How the Open Source Community should Respond to Longhorn
Posted: May 4th, 2004, 11:24 pm
Longhorn can easily be Microsoft's biggest blunder in their history. If its final release candidate ships with Palladium, their empire will fall instantly. Unfortunately, the U.S. Congress appears to be passing a law outlawing Palladium. The Open Source community needs another way out of this mess.
A few things have happened already. Mozilla and GNOME have teamed up to create a XAML compatible technology for Firefox. Also, Sun is working with X-Windows to create an Aero-like technology. This is good.
The other thing to consider, however, is WinFS. Linux kernel people must work with MySql to create extensions to Ext3 so that it is as searchable, etc. as Longhorn will be. It isn't that hard. It just has to be done if home users will use Linux.
On a side note to you software, music, movie, etc. piraters out there, say good bye to piracy in Longhorn if Palladium makes it in. You'll have to make your own Fritz chip to get around this one.
A few things have happened already. Mozilla and GNOME have teamed up to create a XAML compatible technology for Firefox. Also, Sun is working with X-Windows to create an Aero-like technology. This is good.
The other thing to consider, however, is WinFS. Linux kernel people must work with MySql to create extensions to Ext3 so that it is as searchable, etc. as Longhorn will be. It isn't that hard. It just has to be done if home users will use Linux.
On a side note to you software, music, movie, etc. piraters out there, say good bye to piracy in Longhorn if Palladium makes it in. You'll have to make your own Fritz chip to get around this one.