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[News] The Difference Between Modular GNU/Linux and 'Modular' (for Profit) Windows

  • Subject: [News] The Difference Between Modular GNU/Linux and 'Modular' (for Profit) Windows
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:55:01 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Why modular Windows will suck for Microsoft and suck for you

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| Modularization - and the discriminatory pricing it permits - might appeal to 
| accountants and economists. But it is bad for consumers, bad for Windows, and 
| ultimately, bad for Microsoft. A modularized Windows, or worse still, a 
| modularized subscription-based Windows, undermines the purpose and value of 
| the Windows OS. If it comes to pass it will surely sound the death knell of 
| the entire Windows platform.     
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/modular-windows-will-suck.ars


Recent:

The Marvels of Modularity

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| One word that has cropped up time and again on this blog is "modularity". 
| It's one of the prime characteristics of the open source way - and one of its 
| greatest strengths. Now wonder, then, that Microsoft has finalled cottoned 
| on - helped, no doubt, by the abject failure of its Vista monster   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Needless to say, though, even in making this sensible move, Microsoft manages 
| to add a touch of absurdity: 
| 
| 
|     Unsurprisingly, Microsoft already has a patent on a "modular operating 
|     system" concept.  
| 
| 
| A *patent* on modularity? Give me a break....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/marvels-of-modularity.html


Related:

Microsoft to Release Modular Operating Systems

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| Confirming Gartner's prediction, Microsoft has filed for a patent with
| the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a modular operating system.
| The title of Microsoft's patent applications is "System and method
| for delivery of a modular operating system."
| 
| [...]
| 
| Instead of releasing a complete operating system, Microsoft will
| fragment the product, delivering a universal and basic core OS, and
| allowing the users to built upon the nucleus OS with additional
| operating system segments. In this manner, users will be enabled
| to buy the fundamental Windows Modular operating system and then
| add components, capabilities, features, each fragment with its own
| price tag and license.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-To-Release-Modular-Operating-Systems-42462.shtml


Red Hat release renews OS debate

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| Makers of "software appliances" are using the launch as an opportunity
| to predict that the days of the monolithic OS are numbered. They say
| the future lies in a modular system in which software runs with only
| enough lines of OS code to make it work.
| 
| Some see promise in the appliance alternative to the OS, while
| skeptics think large enterprises will still need a general-purpose OS.
| 
| The same questions arose recently around the launch of Microsoft
| Corp. Windows Vista. A trio of Gartner Inc. analysts published a
| report in 2006 that said the increasing complexity of Windows
| makes it "unsustainable." Gartner predicted Windows will be
| broken up into modular components. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/031407-red-hat-release-renews-os.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


Raising the abstraction level in open source

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| Our view is that project plans are the latest evolutionary bump
| in the abstraction level - plans are the 'source' for the steps
| that enables the completion of a goal.
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http://rogerdenton.blogspot.com/2006/11/raising-level-of-abstraction-in-open.html


The Benefits of Modular Programming

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| Consider how Linux distributions work. RedHat's Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, 
| and Debian all contain largely the same applications, written by the 
| same people. The distributor simply packages them and provides the 
| "glue" to install them together.
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http://www.webreference.com/programming/modular_programming/


Internet Radio in NetBSD and Linux without KDE or GNOME

,----[ Quote ]
| Listening to Internet Radios seems easy nowadays with the rampant powerful 
| graphical environments of KDE and GNOME.  
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http://polishlinux.org/apps/multimedia/internet-radio-in-netbsd-and-linux-without-kde-or-gnome-apps/

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