[dundee] Google's Response to the MS bid for Yahoo

[Arron M Finnon]

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>> From: "Digit (SG)" <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com>
>> Sent: 05 February 2008 04:12
>> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [dundee] Google's Response to the MS bid for Yahoo
>> 
>> they already are.
>> 
>> when a tiny ball of something blows up or implodes, it does it perceptably
>> quickly, with a quick pop.  when something as planetarily massive as
>> microsoft pops, it does so rather slower...  this is the rumble we've been
>> hearing for a while.  the death of an old stubborn way clinging on with
>> frictionless like grip to the swift better way charging away past carving
>> the larger future.

>If you are right and MS are about to "pop", do you see them being replaced with some sort of open source entity?

Well i'm on the school of thought that the whole sherbang will change the face of modern computing, i've been in 
the camp that says M$ has been dead for awhile, and like the dinosaurs extinction takes a wee while.  Vista was the
proof of it for me.  The final cash cow so to speak, when throwing all common laws of usability out of the 
Windows (the non patent laden thing in the wall, not the OS from the devil) it shows that sales of hardware came top
of the agenda, rather than their customer base.  Steve Ballmer as CEO also indicates that replacing Sir Billy Boy of Gates
with a long term successful replacement was also left of the top of the agenda

In answer to the "do you see them being replaced with some sort of open source entity?" question, i think the face of
computing will change forever.  Investors will panic, customer confidence will vapourise, the web 2.0 industry and the 
face of re-inflated dot.com bubble will be sucked down in the wake of HMS M$ sinking, and a return to a kinder and 
purer computing will emerge.  I'm thinking back to the video rick so kindly posted from Eben, about the mass decentralisation 
of computing, and data processing power.  This is not to say that the way is paved for FLOSS, the work still need to be done 
and as Eben said the Open Source community has had 10 years off and there is still plenty to do.

I'm left thinking in the wake of all of this if the Brand M$ will disappear or will it be kept alive via life support, to
keep the market place growing?  Of course i may be being a bit controversial in what i'm saying, but most who have had the 
unfortunate time of hearing my bar stool computing politics ramblings about my good friends over at Redmond will know that
i've been saying this near on two years.

BTW did everyone know that on the 15th of March it is the Linux Society's birthday?  Well done guys what a time we have had
so far

f1nUx  

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Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org