[OT] Re: [ILUG] VMWare offer at the moment

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

> You're saying basically that windows is good enough for everything 
> but some rare corner cases.
> 
> regards,

What I'm saying is that with closed source software nobody really knows that a) 
Newtonian physics isn't always right b) even if case a is wrong, those people 
can't fix it c) even if those people were Einstein and could come up with 
General relativity, it's probably likely they'd never get to see the theory 
behind the outputs of Newtonian_algorithm(x) and thus General relativity would 
be less likely to have been proposed.

Which follows that Quantum mechanics would similarly be less likely to have 
been invented.

If you were Closed_Source_Monolithic_Newtonian_Physics_Evil_Empire(vendor(x)); 
would you really consider signing an NDA, with a penniless 26 year old Swiss 
Patent clerk, which a funny moustache?

In fact, without disclousure and peer review, we probably never got away from 
the whole

"The world clearly sits on the back of a giant Turtle" a la Windows FUD, 
buzzwords, magic technology and soundbites.

Nothing like a Windows integrated XML parser, to install on your toaster with 
Windows CE, running WINFS[1], so that you can trust (tm) that Microsoft will 
automagically update your toaster to make your toast the perfect shade of 
white, where the actual toasting process may take place after the next (paid 
for) service pack.

[1] Expected sometime around the turn of the decade, right after Microsoft is 
finished trying to catch up with Oracle, before integrating SQLServer into it's 
filesystem...... *doh*.


-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
Embedded Software Engineer

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