Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:44:31 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HAL must die! Message-ID: <4D80B0AF.50602@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20110316073045.5b0f876b@scorpio> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103061251530.95312@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <il2qar$ka1$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110307162153.0463fa73@atmarama.net> <AANLkTikrA3U9HDMQ%2BFekZzhOuM9q53k7jr3yvy9MLbeP@mail.gmail.com> <20110307170014.GB65289@guilt.hydra> <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> <4D8058C5.7070502@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110316073045.5b0f876b@scorpio>
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On 03/16/11 21:30, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:29:25 +0000 > Matthew Seaman<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> articulated: > > >> On 16/03/2011 00:37, Jerry wrote: >> >>> Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market share with >>> everyone else dividing up the remainder. If you are on a Microsoft >>> platform you use their products. The same applies to other platforms >>> and their utilities. >>> >> Microsoft may once have had 90% of the desktop market -- but is that >> still true? Macs seem to be everywhere nowadays. >> >> Also, how important is 'desktop' nowadays, compared to mobile browsers >> and the like? If the iPhone doesn't support Flash, then anyone with >> any sense is going to provide an HTML5 alternative. >> > There are numerous sites with purport to state the latest statistics > on OS usage, etc. This is just one that I have used before. I obviously > cannot verify its accuracy. As far as I can tell, it is an impartial > assessment. > > http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8 > > In an interesting side note, another article that I read recently and > am trying to locate at this moment states that 50% of users who > switched to MAC from Windows in the last 5 years are now seriously > considering dumping it and moving to a Windows 7 machine. Their biggest > complain was with the added complexity of doing routine tasks. A lack > of job specific software was also mentioned. Exactly what that entails > I have no idea. Apparently, keyboard users found Windows easier to use > and maneuver. I am a mouse person myself so I would not be able to > comment on that even if I used a MAC. > > In any case, the subject declaring "HAL must die" if no longer > relevant. It is all ready dead, except on FreeBSD. Even its author has > declared it so. The real question is how long are the developers of > the fragmented open-source community going to continue to display > testosterone poisoning by refusing to come together and develop one > common interface/API or whatever they want to declare it to be that > works on all the competing distros and thereby helps to unite the > open-source community? The sad part is even if that did happen, each > distro would then refuse to use it because it was not licensed according > to their own specifications. Yes indeed, you have to love standards, > there are so many of them. > I may be just talking shit here, but shouldn't there be some posix (or similar) specification for this? That would bypass the licensing requirements- right? Then the coding would be done by the licensor according to their own requirements, but the interface would be the same. Hell, by that reckoning even Winblow$ and Mac could get onboard if they chose too- not that anyone could see M$ coming to any open standards party where they don't think they could gain the upper hand :) Might diminish the pissing contest too...
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