3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
11:50 p.m.
On 07/04/2012 02:38 AM, Mouse wrote:
Sure, but...does anyone actually believe that this will actually come
to pass? I mean, heck, there are hobbyist-designed computers almost
literally FLYING off the shelves these days, witness the Raspberry Pi
and its ilk. Apple's continued good luck with iPad sales won't put a
dent in the popularity of stuff like that (any more than it could put a
dent in, say, sales of boxes of nails) and it certainly won't stop
people from designing new ones.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> If the
Ipad keeps taking off, and the Microsoft Slate with it, then
> they will have succeeded in doing unimaginable damage to the open
> source community.
> We will tell you what apps you can and cannot
write. [...]
[...] But I have to ask...how do you think this
will do damage to
the open source community?
I didn't write what you're responding to. But my take on it is that
the death of open source envisaged there is a world in which there
aren't any computers that don't subscribe to such paradigms, and the
damage done in the short term consists of accustoming people to the
idea that it's a reasonable and long-term-viable paradigm.