Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> [Linux] would be a huge improvement over the whole world
> using Windows.
Why?
> It's not clear whether you feel that Unix is
> architecturally insufficient for future needs (perhaps,
> though being well understood and having decades of field
> testing are huge advantages) or that the currently
> available UIs are no good [...]
Both, they're interrelated. To do anything useful with the
UI requires changes to the architecture. And vice versa.
> [...]
> The net and technologies build on top of it were truly
> revolutionary. They turned glorified filing cabinets and
> calculators into communication enablers. It isn't
> surprising that years and $billions of new business models
> have arisen from this revolution.
Networks are a good thing, I don't deny that, they're just
not the only good thing.
BM
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