| From: | "Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question) |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 13:29:15 -0700 |
> From: Ubiratan P. Alberton <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 12:54 PM
>
> Jeremy "Bolthy" Zimmerman escreveu:
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
> > > To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> > > Subject: Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
> > > Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 11:21 AM
> > >
> > > Guys the problem also is that a free product, doesn't have the
> > > same investments behind it, because there's little to no money
> > > being made. I love linux (and no my x-windows, doesn't look like
Win95:))
> > > but I still have to have a copy of Win95 for games, and MS Office.
> > > Linux has come a long way (although their NFS support still needs
some
> > > work), but its not the same. I haven't seen anyone writing huge mass
> > > market games for it, etc. Free software is wonderful, and it provides
> > > a challenge to the megas, but it would most likely always be seen
> > > in the hands of the "intellectuals" who liked to fiddle with
their
> > > OS, didn't mind things breaking, or writing it themselves. The masses
> > > want somebody to call when it breaks, and to be able to wonder
> > > down the store and by their programs. I don't see this changing even
> > > by 2050. This is all IMHO of course.
> > >
> >
> > So in the end you have the deckers running their own OSs on their
> > computers, and the standard users running some mass-marketed crap?
> >
> > Sounds about right.
>
>
> I prefer the other theory of the "unified OS" that came after the
> Crash, but with
> some twists: The base code for all systems is the same (ASIST), with
> each corp adding
> it's own "twist" to the system it makes in 2059. Mostly cosmetic
> changes, because everybody
> else will still use ASIST and major changes create incompatibility.
> ASIST would be
> currently in version 7.0, because it's the 7th generation of decks now.
>
I don't have any of my fluff books at hand, but I thought ASIST was the
simsense interface... I'd view that more on par with drivers for my monitor
than as an OS. Hmmm... I wonder if it's a matter of computers being more
modular... =T
