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Re: Article: What will happen in IT in 2007?

  • Subject: Re: Article: What will happen in IT in 2007?
  • From: Snit <SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:06:30 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source
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"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
3643521.i7TzCR70gS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/31/06 2:36 PM:

> __/ [ Snit ] on Sunday 31 December 2006 21:25 \__
> 
>> "Philip" <me@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>> UEVlh.27995$hI.3249@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/31/06 2:08 PM:
>> 
>>> Snit wrote:
>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=763
>>>>     -----
>>>>     4. By the end of the year the OpenSolaris
>>>>     community will be widely recognised as larger and
>>>>     more active than the Linux community -and every
>>>>     competing OS developer community except
>>>>     Microsoft's will have copied the key ideas
>>>>     including its organisational structure, the core
>>>>     provisions in the community development license,
>>>>     and Solaris specific technologies including ZFS
>>>>     and Dtrace.
>>>>     -----
>>>> 
>>>> Hmmmmmm... any thoughts on that?
>>>> 
>>>> Of note, also, is number 1:
>>>>     -----
>>>>     Vista will make billions for Microsoft - driven by
>>>>     the warm embrace of those who hated the MacOS X
>>>>     interface when Microsoft didn't sell it;
>>>>     -----
>>>> 
>>>> I just find that funny.  :)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sort of like the tabloid psychics... outrageous prediction to draw an
>>> audience
>> 
>> Well, the number one prediction is likely to come true... to an extent.  I
>> doubt Vista will be a good copy of OS X, no matter how hard MS tried.  :)
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> For the last time, Vista is /NOT/ a copy of Mac OS X. Even the Times says it
> ain't the case. <tongue in cheek />
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8  (short video)
> 
> Well, okay, okay... but it must be some kind of coincidence. I /think/...
> 
> The Redmond Copying Machine?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
> | "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
> | to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
> | surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
> | bickering, which will proably never end.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
> | he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
> | agreed not to publish his name.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
> | application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
> | iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
> | 
> | "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
> | Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
> | grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
> | iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
> | 
> | "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
> | creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
> | software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
> `----
> 
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/

Amazing... just amazing.

-- 
? The tilde in an OS X path does *not* mean "the hard drive only"
? Things which are not the same are not "identical"
? The word "ouch" is not a sure sign of agreement.




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