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TRON Enters Alliance With Microsoft
David writes "As widely reported on OSNews.com,
Forbes,
IDG,
CNet,
AustralianIT,
and Ashi
Shimbun - Microsoft Corp.
has entered into an alliance with the T-engine
Forum, the consortium behind the free software TRON
operating system. As TRON runs billions of
devices worldwide, this will help Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET
in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup
similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel." (Continued below.)
David continues: "This arrangement is ironic, as Microsoft is part of the reason why the U.S. in the 1980s prevented Japan from putting TRON into schools on the desktop by account of trade rules, which would've meant Linux may've never gone beyond being a footnote in the comp.os.minix archives. No doubt Microsoft is aiming to keep Linux out of the embedded space, and may in the long-term foster an environment where using anything other than industry-licenced OS software on the desktop becomes unviable for everyday tasks because all the infratructurial systems we take for granted today like radio, television, phones, IM, require Palladium-style walled gardens."
I'll never believe it... Tron fights for the users. He'd never work for the MCP.
Too late, they already put Windows on my gun, and it just keeps rebooting when I pull the trigger.
Blue Screen of Light-Cycle?
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
No thanks! Spare me the Microsoft stuff and give me a good old mechanical toaster! Yah!!
Err, shouldn't that be "I for one welcome our Microsoft Overlords... Again"
TRON and Microsoft are only working together on a new security system that will be able to protect heterogeneous systems from attack, so there is no reason to worry.
The first SDK for this software ("Skynet") should be out in about 18 months.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Better than having to pay an extra $699 to SCO for my toaster.
"The only ray of hope here, is that it will provide a great impetus to embeded linux."
Nope, the only hope here is if one of us users can get into the system and liberate TRON before he gets the bits blasted out of him on the game grid.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
Microsoft Certified Professionals?
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* Before someone tries to corrects me, don't worry, I already know the reference to Tron the movie.
I'm not looking forward to the BSOD on my toaster...
Is that a Brown Slice Of Death ?
Never, ever lose a file again. Ever.
"Leopards don't change their spots
Lions don't lie with lambs
Microsoft doesn't play well with others"
Ah, but caterpillars turn into butterflies. Your argument is defeated! Buahaha!
See how easy it is to attack an argument that overly relies on metaphor? I'm really suprised you were modded up.
"The early bird gets the worm" vs. "Good things come to those that wait."
I prefer this one:
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse always gets the cheese!"
"Derp de derp."
You may be thinking of a vendor sht. He's probably using GNU sht, which takes caliber etc from a file of tab (NOT space -- think make!) separated records -- exact syntax available in handy 'info' format.
Frankly it's easier to just use windows and call IFirearmsEx::WGunSystemBulletOperationShootEx32(H
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.