On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 01:28:01AM +0530, LinuxLingam wrote:
LinuxLingam> however, i wish to strongly point out something about this article: he is
LinuxLingam> praising amazon sky-high for what its worth. and there is an inherent
danger
LinuxLingam> in this which he has not pointed out: amazon is into patenting the
LinuxLingam> 'one-click' ordering system or something. patenting a clickstream is a
new
LinuxLingam> low. and is quite fraught with danger should they succeed morbidly. think
LinuxLingam> about all the keystroke and/or mouse-click sequences out there, waiting
to be
LinuxLingam> patenting.
Read again, I dont think he is praising anyone. all he is saying
is that, amazon and google are going to be big players. these
people are not only selling a service, they are selling/renting
software without themselves knowing about it. One day they
will realise that what is the *real* market and they will realise
that before people who are selling software today. And if amazon
will buy oracle. google might buy redhat and that will have considerable
effect on the development of redhat.
The point he makes well though is about xbox and "hobbists", hobbists
is a word used in the older days for hackers. These are the
people who invent. these will be the people who will keep pc
alive and these are the people doing FLOSS development.
LinuxLingam> also, he fails to point out the irony of the 'internet' era. its biggest
LinuxLingam> success story [dubious?] is that of amazon's online bookstore. and what
did
LinuxLingam> they do through the craze of the 'internet economy'? well, they sold
books,
LinuxLingam> you know, deadwood paper products. schwing!!!
This is ironical indeed, but isnt it a pragmatic approach for a
company which is there only to make money not to introduce new
concepts and ideas. That is the work of hobbiests.
LinuxLingam> i think the whole hardware+software+services+FLOSS world is in an era of
LinuxLingam> transition. no one really knows what is the emerging trend. what everyone
LinuxLingam> knows is that the old is ready to go to its funeral. only then will the
new
LinuxLingam> be revealed, for what it is.
I think the funeral is not comming as soon as microsoft would
like us to belive. at least I would wait for the DOOM III specs
to come out before buying my new PC. and no i will not buy a
xbox instead.
And what will be the scene in software? I really dont know. And
I really dont know anyone who knows.
--
all the things we keep inside,
are the things that really matter,
the face puts on its best disguise,
and all is well, until the heart betrays.
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