Re: Qualcomm cancels Windows dev kit PC

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 18 Oct 2024 19:10:33 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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The problem with being a widely used OS with thousands of 'must have'
applications is you wake up to find yourself in a straight jacket.

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The *nix ecosystem also has thousands of “must have” applications, and it
is older than Windows or even MS-DOS. Yet it has evolved in a much more
graceful fashion.
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The difference is that Microsoft’s platform has been victim to a long
succession of short-term, profit-driven decisions by managers and bean-
counters, that have totally bit-rotted away any conceptual integrity the
architecture may originally have had. This happened to some extent with
the proprietary Unixes, too, but they are all dead now.
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So *nix as a living, breathing and still evolving concept, lives on as
Linux today. And it is now Windows that is desperately trying to copy from
Linux.

Good post.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.