__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Saturday 16 December 2006 22:09 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
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