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Y'know, Linspire may actually do it
Fri, 08/10/2007 - 07:40 — jon
Y'know, I think Linspire may be banging the right rocks together:
http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php
The ONLY recoil-in-horror things I could find about Linspire were:
* FAT32 default file system - what the FUCK !?
* Partnerships with the Devil - but Apple have done the same thing with the beast (Microsoft), and are tearing m$ apart by doing so.
I predicted a couple of things a few years ago:
* Winblows would end up running as a process in Linux
- this has already long happened.
* Linux would end up doing things impossible in Winblows, or things even considered downright impossible period
- this has looooooonnnnnnnng since happened
* M$ would end up writing apps for Linux
- after reading the Linspire details, and this: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/collab/linspire/customer_covenant.mspx
I think even this is starting to happen.....
But then I read THIS and nearly came in my pants:
http://www.transgaming.com/ - look up Cedega
Now there's a VMGL api for Xen, soon VMWare......
Its all happening so fast its literally making my head spin.
Its going to be all-out war......between LINUX DISTROS......as Apple starts to increasingly go "Um, Guys, I'm still here.....!" and Bill G. runs for the hills (he's already packing his bags, and after X billion (he'll probably get away with a few hundred mil after all his bills are paid) - I for one can't blame him for opting out at this point).
FAAAAAAAAAAARRRK.
I had to bump this, so two
I had to bump this, so two years later we can judge the predictions.
> Y'know, I think Linspire may be banging the right rocks together:
In 2009 Linspire is no longer around, the company sold out to Xandros and their OS was discontinued.
> * Winblows would end up running as a process in Linux
> - this has already long happened.
Already happened? Did anyone really believe that Microsoft was going to disregard years of development on the (really solid, actually) NT kernel and re-engineer Windows as a Linux shell, nothing but a glorified version of Wine, making the whole multi-billion dollar Microsoft company subject to the whims of the Linux kernel devlopers and the confusion of the Linux community, throwing away all of its investment in Windows and Office and Exchange in order to restart as a Linux company, destroying the most successful software company ever, and taking a huge leap backwards in technology for no conceiveable benefit to the company, its investors, or its users?
> as Apple starts to increasingly go "Um, Guys, I'm still here.....!"
Hahahaha then a little thing called iPhone happened and the company has never looked better. iPhone and iPod touch have already achieved 70% of Linux's market share in just a short couple of years. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid...
> Its all happening so fast its literally making my head spin.
Looks the "Year of the Linux Desktop" failed to materialize again. Maybe next time, eh?
No.
No.