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A Free XML-Based Operating System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the xml-versus-adam-oh-forget-it dept.

Dotnaught writes "For the past five years, Xcerion has been working on an XML-based Internet operating system (XIOS) that runs inside a Web browser and promises radically reduced development time. To provide developers with an incentive to write for the platform, Xcerion's back-end system is designed to route revenue, either from subscription fees or from ads served to users of free programs, to application authors. Think of it as Google AdSense, except for programmers rather than publishers. Is it absurd to think this poses a threat to Google and Microsoft?"

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  1. A what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    How the hell did this make it on Slashdot?

  2. Re:command line by value_added · · Score: 0, Troll
    The command line is very friendly:
    <command><command-name>grep</command-name><args><a rg>stuff</arg><arg>*</arg></args></command>


    That's nothing.

    Add a requirement for path statements to be defined with a prefixed combination of alphanumerics, colons and escape characters, throw in some voodoo quoting mechanisms, require a regedit for tab command-completion, etc., implement everything (the documentation, included) on an ad hoc basis while dismissing the notion of terminal as something that's quaint or needs reinventing, and you'll really feel like you're being kicked in the monads.

    I kid, of course. It's probably worse.

    > Get Wmi-Object Win32_Bios
    > Cancel or Allow?
    >
  3. Re:Stupid by harry666t · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is the way of thinking of people who were using M$ windoze for too long.

    GUI = OS.

    They should try text mode unix.