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The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the heard-this-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Few in the open source community have welcomed online applications like Google Docs with open arms, but Keir Thomas claims he's found a way forward — and it's one that involves exclusively open source. He reckons BIOS-based operating systems are the future, because they will alter the way users think about their computers. FTA: 'The key breakthrough is ideological: BIOS-based operating systems demote the operating system to just another function of the hardware. It breaks the old mindset of the operating system being a distinct platform, or an end in itself. The operating system becomes part of the overall computing appliance. This allows the spotlight to focus on online applications.'"

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  1. Or by oldhack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Future might be me winning lottery, and retiring with lots hookers and blackjack.

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    1. Re:Or by angelwolf71885 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      frgit the kookes and the black jack and just give me the booz and money

    2. Re:Or by JWSmythe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

          They aren't really hookers, when you have your own private island casino, and they are your concubines.

          That's a great life plan. You'll be satisfied whenever you want to be, and be able to turn a profit from the gamblers who come to your island to lose their savings.

          Excuse me, I have to go buy a few lottery tickets right now.

       

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  2. The Future Might Be ACs, Bitches, and Frosties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    F
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    Bitches

  3. fi85t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    our abilityU To

  4. Re:This is true for some value of by haroldpatterson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You do realize that every one of the things you list require you to have a local, native program running to use it right? Which kind of goes completely against the ideas put forth in the article which are about everything running out of your browser from some online service provider on a thin client.

  5. Re:Online is the coms, not the content. by pentalive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yay! Yay!

    Please mod this important point up. (I have mod points but I have already posted in this thread)

    Do *not* trust someone else to have the only copy of any data you hold dear!