VHS has been dying for years. The death progressed slowly at first, but of late, it has taken a turn for the worse and is nearly complete. The death of VHS has followed several stages.
Suicide is Painless
In 2000, chief *VHS developer Matt Damon left the project after penning a long, meandering suicide note, loosely based on a novel by renowned playwright Buzz Aldrin.
FreeVHS used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
Netcraft Weighs In
Not long after Matt's suicide, the United Nations Commission for Wresting Control of the DNS Root Servers from the Imperialist United States ("UN-USA")'s Netcraft project weighed in with its final judgement. In typical Netcraft fashion, the writer kept to the facts and looked to the numbers:
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *VHS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *VHS community when IDC confirmed that *VHS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *VHS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *VHS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *VHS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *VHS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *VHS because *VHS is dying. Things are looking very bad for *VHS. As many of us are already aware, *VHS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeVHS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeVHS developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeVHS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenVHS leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenVHS. How many users of NetVHS are there? Let's see. The number of OpenVHS versus NetVHS posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetVHS users. VHS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetVHS posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of VHS/OS. A recent article put FreeVHS at about 80 percent of the *VHS market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeVHS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeVHS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeVHS went out of business and was taken over by VHSI who sell another troubled OS. Now VHSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *VHS has steadily declined in market share. *VHS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *VHS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante
spend its money on developing a Mac OS X clone instead of on legal battles with Apple. Some of the bits and pieces are already publicly available, that would of been a much wiser way to compete with Apple. I personally would love for the Mac OS to remain exclusively on Apple's own hardware.
I have Windows in a VM not because I need games, but because there are some apps I need that Wine currently doesn't run. I do file bug reports and test them with every new release of Wine, but nothing yet. A lot of us use Windows for more than jsut gaming, and we are who are really locked in.
Windows Mobile is not everywhere, Windows Mobile is on a bridge to nowhere! The iPhone has more worldwide market after a mere 2 years, WinMo had over a decade headstart, since it was called WinCE or whatever, and is still irrelevant. Blackberry dominates in NA, Symbian dominates globally, and Android is going to bite into WinMo's market share before anything else!
You are quite wrong on Chrome, Opera and Safari. I suggest you give them another try. Latest beta of Chrome is very stable, and has more features than earlier betas. Safari on Windows was highly unstable, until version 3.1, then it became on par with any Windows browser in terms of stability. Opera is still around, has some very unique features, and it is my second favorite browser.
And one more thing, you can install Konqueror on Gnome, give it a try, the latest version has improved compatibility with the most websites out there.
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Linux and Solaris count towards less than 5% of the market. Sun did the smart thing by bringing it to the mass OS market, instead of delaying it. If they delayed it, they'd have lost their window of entry, and maybe lost the market entirely to Adobe AIR.
On Windows and OS X, there aren't too much wasted effort. GNU/Linux has a dozen window managers, file managers, audio libraries, widget toolkits, etc.. If the community can focus on one thing and do it really well, GNU/Linux would be doing much much better in terms of available software quality which will reflect on more market share.
a few porno pop-ups big deal, close them and move on with your life! it's just like with Janet Jackson milk shake, the whole nation overreacted!
I'm embarrassed by stuff like this! why can't we be like one of them cool European countries, where people aren't too crazy about Jesus and there isn't a war on sex?
Did you try it with the latest beta of Firefox with TraceMonkey turned on? The new engine in Fx 3.1 is supposed to be faster than V8, and V8 is the fastest JavaScript engine right now. http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/
horrible at JavaScript, HTML and standard compliance
With Firefox, Opera and Chrome why would a sane person even want to use IE?
IE still trails almost every other browser in JavaScript performance, try it for yourself.
http://nontroppo.org/timer/progressive_raytracer.html
I refuse to use Silverlight or Moonlight. Microsoft has no obligation to ensure 100% compatibility between Silverlight and Moonlight, and Moonlight will always be playing catchup to Silverlight.
And once Microsoft destroyed Flash on Windows, there very little chance of it cooperating with Moonlight developers, there is no incentive anymore, and basically Silverlight will become another lock-in mechanism to lock people into Windows.
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the imports are as guilty, it's not only the domestics who make and market SUVs.
from it's cultural richness to its school girls and robots
just be in the lookout for -and avoid if possible- tentacle rape!
VHS has been dying for years. The death progressed slowly at first, but of late, it has taken a turn for the worse and is nearly complete. The death of VHS has followed several stages.
Suicide is Painless
In 2000, chief *VHS developer Matt Damon left the project after penning a long, meandering suicide note, loosely based on a novel by renowned playwright Buzz Aldrin.
