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What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft?
CanadianMikey asks: "The debate with the business side of computing rages on about the validity of Open Source. Is it good or bad? What is the future of computing? Could it have been different, and where will the 21st century take us? Is Microsoft just the big nail that always gets hammered first and will someone step in to take their place when they are finally taken down?
If Microsoft were to close up shop, who do the readers of Slashdot think would be tomorrow's Microsoft? What about the forgotten windows?"
And we'd be loving it!
... we'd have no idea how bloody good Linux and Mac OSX really are.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
A lot less /. comments. With no microsoft to complain about, half the comments wouldn't have anything to rant about.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
Yikes! That is scary! But not as scary as a world without doors.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
We'd all be running (and enjoying) AmigaOS 8.
There'd be no war, starvation, or crime, and every child would have a pony.
If Windows were to disappear the world would be very, very dark inside.
Well Jim's been dead for more than thirty years... Robby, Ray, and John are still around though. They don't play much anymore.
Or were you talking about ports to games on old Amiga BBSes?
-JemIndeed. There would almost undoubtably be a widespread economic depression. People are stubborn. The masses would just stick with whatever the latest version of Windows was when Microsoft went down. Most people probably wouldn't buy a new computer until they had to, because like you mentioned, they don't want to have to learn how to use another one. Hell, most people barely know how to use Windows, as easy as it is. It would be years before people started buying personal computers again on a large scale. The PC gaming industry would likely never recover. But worst of all? I'd have to get a new email address.
Rufus Dark~~
In the same way fucking that crazy girl down the street reminds you its not good to fuck crazy girls... I suppose
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Microsoft has actually show us the benefit of "standards".
If not for Microsoft's corruption of SLIP and PPP in 1994...
my very own TRIPLE Challenge Handshake Authentication
(CHA CHA CHA) would have ruled the dialup world instead!
Let's see. A world without Microsoft. What would I be complaining about right now. Oh, yeah, I would be talking about the evil empire Apple and how they have a hold on the market.
In the same way fucking that crazy girl down the street reminds you its not good to fuck crazy girls... I suppose
... Just got a letter from an ex-girlfriend...
And God how I need that reminder now and again.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
> You think buildings would be safer if every builder was allowed to "innovate" their own designs?
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:)
Reminds me of that quote off my giant poster on Murphy's Law about Computers
"If engineers built buildings the way programers write code,
the first time a woodpecker came along, it would destroy civilization."
And yes, I am a programmer.
Dude, this is slashdot... You have to be more specific.
What's a girl?