[geeks] [rescue] Ultra 5 OS

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 27 April 2010, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> Mendelson's law (number 1): Microcomputer people consider it their
>  g-d given right to make the same mistakes that mainframe people did
>  30 years earlier.

Such as?

Virtualization?
Channels? (Fiberchannel, Infiniband)
OSes with unaffordable maintenance contracts you legally have to 
purchase? (Oracle Solaris)
Scaring people into not trying to use the first-sale doctrine with 
software they paid for? (virtually all proprietary software)

Oh, maybe you mean Open Source software.  Yeah, true, IBM is really 
screwing the pooch by adopting that one... ??  At least for those who 
are uncomfortable with not paying money for software, companies like 
RedHat and Novell/SuSE have managed to productize it. (also Apple with 
Darwin/OS X)

Pat
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