Consumers have for the most part benefited, PCs are cheaper and better than they've ever been.
Yes, they have. And yes, they are, but there's nothing in the "ecosystem" that relates directly to the consequences you mentioned. I, for one, can see the price of a pre-installed OS PC being potentially lower than the classic preintalled MS OS PC.
What I don't like about this, is that MS is spreading FUD all over the place, and we're the ones to clean it up. I believe GPL software and proprietary software can exist, and even compete, people should be able to have the choice, but MS is a monopoly, and will try to remain so.
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Consumers have for the most part benefited, PCs are cheaper and better than they've ever been. Yes, they have. And yes, they are, but there's nothing in the "ecosystem" that relates directly to the consequences you mentioned. I, for one, can see the price of a pre-installed OS PC being potentially lower than the classic preintalled MS OS PC. What I don't like about this, is that MS is spreading FUD all over the place, and we're the ones to clean it up. I believe GPL software and proprietary software can exist, and even compete, people should be able to have the choice, but MS is a monopoly, and will try to remain so.
Kernel compiled in 1 ms, UT starting in 0.5, a vast RAM space to put whatever crap i can think of.
I got to r00t me one o' these!
I think I just had an orgasm...
With all that exotic hardware, how do you think it will react?
The guys on kernel dev are going to have to work a good deal to support that. Anyway, I wonder what its average uptime will be.