In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:17:02 +0000
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Saturday 16 December 2006 22:09 \__
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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>> wrote
>> on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:20:01 +0000
>> <2713012.2JcHeTxvbZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> __/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Saturday 16 December 2006 19:21 \__
>>>
>>>> Reality:
>>>>
>>>> http://youtube.com/results?search_query=ps3+linux&search=Search
>>>
>>> Microsoft has already begun ridiculing the PS3 Linux. This is great news.
>>> It means they feel threatened. The last time they reacted in this way it
>>> was the OLPC project which made headlines. They also sent out their
>>> analysts/shills such as Rob E. to spread FUD.
>>>
>>> I would not surprise me if, out of deparation, Microsoft will consider a
>>> Cell port of Windows. They'll call it Winnie-Cell. A Cell server will be
>>> WIMP.
>>>
>>
>> Windows is already running on Orange Phones. I think it's a variant of
>> WinCE but it is Windows.
>>
>> Of course, that's a different form of "cell", but in theory a port from
>> Orange to Cell is at least contemplatable.
>>
>> Also, Linux got to Cell first, and is also on various mobile
>> equipment.
>>
>> We shall see.
>>
>>>
>>> Microsoft no longer feels the Linux pinch. 120 million PS3's (probably
>>> with Linux which will have evolved a lot by then) by 2010 are nothing to
>>> sneeze at. It's no pinch; it's a kick in the arse.
>>>
>>
>> If not a slightly different (and far more painful) anatomical area.
>
> Mr. Boris Yeltsin insists that pinching is done at the back end. However, if
> you insist, we can whistle at Winnie-Cell so that it turns around, or hit it
> from the front... http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_RCvPbA_4
>
Heh...well, I wasn't thinking *quite* that high up (in
either sense). It's a pity it wasn't an egg pie -- I
also doubt it was a custard pie, or even quiche.
(The puns, the puns!)
But welcome to competition, Mr. Gates. :-) Perhaps
now Windows products will recapture the "best of breed"
designation they once had (before Win95).
I'm not *that* hopeful.
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