I think that point is that if you use a product professionally your know-how worths real money, so any sort of unexpected changes on the software you use may cause you real damages.
I don't that the today story will be problematic for anyone, but I can't avoid to think how weak is my position as developper when I rely on a proprietary technology.
Maybe part of the problem is the lack of standards for many of the actual Internet technology, I mean at w3.org there are clear definitions about the way to create static internet contents (HTML/CSS/CSS2...) but noothing about e.g. video streaming, nothing about vector graphics (I don't think there is a valid alternative to flash if you want to follow this approach) then is clear that proprietary technologies come and fill these voids.
with mac os X a powerbook or an Ibook can also be an option:
most major comercial suites are available (e.g. MS Office, Corel Draw/Paint/Wordperfect, Adobe,...) as well as a very large amount of unix tools, utilities and softs
Many hours of autonomy (I usually have an operativity of 3.5 hours on my powerbook), much more of any other single battery notebook (of course a 1.5Ghz pentium drains more power than a 667mhx ppC)
a very interesting design, that's my personal opinion but usually people are impressed by the metallic look of a poeerbook;)
that's it,
Linux don't need to have a big share to keep moving on,
moreover ten years of Linux are creating a large base of users with a good basis of knowledge of unix while I don't think that most of the people that used windows during the last decades has an idea about how windows register works;)
Spending the last six months on 2K I've senn the BSOD ony a couple of time, but sometime (three times a week) my machine simply reboot without giving any feedback... I think that moving some stuff (e.g. graphic drivers) in the kernel has not made 2K better than NT4.
95 was $**7 that's a fact not an opinion
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I think that point is that if you use a product professionally your know-how worths real money, so any sort of unexpected changes on the software you use may cause you real damages. I don't that the today story will be problematic for anyone, but I can't avoid to think how weak is my position as developper when I rely on a proprietary technology. Maybe part of the problem is the lack of standards for many of the actual Internet technology, I mean at w3.org there are clear definitions about the way to create static internet contents (HTML/CSS/CSS2...) but noothing about e.g. video streaming, nothing about vector graphics (I don't think there is a valid alternative to flash if you want to follow this approach) then is clear that proprietary technologies come and fill these voids.
with mac os X a powerbook or an Ibook can also be an option: most major comercial suites are available (e.g. MS Office, Corel Draw/Paint/Wordperfect, Adobe, ...) as well as a very large amount of unix tools, utilities and softs
Many hours of autonomy (I usually have an operativity of 3.5 hours on my powerbook), much more of any other single battery notebook (of course a 1.5Ghz pentium drains more power than a 667mhx ppC)
a very interesting design, that's my personal opinion but usually people are impressed by the metallic look of a poeerbook ;)
that's it, Linux don't need to have a big share to keep moving on, moreover ten years of Linux are creating a large base of users with a good basis of knowledge of unix while I don't think that most of the people that used windows during the last decades has an idea about how windows register works ;)
Spending the last six months on 2K I've senn the BSOD ony a couple of time, but sometime (three times a week) my machine simply reboot without giving any feedback ... I think that moving some stuff (e.g. graphic drivers) in the kernel has not made 2K better than NT4.
95 was $**7 that's a fact not an opinion
I think you'll never work as diplomat, but basically I agree with you ;)