Re:Two possible solutions
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Lawsuits Suck
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This has it's precedents, Can you say "Boston Tea Party", but on a much larger scale, of course.
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Unix will never die. . .another perspective
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The End of Unix?
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While I mentally and spiritually agree with probably all the technical/flexibility/etc merits pointed out here, one of the best guarantees of (L)Unix's future is. ..Yup, Micro(in)S(ert word od choice here).
This really isn't well thought out, just sorta popped in my head and I thought I'd post it. But the bottom line is, if something begins evolving that can crush the current popular paradigms in OS's what are the odds that MS will let it survive? Worst case senerio is that MS buys, or otherwise aquires it in it's younger stages and then procedes to screw it up as they do most things. Of course, that's if they don't just kill it flat out due to pride in their best operating system ever, NT (and kin)*puke*.
The end result of this, I believe, is that only General Purpose OS's that are currently entrenched and have the ability to evolve to meet up and coming issues will be players in the near-moderate future.
BeOS was a niche OS, wasn't a threat. OS-X, well, it's unix (bsd) anyway, but still not a threat. Plan 9, cool but obscure, and still not revolutionary. But if a company (new paradigm Open Source OS's I believe, are exempt from this discussion as MS can't really touch 'em) ever starts to release a ViewPorts 1.0 OS that is a commercial OS with tons of promise, they won't make it.
Anyway, hope this makes a bit of sense, should have thought it out more ; )
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This has it's precedents, Can you say "Boston Tea Party", but on a much larger scale, of course.
G
While I mentally and spiritually agree with probably all the technical/flexibility/etc merits pointed out here, one of the best guarantees of (L)Unix's future is. . .Yup, Micro(in)S(ert word od choice here).
This really isn't well thought out, just sorta popped in my head and I thought I'd post it. But the bottom line is, if something begins evolving that can crush the current popular paradigms in OS's what are the odds that MS will let it survive? Worst case senerio is that MS buys, or otherwise aquires it in it's younger stages and then procedes to screw it up as they do most things. Of course, that's if they don't just kill it flat out due to pride in their best operating system ever, NT (and kin)*puke*.
The end result of this, I believe, is that only General Purpose OS's that are currently entrenched
and have the ability to evolve to meet up and coming issues will be players in the near-moderate future.
BeOS was a niche OS, wasn't a threat. OS-X, well, it's unix (bsd) anyway, but still not a threat. Plan 9, cool but obscure, and still not revolutionary. But if a company (new paradigm Open Source OS's I believe, are exempt from this discussion as MS can't really touch 'em) ever starts to release a ViewPorts 1.0 OS that is a commercial OS with tons of promise, they won't make it.
Anyway, hope this makes a bit of sense, should have thought it out more ; )
G
For all if it, they did spell out a few things that we could do to shore up the installations for idiots. Some really simple stuff too.
G