*Free* is Linux claim to marketshare. Linus is going to have to obsolete old solutions with something other than price. Many, many mortals before Linus have predicted the movement of markets... and were wrong.
Steve Jobs ~1993 predicted monolithic applications would move to component paradigms. Users simply load features needed, when they need it. Rulers, dictionaries, editors, etc... are simply an *install* away. Bad mesenger, you're right.
Dependancy upon web-based apps is not going to happen in the business sector. Productivity apps stay desktop bound. Sure prices could crash but why? Intuit is an excellent example of a marginal application upgrade with added new functionality. These apps are now cross-marketing vehicles more than productivity tools. Smart money has these *old* apps repurposed.
Embedded? SmartQuicken? People are going to buy into smartcards, BIG! It doesn't hold that *free* can crash the rest of capitalism.
Is there room in the Open community for a commercial GUI vendor? Would a commercial GUI, OpenSourced, galvanize the focus of Linux at the desktop level? At what point do all the pioneers unhitch their penguins from the Linux train and settle on one winner GUI? Are there any past commercial GUI's if Opensourced you'd consider "good" for Linux?
Computer's tasked to filter Reality _are_, indeed, in control of the human at the other end of the technology. Air Traffic Controllers, fly-by-wire F-16 pilots, ABS equipped drivers and Internet posters all interact via computer. Computer-augmented realities already affect human behavior.
To the extent technologies *extend* man's abilities, people _will_ choose a higher lifeform, even if AI UA or just augmented. There's no ethical/moral boundary for computer technology. Expect anything that can, will happen in the Future.
...forget the politics of education. Married to an educator, having sampled 4 states (UT, IA, CA, NY) educational systems and a close relative as State Commissioner of Education, the existing American educational system is unquatifiable. What American's do with their children before they reach school age is far more important to learning. When America recognizes the value of early role modeling, early exposure and positive reinforcement to defining children's learning style, schools will be able to build on better foundations.
StarOffice open sourced nice. Sun paid $14 million to take off-the-market a competing productivity suite from LightHouse Design.
O-O written in Obj-C, using OPENSTEP (open spec) API's, Open Source community should liberate this suite of applications. Wordproc, spreadsheet, flowcharting, outlining and presentation graphics, the LightHouse suite was very cool&
Why opensource a wordproc when you can ask for the entire suite?
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*Free* is Linux claim to marketshare. Linus is going to have to obsolete old solutions with something other than price. Many, many mortals before Linus have predicted the movement of markets... and were wrong.
Steve Jobs ~1993 predicted monolithic applications would move to component paradigms. Users simply load features needed, when they need it. Rulers, dictionaries, editors, etc... are simply an *install* away. Bad mesenger, you're right.
Dependancy upon web-based apps is not going to happen in the business sector. Productivity apps stay desktop bound. Sure prices could crash but why? Intuit is an excellent example of a marginal application upgrade with added new functionality. These apps are now cross-marketing vehicles more than productivity tools. Smart money has these *old* apps repurposed.
Embedded? SmartQuicken? People are going to buy into smartcards, BIG! It doesn't hold that *free* can crash the rest of capitalism.
Is there room in the Open community for a commercial GUI vendor?
Would a commercial GUI, OpenSourced, galvanize the focus of Linux at the desktop level?
At what point do all the pioneers unhitch their penguins from the Linux train and settle on one winner GUI?
Are there any past commercial GUI's if Opensourced you'd consider "good" for Linux?
-Rex Riley
Computer's tasked to filter Reality _are_, indeed, in control of the human at the other end of the technology. Air Traffic Controllers, fly-by-wire F-16 pilots, ABS equipped drivers and Internet posters all interact via computer. Computer-augmented realities already affect human behavior.
To the extent technologies *extend* man's abilities, people _will_ choose a higher lifeform, even if AI UA or just augmented. There's no ethical/moral boundary for computer technology. Expect anything that can, will happen in the Future.
...forget the politics of education. Married to an educator, having sampled 4 states (UT, IA, CA, NY) educational systems and a close relative as State Commissioner of Education, the existing American educational system is unquatifiable. What American's do with their children before they reach school age is far more important to learning. When America recognizes the value of early role modeling, early exposure and positive reinforcement to defining children's learning style, schools will be able to build on better foundations.
StarOffice open sourced nice. Sun paid $14 million to take off-the-market a competing productivity suite from LightHouse Design.
O-O written in Obj-C, using OPENSTEP (open spec) API's, Open Source community should liberate this suite of applications. Wordproc, spreadsheet, flowcharting, outlining and presentation graphics, the LightHouse suite was very cool&
Why opensource a wordproc when you can ask for the entire suite?
-r