John Pugh wrote:
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>
>Ok...I'll bite on this one.
>
>The myth - my "personal or hobbyist or whatever you want to call it of
>point releases" do not come with what I call "support". Sure I have
>support of the greater community, but I don't have the luxury of making
>a phone call and getting help with a problem immediately. I DO have
>support when I purchase an enterprise version of a linux distribution
>and what supports it is the unified entity you mention does not exist.
>In our (novell/suse) case it's a multibillion $ company.
>
>The "windows singularity" is an oxymoron. There is no way that a
>windows singularity could occur (or be sustained) (the subject uses it
>as a verb it appears). If you don't know what the hypothesized
>singularity is...read
>http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html or simply
>search for singularity. What's interesting and quite comical is that the
>"singularity" that MS refers to is one that occurs at the center of a
>black hole. The "event horizon" is equivalent to MS's SIPs. The problem
>with this "theory" and the correlation is that MS will probably allow
>"naked singularities because it won't be able to artificially "control"
>or provide cosmic censorship to prevent these rogue, uncontrollable
>singularities.
>
>No one can predict when or if "the" singularity will occur, but with
>amazon's mturk and the google innovation, we are well on our way to
>artificial control and really don't want MS to make their attempt for
>two reasons 1) we'd be left high and dry when these systems blue screen
>constantly (besides the fact that we'd probably die because they would
>be running our life support systems) and 2) IF MS could do it, then we'd
>be controlled softly by micros...not a pretty site.
>
>Sorry for the long post - it's an interesting subject that has no
>business being mixed with micro and soft. I wish I could show you Novell
>Linux Desktop 10 alphas - very cool stuff (a lot of which is in SUSE
>Linx 10.0 from opensuse.org). I think you will see what you don't think
>you will see in the next 12 months.
>
>
Thank you, John!
I have a copy of Suse 10.0 that I've played around with some. It's very
cool! I would like to see that Alpha release you mentioned. I'm really
sold on Debian, but I love seeing the other Distro's in operation (no
pun intended). You just detailed several of my own thoughts on the M$
deal, and I'm glad to hear it in someone else's words. I don't want to
be controlled by anyone or anything, and I think that is exactly what
they are shooting for. They aren't the only ones, either. Don't get me
wrong, I'm not some gun-toting, militia red-neck, but I do hold dearly
to my fair share of conspiracy theories.
--Michael
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