[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Chris Knadle]

On Friday 01 February 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ajai Khattri wrote:
> > I also believe that as more people are exposed to alternatives from home
> > or college, that alternative IT setups will become more common. We're
> > already seeing it happen.
>
> I'm older than both of you, so I'm more inclined to use a circular word
> like *cycle*.  I remember the IT world before Microsoft destroyed
> competition and innovation, so what I see in the pipe now looks more
> like a return to a better past than a new uncharted future.
>
> - Ron

   Yeah, I think Microsoft gained their original dominance by being cheaper, 
easier to use, and by running on cheaper commodity hardware.  However today, 
[cancel or allow], Windows is not quite as [cancel or allow] easy to use as 
it was, it's more expensive than the alternatives, and the hardware 
requirements are higher.  They have now made it to the other end that they 
originally competed against.  The only thing Windows has over alternatives at 
this point is market share, and that has proven not to be something stable in 
and of itself.
   I guess the history of computers may repeat itself too?


   Re: ZX80 -- I wonder if my parents still have the ZX80 and ZX81 we had.
We got the ZX80 in 1975.  Man that thing was awful.  Between the 1K RAM limit, 
the terrible membrane keyboard, and having to use a TV for an output screen 
that screamed an 18 KHz whine, I couldn't sit in front of that thing for more 
than about an hour.  That didn't matter, though: in one hour I could 
hunt-n-peck in a program and run out of RAM.  Geez.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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