Jerry McBride wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Proprietary software will kill PC in 30 years, conference told
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| If proprietary software continues to dominate, within 10 years no one
| will be able to store any file and even view their own content without
| first paying a service provider to see it and the PC as we know it will
| be gone within 30 years.
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http://m-net.net.nz/latest-news/1405/proprietary-software-will-kill-pc-in-30-years-conference-told/1/read.php
30 years? I think it will be more like 4 years or less. If we don't start
doing some SERIOUS DRM, TPM, TC, etc killing... we'll be tied to big
brother a lot sooner than most people think.
Hmmm...thinking back 30 years...1977...home computers didn't really exist.
The explosion probably came in 1980-82. Then there were lots of home
computers (micros: Sinclairs (Timexs), Acorns, Commodores, Ataris, Tandys,
etc) and "business" machines (ACT Sirius, IBM PC, others?). What's it like
now; or even around 2000 (20 years) - home computers and business machines
are all PCs or Macs; the home computers are we knew them are gone (except in
"cult status", "geek" hobby only form).
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