__/ [billwg] on Friday 14 October 2005 14:40 \__
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dio4gf$3f8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Slashdot, minutes ago:
>>
>>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/13/2219236&tid=201&tid=1&tid=218
>>
>> The year: 2020
>>
>> "When Linux began to hit the desktop, 20 years ago this month, it was
>> considered nothing more than a free operating environment that had
>> arrived
>> late to the party, well behind the industry leader Microsoft. Now,
>> it's the
>> operating system used on nearly 95 percent of all the spaceships,
>> desktops
>> and notebooks sold worldwide. Take a look at Linux past and present,
>> and
>> what lies ahead in the future, including an interview with Mr. Linus
>> Torvalds himself."
>>
> Roy tries to re-write history, presumably to shade the sluggish history
> of linux towards a brighter tone, but linux will have to muster it's
> reply by 2011 if it is to meet the 20 year criteria.
>
> http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php
>
> Particularly if you want to claim Windows really started with Win 1.0!
> Windows started, as most people know, with 3.0. Everything before that
> was just fiddling around and wasn't in the consumer product category at
> all.
Truth and false are often defined by whatever suits your arguments. Thus,
the interpretation of the situation is merely an illusion. Windows 3.0
marks the beginning of large-scale piracy and a corporation that turns a
blind eye. Some suspect they continue to do so:
* http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/159254&tid=211
* http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=30941&category=main
Best advertisement is often free experience which leads to dependability or
attachment. Speaking of which, what better method for dependability than
proprietary formats and lack of exporters...?
Roy
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