[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[Mike Stephen]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:39:23 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>Geoffrey wrote:
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>> I think I've seen a number of valid points here.  With IBM moving
>> heavily into the Linux realm, I can't understand why they don't put some
>> weight ($$) behind OS/2.  Here is what I think would be the ideal
>> solution, although it's not enforceable by the government:
>>
>> 1. Separation of hardware and the OS, you buy a computer, you choose
>> your OS.  This does a number of things.  Most of all, let's folks know
>> they have choices.
>>
>> 2. Force M$ to publish all their proprietary file formats, now and for
>> the next 10 years.
>>
>> 3. IBM shit or get off the pot with OS/2 (Ecomstation (sp?)).  Either
>> put some $$$ behind it, sell it to someone who can properly leverage it,
>> or make it open source. No, it's not the perfect OS, but neither is
>> Linux, *bsd and it's certainly better then any of the Windows variants.
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>I have a beter idea - IBM should port the OS/2 WPS to Linux and fix the SIQ
>problem in the process.

For something like the WPS to run on Linux would require a new file system to be adopted and standardised on .  This will not happen 
in the Linux world.  It (A file system that allows Metadata (Extended Attributes)).  There are filesystems available that allow this, but the 
Linux world will never make it a standard.  Because of this no programmers will take advantage of it, therefore a WPS type environment 
will never happen.
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>Linux could use the desktop and SOM parts of OS/2 while keeping the Linux
>kernel.  It makes so much sense.

The Linux kernal still has a huge lacl of "fluid" multitasking.  Its multitasking is on a par with windows XP.  Basically, Linus sucks as far 
as multitasking...  Those two points are the major flawed in Linux, when comparing to Warp. Besides if we complain about windows 
lack of innovation, how can anyone possibly say that Linux dos not have that same lack?
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>John
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>>
>>
>> These three items would bring Microsoft to their knees, unless they
>> changed their ways and begun to write decent software and play fair in
>> the marketplace.
>>
>> They wouldn't have the leverage of forced purchases of their OS with new
>> hardware. They wouldn't have the leverage of the proprietary file
>> formats, which reinforces the use of Office, and hence Windows OSs.
>> Between Linux, the other UNIX variants and OS/2 there would finally be
>> some reasonable competition in the OS market.
>>
>> Uh, oh, it was all a wonderful dream, but I've now awaken....
>>
>> --
>> Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric@3times25.net
>>
>> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
>> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>>
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