Re: OT: The Geek defense

On 29 Feb 2008 12:47:41 GMT, billg999@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

As I tried to outline above, I believe the whole paradigm will shift within
15 years. Linux will be remembered fondly (or not) in the same way that we
remember DOS. That is not to minimize the value of it right now, it is
simply to put it into a longer term perspective.

I don't know how to break this to you but DOS is anything but dead.
I have things that I run, in a production environment, that only run
under DOS. And there are even a number of choices other than vanilla
MSDOS. Linux only being remembered, fondly or not, is only wishful
thinking. The death of Unix has been imminent since the early 80's.

Vernor Vinge has a SF novel which has computer archeologists digging
through centuries of code to find pieces of DOS in it. They are
trying to get rid of the layers of dirt to make the code more
efficient.

Neat idea - and it is easy to see how it could come about with
encapsulation of components. But I really don't quite believe it.
While tools can leave their mark in what they create, our future is
more likely to be "throw away and start over" - we will have the power
and wealth to do so, giving cleaner products.
.

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