__/ [ larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 12 December 2006 14:54 \__
> Lets be theoretical, lets say some major world disaster strikes, (war,
> meteor strike, alins ravage the earth, etc.). The world infrastructure
> is in shambles probably take a decade to get things back to normal, but
> fortunaltely for most of us the power still works and our computers can
> operate.
>
> How would OSs survive for the next 10 years.
>
> Windows - if Seattle was hit, it's a goner, not much point in trying to
> activate the OS or expect any OS or MS program updates in the
> forseeable future.
>
> MacOS - Ok it fares a bit better intially, there is no forced
> activation, but it also has a single point where the source is stored.
> (limited hardware support too, gotta have a Mac.)
>
> Linux, - You probably know where this is going, it has no activation
> requirement and even better it has readily available well documented
> source code. In fact most towns probably have sone guy living there
> with a full distro with source and binaries in theier CD collection.
> It runs on most systems even aging old pentium boxes.
>
> This robustness also goes for most GNU/Linux and other OSS apps like
> Open Office, the source is there. So if we need to make changes (due
> to the mutations caused by that alien weapon) we could.
Strange. Deep inside I always knew that Novell were from Venus.
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