Originally posted by Zarax
With all this anti MS hate people has forgotten who is the real enemy...
IBM will try again to reduce software to a thing bundled with other stuff, and centralizing it again...
All that utility computing hype is only a modernized revival of the time sharing terminals connected to a centralized server...
And linux is giving them a brand new weapon, that's why i hate it...
Jesus, you really buy into Microsoft hype, don't you?
Dude, you've forgotten that
Microsoft wants software as a centralized, easy to control service.
Frome a CNet article on 'applications as services':
Speaking of Microsoft, the Redmond, Wash. ... has been the most vocal about its intentions to dominate the software-as-service market.
They introduced the concept of Office as a subscription service in 1998. .Net was created to implement that vision. This isn't hype or conflation or hyperbole. This is
exactly what Bill Gates said in numerous speeches at industry events. Did you somehow miss the last half of the 90s and the first two years of the 21st century?
IBM will try again to reduce software to a thing bundled with other stuff, and centralizing it again...
You mean like Windows Terminal Server, right?
And linux is giving them a brand new weapon, that's why i hate it...
You do realize that Linux is just a kernel, and IBM funds development for individual bits of various operating systems BASED on that kernel, right? I hope so, or else you're woefully misinformed. Consider: IBM doesn't have anything to do with things like Gentoo, which is a Linux based distribution. And IBM has nothing to do with other free Unix projects, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. You realize that these are all, you know, free, and don't put any money into any big corporate coffers (like IBM OR Microsoft), right?
You've don't seem to get that Linux and BSD and the various free DOS implementations are all free to everyone, no matter what Microsoft and IBM do? And all the tens of thousands of software written for those OSes are usually free too? See, Linux doesn't give IBM a weapon. Open Source Software gives EVERYONE a weapon. You, Me AND IBM--even Microsoft: Don't forget that Microsoft's TCP/IP stack is lifted directly out of BSD Unix.
I don't know why I even try to talk sense into you. You don't listen to reason and you don't even listen to the guy you're claiming everyone is attacking. You're just happy to play the poor little downtrodden Microsofty, the only one that sees the Truth. It doesn't help your case that the things you talk about are pretty much the exact opposite of reality.