FreeVHS used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
Netcraft Weighs In
Not long after Matt's suicide, the United Nations Commission for Wresting Control of the DNS Root Servers from the Imperialist United States ("UN-USA")'s Netcraft project weighed in with its final judgement. In typical Netcraft fashion, the writer kept to the facts and looked to the numbers:
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *VHS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *VHS community when IDC confirmed that *VHS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *VHS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *VHS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *VHS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *VHS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *VHS because *VHS is dying. Things are looking very bad for *VHS. As many of us are already aware, *VHS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeVHS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeVHS developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeVHS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenVHS leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenVHS. How many users of NetVHS are there? Let's see. The number of OpenVHS versus NetVHS posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetVHS users. VHS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetVHS posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of VHS/OS. A recent article put FreeVHS at about 80 percent of the *VHS market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeVHS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeVHS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeVHS went out of business and was taken over by VHSI who sell another troubled OS. Now VHSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *VHS has steadily declined in market share. *VHS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *VHS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante
Just bought the book, one of the best books I've ever read!
Didn't IBM lose its Desktop and Laptop business? The IBM PC clones helped propel Microsoft and Intel, not IBM!
how would Psystar manage to get Microsoft to sue it? by buying Vista and installing it on its hardware?
spend its money on developing a Mac OS X clone instead of on legal battles with Apple.
Some of the bits and pieces are already publicly available, that would of been a much wiser way to compete with Apple.
I personally would love for the Mac OS to remain exclusively on Apple's own hardware.
I have Windows in a VM not because I need games, but because there are some apps I need that Wine currently doesn't run. I do file bug reports and test them with every new release of Wine, but nothing yet.
A lot of us use Windows for more than jsut gaming, and we are who are really locked in.
Office 2007 actually installs and run here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDmc4fG2AJM and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48SjVdUTwdo
languages like Haskell, Scheme, Lisp or Prolog?
easier to learn, if you ask me.
freedom means different things to different people
Windows Mobile is not everywhere, Windows Mobile is on a bridge to nowhere!
The iPhone has more worldwide market after a mere 2 years, WinMo had over a decade headstart, since it was called WinCE or whatever, and is still irrelevant.
Blackberry dominates in NA, Symbian dominates globally, and Android is going to bite into WinMo's market share before anything else!
notepad.exe
I'm posting to let you all know that I don't care!
j/k C the way it is
You are quite wrong on Chrome, Opera and Safari. I suggest you give them another try.
Latest beta of Chrome is very stable, and has more features than earlier betas.
Safari on Windows was highly unstable, until version 3.1, then it became on par with any Windows browser in terms of stability.
Opera is still around, has some very unique features, and it is my second favorite browser.
And one more thing, you can install Konqueror on Gnome, give it a try, the latest version has improved compatibility with the most websites out there.
Linux and Solaris count towards less than 5% of the market. Sun did the smart thing by bringing it to the mass OS market, instead of delaying it. If they delayed it, they'd have lost their window of entry, and maybe lost the market entirely to Adobe AIR.
On Windows and OS X, there aren't too much wasted effort. GNU/Linux has a dozen window managers, file managers, audio libraries, widget toolkits, etc..
If the community can focus on one thing and do it really well, GNU/Linux would be doing much much better in terms of available software quality which will reflect on more market share.
program right down on the bare metal.
a few porno pop-ups big deal, close them and move on with your life!
it's just like with Janet Jackson milk shake, the whole nation overreacted!
I'm embarrassed by stuff like this! why can't we be like one of them cool European countries, where people aren't too crazy about Jesus and there isn't a war on sex?
Did you try it with the latest beta of Firefox with TraceMonkey turned on?
The new engine in Fx 3.1 is supposed to be faster than V8, and V8 is the fastest JavaScript engine right now.
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/
horrible at JavaScript, HTML and standard compliance With Firefox, Opera and Chrome why would a sane person even want to use IE? IE still trails almost every other browser in JavaScript performance, try it for yourself. http://nontroppo.org/timer/progressive_raytracer.html
I refuse to use Silverlight or Moonlight. Microsoft has no obligation to ensure 100% compatibility between Silverlight and Moonlight, and Moonlight will always be playing catchup to Silverlight. And once Microsoft destroyed Flash on Windows, there very little chance of it cooperating with Moonlight developers, there is no incentive anymore, and basically Silverlight will become another lock-in mechanism to lock people into Windows.
.. but are they running genuine Windows?
You left out Jesus, after all Jesus was an American.