from March about MontaVista's work to combine it with Linux.)
Tron is an OS? I thought Tron was a simple program, written only to destroy the MCP.
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Micro$oft Windows doesn't control electronic devices ranging from mobile phones to fax machines and even kitchen appliances, as far as I know, right??? (I hope it doesn't anyways)
How can you compare the two?
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In the movie TRON, TRON was a program designed to crack security and free the computer from an overpowering OS that became self-aware and was plotting to take over everything. In the end TRON was victorious.
It's not hard to draw obvious parallels...
Hearing that M$ went out of the way to block TRON from being used on this side of the pond brought back found memories of said movie. Give that program one of those cool disks from the movie and see what happens...
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
First revealed in 1984, PR0N, which can be modified for use on personal computers, was hailed in Japan as a homemade software which could break the dominance of Playboy and Hustler and free Japanese masturbators from the burden of paying for the basic software.
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Is that instead of just deleting old programs, you can throw frisbees at them and they'll disappear. For once, you'll be able to have as much fun deleting files as Strong Bad[homestarrunner.com].
It wasn't me, it was the one-armed
If TRON is more deployed than *BSD, then TRON has less of a chance of dying.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I can get a 14 foot spoiler and Type R stickers for my operating system!
At a penny a user, he'd only have to sell 4.3 trillion licenses, what's so odd about that? And of course, he'd get it all tax-free, so he could just stuff it under his matress and amass this collossal fortune...
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Wow, he'd have to have a really big matress to fit 4.3 trillion pennies under it. I hope he doesn't live on the top floor of some apartment building.
I read the internet for the articles.
TROFF. -)
I think RMS would be happy... we could all do the GNU/TRON dance.
Maybe someone should forward this story to Darl, get him time to get his lawsuit ready.
Wow, he'd have to have a really big matress to fit 4.3 trillion pennies under it. I hope he doesn't live on the top floor of some apartment building.
That's not an apartment building, it's his stack of pennies.
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That's a futon, you insensitive clod!
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Of course it's scary. Why do you think it's abbreviated as WinCE?
Hurrah!
Let's hear it for the hardline moderates.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.