Re: MS is doomed... any year now

On 4/23/2024 4:53 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:48:09 -0400, DFS wrote:
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MS revenue is up:
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revenue from various sources

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It's certainly getting bigger, even if its success can't be measured by
the traditional, corporate means. Linux doesn't seem to want to take over
the desktop anymore because it was taken over just about everything else
anyway.

 Linux doesn't want to "take over" anything. It's simply laid out there for
people / companies to choose, or not.

Of course the software product doesn't desire anything.  It's the oddball adherents who want it to "take over" and "kill" everything else.
Even Torvalds had some kind of delusion that Linux would "destroy Microsoft".
Everything starts and ends with cola "advocate" Rexxie Ballard, of course:
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* Java and Linux itself: "Contributor to General Public License (GPL) software pool, including work-for-hire that lead to JAVA (Dow Data Protocol), Client/Server computing (RPC), and Linux."
* Java: "Sun reworked the [Rexxie-led Dow Data Protocol project] code a
bit and created a new Language/Protocol called Java."
* GPL: "As we reviewed the goals, we drafted the language for what was
first known as the "General Public License".
* Netscape and the Web browsing industry: "Meanwhile, I was making
reccomendations to the publisher's mailing list. I was making
reccomendations on how the Mosaic browser could be modified to provide
electronic commerce, royalty distribution, and advertizing accounting.
In a few weeks, the author's of Mosaic implemented those changes in a
new browser called NetScape. After a bit of tuning and a few thousand
downloads, NetScape issued it's IPO and made headlines everywhere. In a
matter of six months, I had generated a 4 billion dollar industry."
* secure http: "I wrote the initial specification for SHTTP."
* the concept of remote procedure calls: "Yes.  I was working at
Computer Consoles, with a coworker named Larry Early.  I was working on
the concept of a "virtual call".  We came up with a parser, written in
YACC, that would take something similar to a C header file and generate
C code that would take the arguments to a function, convert them to
serial format, and send them through a stream to the "server", and
convert the recieved reply from serial format to arguments - the client
stub.  The same parser would also generate the server skeleton (not the
term we used at the time) which would covert the serialized request into
the request and call the desired routine, then convert the results to
serial format, and send them back to the client over a stream.
We did this with serial protocol as well as TCP and UDP.  We kept it
as generic as possible because Power 6/32 still had some proprietary
communications links."
* SSL (secure sockets layer): "Netscape took this high level project
description, along with my usual 4 page description of how this might be
done (you can see from my posts on cola that I'm not exactly one to
write short notes).  A few weeks later, they had implemented SSL."
* Internet standards: "Developed databases, operating systems, and
applications for distributed processing systems of up to 1000 CPUs in
fault tolerant (99.997% uptime) configurations. This work led to many of
the standards now used on the Internet and Intranet."
* explosion of Linux web servers: "I told the publishers about Linux and
showed them how they could set up a dedicated PPP link to a local
internet service provider and publish their content via the Web, for
under $1000.  Suddenly there were about 8000 web servers on the
internet, mostly powered by Linux."
* $2 million per day in revenue/savings at FedEx
* creator of $1 billion industries
* is Cisco Network Engineer #5
* helped create one of the first digitized voice response systems
* saved IBM nearly $24 million
* dual-boot Windows and Linux is his idea: "Two weeks after the first
OEM comes out with systems running BOTH Linux and Windows, everyone will
forget I ever suggested it, and take credit for it themselves."
* the success of Yahoo and Amazon: "Now imagine you are one
of 200 or even 2000 or even 8000 people observing this conversation -
being conducted between this consultant and a handful of questioners who
are asking very pointed and specific questions.  Now, suppose that 100
or 200 of those "lurkers" started posting their results, and started
asking questions as to how to take it to the next level?  They have
really funny names like Yahoo, Amazon, and Lycos.  At first, these are
unheard of names, but before long, they became huge names."
* Military weaponry: "It was then that my aviation club teacher showed
me a film of some "toys" which the military had developed out of notes
taken from my locker.  Things like drone missles, personnel detectors,
and terrain following missles."  (DFS: hahha!!  This one's priceless!)
* features in MS-DOS: "They even let me send samples
of my code to Microsoft, along with my reccomendations to CP/M. We
slapped copyright notices all over everything and sent it via registered
mail. The decided not to hire me, and decided to use my reccomendations
in MS-DOS. The neglected to pay Data-Law for this copyrighted material.
Instead, they just did a "clean room" implementation."
* features in Windows 2000: "They [Microsoft] spent 18 hours pumping me
for design ideas for Windows 2000 and then withdrew their offer (which I
wasn't going to accept anyway). They said I didn't have the Microsoft
Religion". But they incorporated about 20 of the 30 reccomendations I
proposed."
* his behavior in the theater program in college was Robin Williams'
inspiration for his character Mork on Mork & Mindy.
* his online writing is the basis for Nicholas Negroponte's book
"Being Digital"
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Now we have another IT Sooperman: Feeb Russell:
"Give me C, simple and unchanging C, and I shall bury these Microslop
cronies."
Why does GuhNoo/FOSS attract so many liars and delusional oddballs?