Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Internet Mobile w/ Treo wrote:
> The Linux Laptop designed by Negroponte at MIT may be the most important piece of technology designed by Western civilization in the 21st century. Capable of doing mesh networking and running Linux, it will provide a new baseline of portable computing never seen before. Besides usage in education, it also promises a level of computer power and connectivity unseen in the rest of the developing world. It will be perfect for public safety and emergency use alone.
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> It is one of the tools needed now down in the dual hurricane strike zone in the US SOUTH.
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>  It can work as an multimedia access point, etc. It may end up creating a new market for powerful lowend power computing. Companies at first wont sell this in the US, but I see these selling in Walmart within 2 quarters.
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> Some of you are worried about a new generation of script kiddies. I see a generation will be be raised on the contents and access of Google and Wikipedia. Students in the US will need this just to keep up with the rest of the world.
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> This product may single handedly turn the computing market upside down and make some giants out of molehills and kill or seriously maim Microsoft in the world market.
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> Let the maiming begin. Go Negroponte go.
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> Adam sans the handcrank on my laptop.
When like Microsoft you have been so dominant for so long, you at first 
think you are invincible and the font of all wisdom, then you know so. 
When listening to the meeting where Massachusetts liad down their 
decision requiring Open Document Format for all state documents from 
2007, you hear Microsoft and their cohorts with only one note to their 
samba, beseach - We "The Company", font of all innovation and all that 
is pure and healthy, refuse to co-operate with anyone else in framing 
formats on the grounds that it limits our ability to screw most of the 
planet, after all, that is what freedom is really about in a democracy 
and Open Document Format will damage our profits, the American economy, 
increase costs, lose jobs, disenfranchise the citizens of the Commwealth 
and encourage beastiality that will kill millions and eat their babies. 
MS knows better than you, so don't do this.
Ballmer's hit list is increasing every day, Linux, Google - threats to 
f'ing kill and Massachucetts published so far, I'd not be surprised if 
there isn't a poster in his office saying "Obliterate what we can't 
dominate".
Regards
Sid.
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