Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Monday 25 December 2006 19:09 \__
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>> Linux predictions for 2007
>> --------------------------
>>
>>
>> At a glance guess into 2007.
>>
>> 1. Micoshaft will allocate resources to roll their own distro
>> to dump Novel. Why pay $300 million for Linux when you can
>> roll your own for $3 million? The whole point about novel was to get
>> other dumb companies to suck up to micoshaft for money.
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>
> Make that 2010? There's also the possibility of Open Sourcing Windows. Sun
> goes in this direction and the embedded Windows platform is now "look
> inside but don't touch", IIRC.
Just taking a dig at micoshaft management.
This thought MUST have crossed their mind by now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> 2. Linux desktop features races past windopz for good.
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>
> This happened quite a while ago. Visually-speaking:
Agreed - but I was more hinting along the lines of wherein
windopz can't ever argue back even by stretching
their delusions of grandeur because most desktops have
these advanced features as standard and windopz doesn't.
> Looking Glass on Ubuntu
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ4Nza34ak
>
> Beryl 3D Window Layer Plugin
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpIhoLzDOTY
>
> Stability, security, powerful tools... games are not a feature of the
> platform and it's only game-makers who fit/tailor their games to a
> platform, not vice versa. Same with applications, but that'll certainly
> continue to change in 2007.
>
>
>> 3. Linux products and apps cut deep gouges into windopz products and
>> market.
>> Die hard windopz developers begin to panic because they can't win
>> while those that switch to open source models early begin to prosper.
>>
>> 4. Linux begins the process to wave goodby to windopz compatibility
>> because micoshaft have switched to distributing Linux
>> and the need to support micoshaft legacy products
>> becomes an ever distant requirement.
>>
>> 5. Linux users and management begin to eliminate DRM and pay per seat
>> software in favour of open source programs and open to business
>> extensible digital formats that allow businesses to enhance
>> interoperability and start adding and extending formats for
>> their own purposes without having to rely on controlling
>> interests and third parties.
>>
>> 6. Next generation Linux systems and ideas begin to emerge.
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>
> "Next generation" means nothing. It's like "Web 2.0", or choosing to
> number Linux kernels/versions differently. As someone, somewhere, some
> time has said, if Linux had a marketing department, it would be at version
> 10 now, not 2.x. Apple has been stuck at 10 for quite some time. Microsoft
> escaped from 12 to 2007 (Office), for marketing purposes of course. Same
> with codenames replacing year numbers... Mandriva being the ones to carry
> the legacy.
Sure I am being deliberately vague when claiming 'Next generation'.
There are so many grey areas to lift up into the light
to show you what I mean to be specific. One area for example is
soft cpus. This tied together with Linux allows
server farms to dropped into a chip!!!!!!!
Someone smart enough to produce huge quantities of FPGAs
and churn them out cheaply to replace CPUs is now guaranteed
to succeed because the infrasturcture is here now.
>
>> 7. Embedded Linux builds computers cheaper than $100 laptop.
>>
>> 8. Linux games becomes the only way to make next generation games work.
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>
> OpenGL-accelerated desktops come to mind (DirectX flip mode is moot). This
> can also assist, augment and complement design, e.g. Autodesk AutoCAD,
> Maya 3D... among other things of course...
OpenGL patents are owned by micoshaft.
I'm thinking more of the arrival of open source libraries
pooling enough features together to make rapid gaming
advances that could only be put together in a Linux environment.
The typical windopz developer model of buying up companies
to get at the fragments of code is rapidly coming to an end
because its too slow and not as dynamic as the Linux
developer environment.
>> 9. Embedded Linux becomes the only way to make next generation gadgets
>> work.
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>
> Well, that's your field of expertise, I guess, so you should know.
Some gadgets require a lot of functions. Purchasing the IP is not
an option because price is a product killer.
Thus your product will only live if you choose open source, Linux,
and open source IP for building hardware modules. These hardware modules
become too complex for anyone to develop on their own.
So the next gen systems can only be made through Linux.
Witness the GPX2. Its an unbelievably powerful system.
>> 10. Web portals begin eliminating poor performance windopz code fragments
>> to switch to open source and mixing and mashing of snippets of
>> open source code to make deliverables happen more quickly.
>
>
> The Web is /already/ an Open Source turf. Sites which ran Windows
> (probably because some people assume it integrates better with their flaky
> desktop... same with handhelds, for the sake of the argument) have moved
> to Linux... even MicrosoftWatch.com.
>
>
>> 11. Windopz will finally be seen as an anomoly that needs to be corrected
>> by management noting that micoshaft is distributing SuSE Linux.
>> Managment will begin eliminating the windopz anomoly by buying into
>> Linux products and services big time - so get ready for 2007 boys and
>> gals, this is it!!!!!!
>
> What about all the SPAM? An article that I read yesterday argues that it
> ain't gonna stop for another 5-10 years (at the least). I know that Europe
> has begun an initiative to end or at least combat SPAM. Perhaps in due
> time the intersection between this project and the rapid migration of
> governments to Linux will be understood. Then, the solution will be a
> forced migration to Linux. Microsoft Office can still be used, on the
> Win32 partition, with the network cable unplugged. Policemen with clubs
> may ensure this law is honoured. Well, we can dream, can't we...?
I firmly believe the problem with spam is the USA and USA only.
Whenever you end up reading spam, you are always saying things
like 'Those fscking amerikkkaaans and their fscking viagra tablets!'
Spam makes amerikkkaaans look like fsckwits.
Its not an international problem.
Its down to amerikkkaaans to interfere with micoshaft
by fining them billions of dollars until they fix the problem.
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