-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2016 12:17 PM, Spencer wrote:
Hi,
Steve Kinney: Microsoft would lose a large part of its market share in the business and consumer markets
I am confident that even after the collapse, businesses running 98 and XP will still be paying for support q:
I know of a couple of small businesses still running core missions on Windows 98; in their use cases it "just works" and they see no need to fix it. There are still millions of XP installations grinding away out there. When a tool has successfully supported necessary business process for years, rational managers don't replace it until it either breaks or something comes along that offers a real improvement in the performance of the enterprise as a whole. Hence the key roles of forced obsolescence, managed security failure, and product misrepresentation in the wonderful world of proprietary software.
People, on the other hand, will be using the free and open-source KanyeOS built on the BAE-Waynux system.
Post-apocalypse, Free Software will dominate because of its superior performance in the context of salvaging and repurposing hardware, and because it already has a distributed architecture in place for developing and maintaining software. The more Free Software we have in our large scale integrated infrastructure today, the faster and better we can stand up a patchwork quilt of autonomous infrastructures tomorrow. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXj+dpAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqMRAH/iEIut2RsA7vrJfRG9aU6fJw e5HTKnyc1IdlUOikugs0ifHLHm5CsWsBxwlsmDDsBwPR9j3f0iU7krtF85vkU2Bm WkhA9+rbmO9uzLoAqTJ1vzTwJEubDl3rWK4yk6KSSyqLZo79SIGE6bNKUIEAoGWQ 1kh4lvpHqYiP+ziJ5XTBQd735qdzVxqp1/HK4ji/Iex3cFfHhhBhsMkDQQF4rzFP +ljuV685MN+dwY6OIprR+BkS4FwyN9j1K71hJzgylIeXs1A5dAB4tdI9a4LCmmoa 8ojgLMtVJICbjiF8jwvPVWm52c+Tfj1sqtimiHE9DFPI51lgmcj7eC2DNsq7rGI= =CYQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----