From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262859AbTJ3V2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:28:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262860AbTJ3V2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:28:17 -0500 Received: from uni01du.unity.ncsu.edu ([152.1.13.101]:31883 "EHLO uni01du.unity.ncsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262859AbTJ3V2O (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:28:14 -0500 From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:28:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Message-ID: <20031030212812.GA698@ncsu.edu> References: <3F9F7F66.9060008@namesys.com> <20031029224230.GA32463@codepoet.org> <3FA0475E.2070907@namesys.com> <1067466349.3077.274.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> <20031030002005.GC3094@digitasaru.net> <16288.24913.844699.956689@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <20031030013418.GD3094@digitasaru.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031030013418.GD3094@digitasaru.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:34:19PM -0600, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > I don't see any reason why we *shouldn't* look at the problem and try to > do it. What reasons do you see for not persuing the problem to its > inevitible implementation? Well I am not qualified to comment on this particular technology, I have not investigated it enough to understand what it is trying to accomplish. But there is a danger in letting MS marketing drive the direction of our OS. Particularly since, as you note in another post, working on project X means that project Y suffers due to lack of developer attention. I dont think that the MS idea of what a computer should be look bear much resembelence to what I want mine to look like. Which is why I started using Linux. Unfortunatly, we probably dont really have a choice. MS has enough market share that we must emulate not only their good, but even their bad ideas if we want Linux to be used by people other than those who develop it. my $0.02 Jim