____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 March 2008 10:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 22:28 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> DOSBox evokes nostalgia
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| With the thump of a synthesizer board and pixelated figures animating the
>>>>| screen, nostalgia sets in. Do you remember the era of frizz, mullets, and
>>>>| the lone arcade machine in the corner café? With DOSBox, a free open
>>>>| source DOS emulator, arcade legends like Golden Axe, Bubble Bobble, and
>>>>| Street Fighter are brought to life again on your modern PC.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2206
>>>>
>>>> Not news, but the screenshots are moving. While Vista kills old
>>>> applications, Linux with Wine keep many of them alive.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you notice that they did their testing on linux 2.6 kernel and
>>> Windows XP? No mention of Vista.
>>>
>>> After providing the run-down of supported platforms (BSDs, BeOS, OS/2,
>>> Mac plus the above), they then say:
>>>
>>> "For Ubuntu user you can simply use apt-get or synaptic to install
>>> DOSBox"
>>>
>>> Well, it's taken around 5 years or more, but finally, the ease of
>>> package management for Linux systems is coming to the fore.
>>
>> They are right to ignore Vista.
>>
>> Vista is likely to be skipped by many, but whatever comes after Vista,
>> Microsoft still seems unsure about it. They have hardly begun development
>> based on what I have read (must fix Vista first in order for it to evolve
>> safely). Windows 7, which may come in the next decade, will be developed in
>> India. This might save Microsoft some money (it only has around $20 billion
>> in the bank, which is unimpressive, with few hard assets to brag about).
>>
>> Remember: the thing to address now is Microsoft's attempt to tax Linux with
>> software patents and sellouts like Novell. Windows is likely to be passe...
>> on devices, servers and last but not least on the desktop (Apple and Linux
>> will share that carcass). Microsoft wants to teach innocent kids about the
>> imaginary property so that it can charge money for imaginary things like
>> ideas used by Cox, Torvalds and others to write an excellent program.
>>
>
> There is no way that Microsoft can afford to develop another operating
> system, indeed, I don't think that we'll see another proprietary OS
> developed again, ever. The cost of doing so is so enormous now that
> it's arrived in "natural monopoly" territory. Only collaborative
> development is going to bring further OS development to the world.
> Should Microsoft be foolish enough to really try to write a Windows 7,
> then that will surely be the last thing that they do. More probably, they
> might attempt an Apple, and see if they can get a BSD flavour running,
> but I think that they might need to buy the Cedega guys too in order to
> get any kind of windows legacy application compatibility.
>
> Worse than that, I very much doubt that by the time they've done all
> this, there'll be much of a market left for them. Linux dominates the
> super-computing market, it's growing into the commercial server space at
> a fantastic rate, well ahead of Microsoft, it shares the smartphone space
> with Symbian, and it dominates (in fact, created) the low-power mobility
> and server space (Excito Bubba, Elonex, Asus Eee, Dell, HP etc. etc.).
>
> By the time Microsoft have anything ready, pretty much everyone will
> have moved to openoffice.org, mysql and linux-based mobility machines,
> firefox and so on. How, exactly, are Microsoft going to /sell licences/
> in such a space? Who would buy them? Why?
>
> Microsoft need to self-reinvent, just like IBM had to. They need to look
> at how to use their new development capabilities in India to migrate to
> a support-house for foss systems. They will find plenty of pro-Microsoft
> CIOs out there who would happily go to MS for their support of FOSS.
>
> The Yahoo! purchase is entirely the wrong direction.
They sometimes get caught acknowledging this too. But they know they'll perish
without Yahoo, so they have to show investors that they respond by changing.
They have a cannibalisation dilemma (e.g. how to move people from the Office
cash cow to free Web-based Office while maintaining the same revenue,
__without Cooking the Books__).
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~~ Best of wishes
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