__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Wednesday 27 December 2006 13:46 \__
> Dec 27 2006 12:43 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Virtualization is making obsolete the notion of
>> having one big monolithic operating system ..
>
> Given the low cost of x86 hardware I can't see the huge benefits here.
> Is this a case of 'new' VM washes whiter than 'old' whatever. The same
> with dual/quad cores. Who cares except for the chip sellers. Now if
> only they could innovate away, spam, viruses and page violations.
Posted a short while ago.
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-December/010122.html
SPAM is causing the blogsphere a lot of trouble (and costing money) this
Christmas.
More on SPAM:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-December/010123.html
Everyone suffers. The Web is getting clogged up because of botnets. It is
/NOT/ just E-mail. The numbers are phenomenal. Biblical scales...
>> Daniel Lyons is typically an anti-Free software guy, some have argued.
>
> Like the utterances of Fuddie, Lyons pronounsments can be taken as a
> Bellwether on where Redmond would like to go. In this case since the
> NOVL agreement he can stop knocking Linux
>
> "Long seen as adversaries, Linux and Windows are in fact complementary,
> and most customers don't have a religious feeling about either of
> them."
>
> Yet again we have a pro MS propagandist telling US what to think. But
> then again this is aimed at the average clueless PHB. The adversarial
> position was all one sided, Baller refering to the cancer and bill
> secretly financing SCO. When he says complementary I assume this means
> 'Linux' stay out of our core business.
>
> "They want both. Novell and Microsoft were the first to recognize that
> when they made their recent peace pact; both will benefit from that
> move in the year ahead"
>
> Just a change of tack by the vole ..
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