Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

["Internet Niue" <stclair@xxxxxxx>]

> This scared the living daylights out of me.
> Now gone check Term Of Use of the Windows Passport site.....
>
> Internet Niue wrote:
> > Hmmm. This is interesting reading for those of you who haven't seen it
> > yet.
> >
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm
>

It's interesting isn't it.

There is a real and true revolution coming again in the IT community. Just as 
big as the revolution that gave us affordable desktop PCs in the first place. 

This is another one, and those of us who were in the industry in the late 
70's when the big wars between IBM and "the world" started regarding who 
could reverse engineer a BIOS chip and make a clone.....well, I see this 
thing about open source vs MS starting out exactly the same way.  Exactly.

And back in those days......we won, eventually. And suddenly you didn't have 
to build a computer if you wanted one, you could buy one. And you didn't have 
to buy an IBM PC junior for $3,000, you could buy a clone for $1,000.

And then the real revolution began..........it was beautiful.

And it's ironic that because we won against IBM, MS became another IBM.