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Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future
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.'"
MP: In George Orwell's book, 1984, computer monitors with built-in cameras gave the government near perfect knowledge of its citizen's lives and near perfect control over would-be dissenters. How does open source and open content thwart that kind of stuff?
LL: We were just talking about creativity, but the next step is power, and it's not just the power to create, but the power of self-rule. That's what's really great about all of this stuff. It's a lot harder to imagine a Big Brother in a world where we all have access to the Internet, where we all have access to these tools. A country like, say, China, that does its best to limit what its citizens can do with technology, can only do that at a very high cost, a cost to the government, a cost to the economy.
Ultimately, I think that no government and no economy is going to be to sustain to that kind of control. Totalitarianism is threatened by this kind of open stuff, and in the long run, it's power to the people. You're giving people power not just to create, but power to self rule. That bodes poorly for totalitarianism. Totalitarianism requires control of speech, control of what people know. The antithesis of totalitarianism is open digital technology. Really, it's very pro-freedom. You could try to control it in the long run, as China has, but in the long run, it's gonna fail.
Since when are lefties about self-rule? This "power to the people crap" is what has lead us to mob rule democracy. Our constitution is to protect the individual from "the people." Open source isn't going to do it. What's stopping a totalitarian government from using open source for bad deeds? And the whole "internet will save us" argument is flawed. Many of the lefties that seem to love open source so much are all too eager to invite the government in to protect us from spam and other useless nanny state nonsense. The internet as we know it is almost gone. It will just become another point of control for government regulation. Lefties want the government to protect us from spam and Microsoft and then they wave their hands when the government brings unlimited control and end up enforcing porn and political correctness and every other damn thing.
Why should we take seriously anything that Leo Laporte has to say? He's not involved in the OS community; he's just a TV and radio personality. What, exactly, qualifies him as a pundit on such issues?
...is command lines, meaningless three letter acronyms and pipe scripts with hundreds of flags and switches. well i for one am jumping straight into this revolution. i just smashed my mouse with a hammer and am going to track down a CGA monitor on ebay.
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
Very interesting, very insightful comments...unfortunately we've been hearing the exact same thing for the past 20 years. You're basically regurgitating what the pundits and "experts" have been saying forever. We've yet to see any of these things....
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That's my thoughts anyway. Sometime in the near future, I'll get them blogged down in detail.
No, these are not your thoughts. These are the ideas from about a 1000 different people over the years that have been saying the same things. It's bad when you have to take the work or ideas from others and switch them around to try to make them your own.
You offer nothing new here...move along.
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But, doesn't it worry any of you that Microsoft is currently doing their absolute best to squash out every other OS on the planet?!?
Microsoft is doing their best to create the best product possible. If that means "squash out every other OS on the planet", than no, it doesn't worry me.
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Barring the trolls I'm probably going to get from this, I 'd like to say that Choice is a Good Thing
... I'd really doubt you would use Apple's OS to control anyhting else but a mac .. because we all know that macs are really just sitting in every server room through out this world.
... as much as I like using textpad. tools like eclipse even netbeans are just so much more efficent (if even just for the library look ups) that there is no reason NOT to use a gui.
Mac OSX is a very slow OS.. because of it's true monolithic approach it's no where near as fast as windows will be.
As for power users/admins/developers
For developers
regardless there are benefits of the command line and yuor examples really suck and you need to learn how to use windows properly.