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worker201:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Or someone could set up a bittorrent tracker and it wouldn't come to a screeching halt ... (by the way only the servers hosting OpenOffice may experience this problem ... the rest of the internet (pr0n) will be just fine)
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However, this does remind me of something from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books (perhaps the 2nd), called the 'shoe event horizon'.  There came to be a time in a certain economy where it no longer made economic sense to make anything but shoes.  I suppose it is conceivable that this guy thinks that we will reach some kind of 'Office horizon', where the only purpose of the web will be as a distribution network for office suites.  At that point, all the pr0n dealers will switch to enterprise office solutions, simply because there is no market for anything else.  Once the 'Office horizon' has passed, then the pr0n dealers can get back to their normal business of selling 45 year old strippers "barely legal teens" (or selling 19 year old skanks as "horny housewives").

Whatever.

Pathos:

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mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: Pathos ---In terms of operating systems I doubt anyone new could enter the market (as in build a new operating system), its just too expensive. Linux would take off, Solaris would resurrect in the server market and Apple would just explode.

AMD would be screwed. Intel would be just fine with Apple.
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Don't think I can agree with you on either point.

First of all, building an operating system is NOT all that complicated.  There have been many many of them, even not including BSD and Linux variants.  Why haven't they made a deep penetration?  Because MS has a freaking monopoly and has used very questionable tactics to squash them.  Where would OS/2 or BeOS be now if MS were gone?  What about Atheos/Syllable, which is not Linux or  BSD.  DrDOS/GEM?    GNU/HURD?  

Second, if there was no MS, there are plenty of OS to fill the void which can run on Intel and AMD, so AMD would not be "screwed" unless they couldn't create products that could compete with Intel.

Apple isn't the only other game in town, and would not become the next MS if MS were gone, despite the fact that (IMHO) that's Steve Jobs' fantasy.

Jack2000:
I was thinking about this for a while
The open comunity should REALY
make theyr minds up
and make all new apps
OS independent + Hardware independent!
maby some kind of shell that will work on every thing
you jsut swap the shell on the OS and it is there... your shell
no MS no Linux
no Linux/Bsd/Mac fights
just SHell and different types of them
every thing should be standart compilant !

mobrien_12:
Jack, I really don't understand what you are talking about here.

Hardware and OS independence:


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