Carl,:"thin/fat". This is not easy to slant one way or another. I
see the need of ONE FAT machine per Household for the reason you
mention 'privacy'. The fat machine maybe cheap, but the software
is not cheap to keep up with.
As I type, you maybe right too. I could just buy one copy of the
software and move it around in the house (Manually) since the
software can be executed 'one at a time' not simultaneously on
multiple machines.
Nah, some kind of 'networking' is still required. Moving the software
around is only part of the problem, the data associate the software
still needs to be moved around.
Well, I just guide myself back to ONE-FAT and 'N-thin' with
Networking.
I would have the FAT one loaded with WinXX and Linux and the
THIN-ones with Linux(It's free and the networking is more stable
at this time, also there is lot of Free software on Linux).
An application is an application once it starts running. That's my
perception of software. If JVM is more readily availably than Linux
or winXX, then better.
Open, open, open. Choice, choice, choice. Could MSFT face the same
as INTC? Alternative OSs vs alternative CPUs. It's exciting time.
Who would think PC is good enough to be a Unix/Linux machine even
12 months ago? |
