I spent my childhood living in Naples, Italy. The city and community was filled with competition. My dad owned his own pizza place next to his cousins pizza place. They were angry at each other, many times going to the street in their white cooking clothes and yelling at each other. Other one took off customers from the another. They could had sold many more delicious pizzas, but couldn't because there just wasn't enough customers. What I learned from it was that you need a clean playing field, so I moved t
While I severely doubt the truth of the above anecdote (especially given your username) the basic point is correct. In the vast majority of circumstances more competition in a market is better for consumers not worse. This is one of the major reasons the United States has anti-trust rules. Consumers should be far more worried about a single monolith controlling an entire industry.
Yes, in the majority of cases more competition is better. Then there are operating systems.
Until applications and data are built on completely open standards -- interoperable with ANY capable device -- this multiple OS business is just a hassle for consumers.
Imagine if your must-have pizza topping was incompatible with any other company's pizzas!
Until applications and data are built on completely open standards -- interoperable with ANY capable device -- this multiple OS business is just a hassle for consumers.
You haven't been paying much attention to where the technology is going, have you? As it stands right now, any program written for.Net that relies on the built-in namespaces instead of Windows specific API calls will run on Linux or Mac with the Mono CLI. That's the direction MS is moving, and they are the Giant Evil Corporation(tm) who is most likely to fight this sort of change. They have to move this direction, however, or else be passed by in the open movement that is going on.
Linux products like Wine and Crossover have been bridging the gap for years, and OS virtualization is becoming ubiquitous. It is possible right now to run any application on any computer with just a little bit of work, and it is only going to get easier in the future.
Wake up and smell the coffe man, what you want is exactly what the multi-OS competition is driving towards. Without this "hassle", nothing would happen at all, and you'd still get to complain forever. I'm sure that's all you really want, is something to complain about.
...ok, then point me to the.NET desktop app that is compatable across all of those platforms like a curses or X app can target all of the various Unixes? Until there is something a Mac user would want in such an app, all rhetoric to that effect is just mindless propaganda..NET is just a way for Linux or MacOS to move away from their core strengths while getting nothing in the bargain except 2nd or 3rd class status with respect to the relevant "standard".
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
-- P. Erdos
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Yes, in the majority of cases more competition is better. Then there are operating systems.
Until applications and data are built on completely open standards -- interoperable with ANY capable device -- this multiple OS business is just a hassle for consumers.
Imagine if your must-have pizza topping was incompatible with any other company's pizzas!
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Until applications and data are built on completely open standards -- interoperable with ANY capable device -- this multiple OS business is just a hassle for consumers.
You haven't been paying much attention to where the technology is going, have you? As it stands right now, any program written for .Net that relies on the built-in namespaces instead of Windows specific API calls will run on Linux or Mac with the Mono CLI. That's the direction MS is moving, and they are the Giant Evil Corporation(tm) who is most likely to fight this sort of change. They have to move this direction, however, or else be passed by in the open movement that is going on.
Linux products like Wine and Crossover have been bridging the gap for years, and OS virtualization is becoming ubiquitous. It is possible right now to run any application on any computer with just a little bit of work, and it is only going to get easier in the future.
Wake up and smell the coffe man, what you want is exactly what the multi-OS competition is driving towards. Without this "hassle", nothing would happen at all, and you'd still get to complain forever. I'm sure that's all you really want, is something to complain about.
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...ok, then point me to the .NET desktop app that is compatable across all of those platforms like a curses or X app can target all of the various Unixes? Until there is something a Mac user would want in such an app, all rhetoric to that effect is just mindless propaganda. .NET is just a way for Linux or MacOS to move away from their core strengths while getting nothing in the bargain except 2nd or 3rd class status with respect to the relevant "standard".