Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:03:35 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Teams for Linux Message-ID: <20200510000335.340c1876@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20200509214939.aa081d47e0c5c8d7533c191e@sohara.org> References: <b64d57e2-f4d7-7618-c711-6501a652a6ac@suszko.eu> <fecdd83b-2061-a6c0-f927-c380cbc2b500@suszko.eu> <a0828175-6f75-92c4-ab48-bfd395e1a91d@suszko.eu> <ce6fe689-777f-7285-3483-76fb73ea3e82@suszko.eu> <f3a86f00-7e81-ec9d-2f29-c4d9bc3e0094@lidstrom.eu> <b28e6141-04bc-4f66-93e3-658929500c0c@suszko.eu> <CAM8r67Boe0dQt%2B1T8rdoubxNKaeDCaQ5UkY1nThM8UahF=WU3g@mail.gmail.com> <20200508113438.00006adc@seibercom.net> <CAM8r67DqhC37qoU99iBXPvSZAVVPezPCfKipOD-2xiig95-0TA@mail.gmail.com> <20200508185327.00007397@seibercom.net> <20200509063222.94d762e9751a32c693d73d2f@sohara.org> <20200509062517.00002c46@seibercom.net> <20200509121604.b385c38e8ad5518c9a571ef2@sohara.org> <20200509135024.d3ace507.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200509085553.00006a3a@seibercom.net> <20200509173218.7c1bec97.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200509125203.000036a2@seibercom.net> <20200509200216.10081e72@archlinux> <20200509160537.000068b7@seibercom.net> <20200509214939.aa081d47e0c5c8d7533c191e@sohara.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 9 May 2020 21:49:39 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >The factors driving the rise of the home and small business >microprocessor based computer was the availability of microprocessors >and associated components and Moore's law. There were plenty of people >in the game, someone else would have risen to the top. Exactly, for example: "The Xerox Alto is the first computer designed from its inception to support an operating system based on a graphical user interface (GUI), later using the desktop metaphor.[7][8] The first machines were introduced on 1 March 1973,[9] a decade before mass-market GUI machines became available." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto "Alan Kay (one of the inventors of Smalltalk) also described a tablet computer he called the Dynabook [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook ] which resembles modern tablet computers like the iPad." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Influences The know how and the ideas existed, the IC chips became better and less expensive. A lot of people are business experts. Somebody else would have taken the chance to rush into this business. It would have been no problem without a Bill or Steve. It's not that likely that without Albert, somebody else's theories related to time, would be useful in the field, for technology such as GPS. Bill and Steve are most likely easy to replace by thousands of business wo/men, Albert and similar people are unlikely easy to replace by somebody else. FWIW off-list I got a hint referring to the OP ;). Perhaps it's better to care about this hint and to discontinue this thread.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20200510000335.340c1876>