Killer APP
Reading your reply about the games developers made me go hmmm...
If software developers put out a "killer app" and/or great games, that run in an open source environment, then by definition you "...buy the system the application runs on", else it is not a killer app.
You guy love piling on to Microsoft, but don't some of you remember when nothing talked to anything else? Don't you remember what a bully IBM was when they could be? Don't you remember how IBM gouged you for software mainframe licenses that continued as long as you had those ugly beats? At least these two companies gave us some standards!!! Now, nearly anything will talk to most anything else with almost no effort on the user's part. Consumers voted for these two companies products with their dollars. Consumers got what they voted for, some interoperability standards for hardware and software that actually work! IBM for the most part has fallen by the wayside as far as PC's go --- waiting to see how this "on-demand thingy" works out. Perhaps Microsoft will become only a memory of old geezers.
Open source ideas are great! I hope in the long run that it succeeds. But Bill Gates isn't really the devil, (off topic) nor is Karl Rove for that matter. At work I mostly use AIX and Solaris with some Win2K. When I am at home, give me an XP platform for my Far Cry and Half-Life2. When good games are released for Linux, then I'm onboard man... until then, I'm with Bill.
I ran into a similar situation at my doggie day care. I was about to give the lady a credit card, when she started blurting out the problems she had with virus and spyware that became so bad that her PC stopped function. She was babbling on about what her repair person told her, as I put my card back into my wallet and retrieved cash to pay her, deciding then and there that cash would be my transaction media for small business from then on.
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Killer APP Reading your reply about the games developers made me go hmmm... If software developers put out a "killer app" and/or great games, that run in an open source environment, then by definition you "...buy the system the application runs on", else it is not a killer app.
You guy love piling on to Microsoft, but don't some of you remember when nothing talked to anything else? Don't you remember what a bully IBM was when they could be? Don't you remember how IBM gouged you for software mainframe licenses that continued as long as you had those ugly beats? At least these two companies gave us some standards!!! Now, nearly anything will talk to most anything else with almost no effort on the user's part. Consumers voted for these two companies products with their dollars. Consumers got what they voted for, some interoperability standards for hardware and software that actually work! IBM for the most part has fallen by the wayside as far as PC's go --- waiting to see how this "on-demand thingy" works out. Perhaps Microsoft will become only a memory of old geezers. Open source ideas are great! I hope in the long run that it succeeds. But Bill Gates isn't really the devil, (off topic) nor is Karl Rove for that matter. At work I mostly use AIX and Solaris with some Win2K. When I am at home, give me an XP platform for my Far Cry and Half-Life2. When good games are released for Linux, then I'm onboard man... until then, I'm with Bill.
I ran into a similar situation at my doggie day care. I was about to give the lady a credit card, when she started blurting out the problems she had with virus and spyware that became so bad that her PC stopped function. She was babbling on about what her repair person told her, as I put my card back into my wallet and retrieved cash to pay her, deciding then and there that cash would be my transaction media for small business from then on.