On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM, LeeGroups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> History shows that
> whatever starts in the business and back-end world ends up finding
> it's way through the servers, to the corporate desktops, and then
> finally down to home desktops.
>
> -- Really? Like what?
>
> Lee
My
alan c wrote:
> can be made easily. The foss rising tide will mean this may not be
> with computing.
>
Should there be any such 'rising tide', and it become entirely clear
that there is no money to
be made in software R&D (only in supporting 'innovation ... elsewhere')
then where is
the inve
I wonder what controls Alan's Sky boxes? I bet it's not Windows - is it?
-- Well, that phone in the bottom left foreground, an E3 I think, runs Linux...
:)
History shows that
whatever starts in the business and back-end world ends up finding
it's way through the servers, to the corporate deskto
A few random ramblings...
Alan talked about "Microsoft being in every office", although it
interests me that he then specifically mentions that "everyone uses
Word, Excel, ..." - I guess an operating system isn't really the
important thing at all, it's the applications that are used. A shift
to OD
Josh Blacker wrote:
> Something of an, er, interesting comment beginning 7:11 on this video:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462104.stm
>
> The rest of the video is pretty boring, including the preceding section
> on 'Is Microsoft a monopoly?'.
I haven't watched this clip, but according to
I found the interview quite interesting... what "Alan Michael Sugar
Trading" (Amstrad) achieved in the 80s was nothing short of
extraordinary... their machines were actually pretty naff, but they
were cheap... and they kept up the free thinking that had
characterised computing up until the mid-80s
Josh Blacker wrote:
> Something of an, er, interesting comment beginning 7:11 on this video:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462104.stm
>
> The rest of the video is pretty boring, including the preceding section
> on 'Is Microsoft a monopoly?'.
Alan Sugar's business model is a strongly con
Something of an, er, interesting comment beginning 7:11 on this video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462104.stm
The rest of the video is pretty boring, including the preceding section
on 'Is Microsoft a monopoly?'.
--
All the best,
Josh Blacker
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