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Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future

Posted by Zonk on from the gaze-into-my-crystal-ball dept.

TractorJector writes "In a well-written interview with Mad Penguin, techmeister Leo Laporte (formerly of G4/TechTV fame) discusses his vision of the future of proprietary and open platforms: 'I think there's a lot of hope for Linux, although I don't think that Linux is the answer. I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion. It might be BSD, it might be Linux, it might be some third thing. But UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail.'"

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  1. Well written? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "In a well-written interview with Mad Penguin..."

    "'But UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail.'"

    Yep, seems pretty well-written to me ;-)

  2. Ho ho ho by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail
    That's right because, as we all know, the solution that is technically the best will always win out in the marketplace...
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  3. I'd say ... by hawkeye_82 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the future is the HURD. Even in the future, the future will still be the HURD.

  4. The irony to MS blowing his argument away... by gatkinso · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...is that back in the day when really only technically savvy types owned or operated computers, is when MS gained their stranglehold on the market.

    We would like to think MS somehow bamboozeled the teeming masses, but that is BS. It was us they bamboozled with MS-DOS of all things.

    We did this to ourselves.

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