I don't see Microsoft sinking anytime soon, maybe in 15-25 years. One of the main reasons is because its a stable name, and the product of Microsoft is well known. Apple is starting to do the same thing, there name and product is getting to be well known, but still has a long ways to go. With Linux and Open Source Software , its a moving target. Between Redhat, SuSE/Novel, and Ubuntu things are always changing. The most stable thing in the Linux OSS world is the name "Redhat", even Open Office is in flux. How many years till Ubuntu gets replaced by something else? We even have 2 competing desktops, or how long till Xorg is replaced by something else? OSS is not stable, and normal people want stable, most definitely business. -- MrEcho
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Great is an appropriate word. Since Microsoft is no longer the 800 > pound gorilla in the room, or in other words a "sinking ship" at best, if > adobe jumps on board to bail water, then maybe the will sink together into > greater depths. Let's hope for the best. Hopefully open source developers > will see this as an opportunity to bring video apps up to par like other > apps such as MySQL, Php, and other web apps. As Ubuntu has made a major > breakthrough in the desktop world for linux I think there is good > possibilities for the open source community. > > Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Microsoft. Competition is fun. It's also > fun to be on the winning team. Microsoft cuts throat to get on top. > Personally I think it is great when the guy who does an honest job starts to > get ahead. How is it that the cut throats are on top of the world, and the > honest workers are supposed to be satisfied groveling on the bottom rung? > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great, now the two software products that suck the most are coming >> from the same company >> (Flash and Windows). >> >> Chris... >> >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Sounds to me like they're running scared. Lol >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Microsoft buying Adobe? >> >> >> >> http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6846369/281173/327661/0/ >> >> -- >> >> Jeff Lasman >> >> Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 >> >> Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only >> >> Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: >> >> "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > LinuxUsers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >> -Roger Penrose >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
