How much of your knowledge (which you have aquired by leading the development of Gentoo) and what of your knowledge will be used for current en future products of Microsoft?
Yeah, embedded Windows is playing with fire. Please put it in your car, please do all those stupid things. It doesn't matter if I would encourage Microsoft to make their crappy ill product that is so friendly to virusses, they will making it anyway.
But when I know their would be a car that runs embedded GNU/Linux or GNU/FreeBSD (or in the future GNU's HURD) then I would buy a car. Now I simply and boldly refuse to do so.
Some applications are not really qualified to run on a webbesed OS, as in a remote computer for which your computer is like a terminal.
The latency of the network will maybe a lot smalller than it is now but there always be applications which cannot use this latency. If quatum computers ever appear, little latency for distributed processes will disturb much.
For normal office applications, I guess anything will do in the feature. Maybe then even contact lenses are good enough to provide a screen..
And the other thins is privacy.. I think the internet will not change so much. Most of the internet related technology is still old and I think the internet will evolve very slowly.
Untill Microsoft becomes an open source product, we will never able to inspect the quality of their lines of code. We can only judge the reliabillity of their products by it's behaviour, which is horrible in too many ways to describe. I won't take the effort of even start to describe the poor quality of their products. Microsoft has a bad image, and I haven't seen any thing decent, innovative or usable from them. Let them wine over Linux...
I have compiled linux many times. It's very easy customizable (that's why people use embedded linux much more often than embedded "Windows Whatever"). But it's nice to know Microsoft is taking Linux so seriously that they try to give it a bad name... But who cares about Microsoft products anyway, most users just use it because Linux is to knew and technical for them and then wait to switch to something else until they are totally annoyed by virusses.
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How much of your knowledge (which you have aquired by leading the development of Gentoo) and what of your knowledge will be used for current en future products of Microsoft?
Yeah, embedded Windows is playing with fire. Please put it in your car, please do all those stupid things. It doesn't matter if I would encourage Microsoft to make their crappy ill product that is so friendly to virusses, they will making it anyway. But when I know their would be a car that runs embedded GNU/Linux or GNU/FreeBSD (or in the future GNU's HURD) then I would buy a car. Now I simply and boldly refuse to do so.
Some applications are not really qualified to run on a webbesed OS, as in a remote computer for which your computer is like a terminal. The latency of the network will maybe a lot smalller than it is now but there always be applications which cannot use this latency. If quatum computers ever appear, little latency for distributed processes will disturb much. For normal office applications, I guess anything will do in the feature. Maybe then even contact lenses are good enough to provide a screen.. And the other thins is privacy.. I think the internet will not change so much. Most of the internet related technology is still old and I think the internet will evolve very slowly.
Untill Microsoft becomes an open source product, we will never able to inspect the quality of their lines of code. We can only judge the reliabillity of their products by it's behaviour, which is horrible in too many ways to describe. I won't take the effort of even start to describe the poor quality of their products. Microsoft has a bad image, and I haven't seen any thing decent, innovative or usable from them. Let them wine over Linux... I have compiled linux many times. It's very easy customizable (that's why people use embedded linux much more often than embedded "Windows Whatever"). But it's nice to know Microsoft is taking Linux so seriously that they try to give it a bad name... But who cares about Microsoft products anyway, most users just use it because Linux is to knew and technical for them and then wait to switch to something else until they are totally annoyed by virusses.