Re: [SLUG] Want Linux on your desktop? Nine reasons to forget about it

From: edoc (kd4e@arrl.net)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 22:31:25 EDT


Why don't the Linux folks team up with IBM-ViaVoice and and come out
with an excellent voice-optimized GUI? Why compete with M$ head-to-head?
Do an end-around and grab a specialty piece of the market that will explode
in a mere couple of years ... be ahead of the wave with superior design,
technology, and stability.

Then add a diskless server and a bunch of 14" audio-video appliances that
can be cheaply set around the house using wireless links so folks may do
online audio/audio-video calls, check their E-mail, stock prices, news,
sports, whatever ... all hands free.

Can you say "Hal ... any new E-mails, please?" as you eat breakfast and
get ready from room to room in the house ... video-out discretely toggled
off as appropriate! ;-)

Doc

> You've got a good point there. When it comes to GUI's nobody seems to
> be thinking outside the box. It's time for something REALLY different.
>
> Ed.



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