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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Ocriss on February 25, 2006, 11:38:34 PM

Title: I was wrong....!
Post by: Ocriss on February 25, 2006, 11:38:34 PM

All,

It has been a while since I have posted here.
I visit regularly to read the forums, but have not
been posting.  

I was looking at the new Macs the other day
and thinking about how successful Apple has been
with their new strategy.  I can't help but think
that Jobs stole Amiga's thunder yet again.  This
thought didn't hit me right away.

I remembered when Gateway announced they were going
take the Linux Kernel and basically Amigafy it.
I thought this was a bad idea.  I wrote all kinds
of posts about why this wouldn't work.  Funny, little
did I know I was wrong.  That's basically what Apple
had done with OS X.  They put their own Aqua interface
on a modified Kernel and everybody loves it.

Man I'm wondering if it is too late for some smart
group of programmers to come in and still do something
like this with the Amiga look and feel.  I'm starting
to get very, very scared at what I'm reading about
MS Vista and what Google has been doing.  Also, I have
messed around with the Mac and still can't quite get
the attraction.  I don' know why but something always
seems wrong to me about the way they do things.  Maybe
I don't really 'think different.' :)

I think we will all be retro-computing soon if Google
and Microsoft have their way.  I don't want to have
to ask MS for verification keys and permisions to use
my machine.  I also don't want to have to pay monthly
fees for them to 'fix' or 'optimize' my machine.
I don't want to be doing all of my word processing,
accounting, and so on online as Google plans.

I'm really hoping I can get a handle on Linux soon.
I think computing is really going to take a dump in the
toilet.

Regards,
Ocriss

Title: Re: I was wrong....!
Post by: Hyperspeed on February 26, 2006, 12:01:22 AM

Wasn't Linus Torvaldes a teenager when he programmed Linux? Why are multi-national corporations, governments etc. all obsessed with using 'kernels' from other operating systems.

Go back to the drawing board and redo everything is the way to advance, not regurgitating the same old tripe every decade.

Google is trying to compete with Microsoft, they're two very seperate companies and Google is just spreading itself too thinly. Very soon Alta Vista and Yahoo are going to give it a nasty dose of reality.

I don't like this business of keys, registration etc. either... soon they'll be asking us to scan our eyes, supply DNA and maybe even a GPS location. PayPal already calls you up to confirm who you are, what's stopping this going down a darker path?

Soon, databases will be able to put a name to an IP address without having to obtain court orders for the ISP to release your data!

Title: Re: I was wrong....!
Post by: amigagr on February 26, 2006, 12:09:18 AM

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Hyperspeed wrote:
and maybe even a GPS location.

but this already works through mobile phones...