[huskerlug] Re: Thoughts on the Write Brothers and Desktops

Politics, it is all about politics with most of this, as we all know. This
article raises a lot of good points, but we need to think about how it all
goes, we the Linux gifted, are not afraid of the operating system, but there
are people who build the main-stay of the computer using populace who think
that AOL is the most secure ISP with the best service and Linux is this big
beast that they are terrified of. It comes down to the same thing that held
us in the dark ages for a long time, the ignorance of the mainstay of the
users who think Linux, and even Unix are evil unfriendly setups that can
only chug math problems. As SUSE, Red Hat and the others make flavors that
are, for lack of better terms, more idiot proof, then maybe we will see a
full IT renascence, and technology will become something that thrives the
way most Linux fanatics have dreamed of for naught over a decade now.

Just my worthless two cents :-P


~Seann

P.S. Why yes, I Am a newbie to the list...well sort of... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Lundstedt [mailto:clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:38 AM
To: hlug
Subject: [huskerlug] Re: Thoughts on the Write Brothers and Desktops

It might be interesting to actually study whether we are "off course" or
not in the technology industry.  Consider that it takes about 6-9 months
for another iteration of a technology compared to 2-5 years
(conservative) for another iteration of aviation (or any transportation)
technology.  The hard part would be defining a "got to the moon"
objective for IT.  When has IT hit the ultimate goal? Even the moon
landing was not the end of aviation development.

Showing that we are "behind" would go a long way in proving such a
theory (that the DMCA/M$ is hindering IT development).

There are, of course, places where the analogy breaks down.  In 1925
there wasn't a propeller company demanding a single engine configuration
so that it only had to design a single propeller.  (No one complained
since the propeller was included in the plane and you didn't have to
think about it.)  Today we have the majority of software companies
refusing to sell/design software for Mac or Linux, further pigeon-holing
us into a single OS paradigm.  There are outside influences other than
the DMCA/M$ holding us in a single OS world.

Its often a dangerous road to travel, comparing other industries and
technology to the computer industry.  So many things are just
different.  (But I did like the discussion anyway..)

(BTW, when was the last real innovation in the auto industry?  We have
dozens of car makers, and yet the automobile hasn't had any real design
modification in decades.)

Carl
>
> Had the DMCA been in effect in 1980 we'd sill be using the=20
> MAC or perhaps the WinX.X, depending on whose laywers won=20
> the lawsuite that would have evolved.  I don't think it=20
> would have evolved as far as it has which, considering the=20
> XP in relation to the Win 3.11, is still not very far.
>
> =2D-=20
> =2D=20
> Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by=20
> professionals
> GreyGeek
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