well.. i don't know if the goal is to first have every corporate ms-office-user switched, or - world domination - have every other user switched to linux.
linux will thrive, because it's free in every sense. and appropriate applications with appropriate user-interfaces will outrun - in numbers of users and devices not in revenue maybe - closed operating systems. can you say "embeded" or "asia, the east, south america, africa and the rest of the world" or "consumer device".
This sounds promising.. $200'000'000 is quite some money. now what to do with them in order to complete our universe of free software ?
Microsoft gave us the answer: look at their microsoft.net/whitepaper, read how they plan to change the world, and then, let's sit together and thinker how we, the people, can make something better, something worth living. We need free, standardized solutions for the following areas:
A Privacy/Identity Framework A Client/Server solution for identifing people in a secure manner, where *we* control our privacy. This is a must for serious e-commerce, e-governemt.
Building Blocks for Net-Applications Tomorrows Net will be in the center of tomorrows society. Connected by mobiles, and a myriad of other devices, we will communicate, deal and live together digitally to a great extend. And we do not want to let a single corporate (or governmental) entity control how things will work.
Governmental Tools The more we "live" on net, the greater will be the need for some control - that's what the government was for the old economy. In the new economy we want to define how this control works, who controls whom, what's right and what's not. This all depends on the infrastructure.
That's a lot, I know. And all the Biggies (Microsoft, AOL, Nokia, Media, TelCo's, etc.) will be fighting for defining the standards of the tomorrows net-world. We have to act now, in order to define our standards - you do know why, don't you?
Well, the problem with such certifications is, that they are worthless to HR, if they are not standardized. MSCE is just the cert to look for, if you look for windows people. So in order for linux to reach the buiz world, there ought to be standard linux certifications, HR can trust. and it's all in the linux communities interest, that these cerfications actually are not just "bunk", but certify you to be able to cope with a linux system. if they are just "bunk", there will be a lot of certified linux administrators around, who are not worthy login in as root-users...
of course the best way to go would be some open linux certification, some online skill tests, free of course, so that the linux community can decide what's important in order to understand linux, manage a webserver, etc.
and then, when people with those certifications prove that they are worth their money, the certifications are not just "bunk" anymore, they mean something.
now think of this: $12.5 billions where spent on the "Marshall Plan", which are some $100 billions in todays dollars. I don't know what todays estimates about the y2k-expenditures wordwide are, but I saw them around $500 - $3000 billions. so we just have the tenfold economical booster here, I guess Keynes would kinda think that's pretty cool. just my 2 cents on those 100'000'000'000'000 cents spent for y2k..
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ouch, I've been hit by a reference - again!
it's not funny. I spent hours today because of PHPs whimpy OO implementation.
I swear, linux zealots insist that monopolies are wrong and people have choices for the OS they run, but they want linux to be the only choice.
Not really. A monopoly in the OS market is the easiest way to go and does have huge economic benefits. That's why windows has 95% market share.
So: choice is good, but choice can live on in a unified, open monopolistic operating system. diversity is probably too expensive..
please be gentle with the site :-)
http://www.macminute.com/
The press converence is starting right now in cupertino..
anyone knows where to get up to date info????
well.. i don't know if the goal is to first have every corporate ms-office-user switched, or - world domination - have every other user switched to linux.
linux will thrive, because it's free in every sense. and appropriate applications with appropriate user-interfaces will outrun - in numbers of users and devices not in revenue maybe - closed operating systems. can you say "embeded" or "asia, the east, south america, africa and the rest of the world" or "consumer device".
yup. time will tell.
sn.
Microsoft gave us the answer: look at their microsoft.net/whitepaper, read how they plan to change the world, and then, let's sit together and thinker how we, the people, can make something better, something worth living. We need free, standardized solutions for the following areas:
- A Privacy/Identity Framework
- Building Blocks for Net-Applications
- Governmental Tools
That's a lot, I know. And all the Biggies (Microsoft, AOL, Nokia, Media, TelCo's, etc.) will be fighting for defining the standards of the tomorrows net-world. We have to act now, in order to define our standards - you do know why, don't you?A Client/Server solution for identifing people in a secure manner, where *we* control our privacy. This is a must for serious e-commerce, e-governemt.
Tomorrows Net will be in the center of tomorrows society. Connected by mobiles, and a myriad of other devices, we will communicate, deal and live together digitally to a great extend. And we do not want to let a single corporate (or governmental) entity control how things will work.
The more we "live" on net, the greater will be the need for some control - that's what the government was for the old economy. In the new economy we want to define how this control works, who controls whom, what's right and what's not. This all depends on the infrastructure.
Well, the problem with such certifications is, that they are worthless to HR, if they are not standardized. MSCE is just the cert to look for, if you look for windows people. So in order for linux to reach the buiz world, there ought to be standard linux certifications, HR can trust. and it's all in the linux communities interest, that these cerfications actually are not just "bunk", but certify you to be able to cope with a linux system. if they are just "bunk", there will be a lot of certified linux administrators around, who are not worthy login in as root-users...
of course the best way to go would be some open linux certification, some online skill tests, free of course, so that the linux community can decide what's important in order to understand linux, manage a webserver, etc.
and then, when people with those certifications prove that they are worth their money, the certifications are not just "bunk" anymore, they mean something.
hum?
now think of this: $12.5 billions where spent on the "Marshall Plan", which are some $100 billions in todays dollars. I don't know what todays estimates about the y2k-expenditures wordwide are, but I saw them around $500 - $3000 billions. so we just have the tenfold economical booster here, I guess Keynes would kinda think that's pretty cool. just my 2 cents on those 100'000'000'000'000 cents spent for y2k..