[ale] Future of linux (was: Skype)

[Charles Shapiro]

Android is indeed open source ( http://source.android.com/ ).  The software
which controls the radio in your smartphone is not, however.

-- CHS

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got into an argument on a Mac list  recently. The moderator of the list
> just insisted that MacOS was now out-selling Windows.  Freakin' crazy even
> to say that, IMO. Anyway, when I googled it, I found out that Android is
> the #1 operating system in the world. That's a linux fork, I think, but not
> open-source.
>
> I can see a day when we are all using giant tablets at work sort of like
> Star Trek. But I can't see a day when we don't type. There'd have to be an
> on-screen keyboard. But Android already has that, obviously. If you had a
> bigenough tablet, the on-screen keyboard could be the same as a real one.
> The only problem would be the lack of tactile features. Any decent typist
> does not look at the keyboard. They can type just as fast in complete
> darkness as they can in daylight. But even the best typistdepends on
> tactile features to find the home row, etc.
>
> Above I said I can't imagine us ever not typing. I acknowledge the
> possibility of there coming a day when keying in text is not the most
> efficient way of getting data into the computer. Sub-vocalization maybe?
> Thought detection? When my buddy had a baby, I said he should buy her one
> of those thought detection headsets so she would grow up interacting with a
> computer that way. Otherwise, she'll be like my dad trying to learn how to
> type in his old age. I grew up poundintg away at a keyboard and it comes
> naturally to me now. It's like learning a new language, you don't want to
> wait until you're old.
>
>
>
> On 09/11/2015 09:26 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 09:44 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>
>>> I can see a day when only businesses run Windows. Home users will prefer
>>> Linux because it will be THE system for gaming. Sadly, all the
>>> infighting with Linux will make us like the BSD people. It is ours to
>>> lose.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not so sure.  I think we'll see businesses take on whole-scale
>> adoption on the desktop first.  I'm already seeing its adoption in areas I
>> wouldn't have thought to see it in as a first-choice OS.  Mostly due to the
>> fact that someone can be told to go get a copy of Fedora of Ubuntu without
>> shelling anything out.  In today's world, that seems to be enough to
>> convince many people to give it a chance.  Particularly since it's no
>> longer the bastard child of design practices, in many cases.  When I first
>> starting using it, it was all functionality and no aesthetic.  How things
>> change.
>>
>> The view from the outside matters.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed it does.
>>
>>
>>>  Sam Axe: You know spies... bunch of bitchy little girls.
>>>
>>
>> Ahh, yet another show I started eons ago and need to finish...
>>
>>
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