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To: jrhana who wrote (43074)	6/22/2007 2:31:02 PM
From: philv	Respond to of 78430

The solution is to avoid Stockhouse. I get it whenever I log onto Stockhouse.ca Lack of traffic to Stockhouse will cost them plenty, and in the end, money is the only thing that matters.

To: jrhana who wrote (43074)	6/22/2007 3:38:40 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78430

You are getting close. Far off topic but commercially so --> The stake should really be reserved for the people who made the operating system that makes all this necessary. Linux does not need defragmentation, drive cleaning, registry fixing or speeding up.. it opimizes itself. Of course the whole problem of a software applications base is a tad thorny, as is the economic model of writing programs for Linux, but once we overcome these smallish obstacles and enter the free new world of os's that don't spoil your life, and HAVE NO VIRUSES to boot, then we can move on. I have told people for ten years that a commercial version of Linux properly documented and simplified would be worth a billion dollars in sales a year.. and it could be done. Red Hat was a brave but amateur attempt. Have to come to terms with the Gnu public license and get a platform that does not constrain one to make one's work free. Then programmers will vend/port their wares for/to your platform. The genius would be to satisfy the freebie crowd who want to distribute stuff you have to compile, and people who want to make money vending software. In other words make the rice krispies on viable software that is presumably testable and needed. The intellectual hurdle for the people who don't yet understand the OS wars is how to leverage 10,000 free programmers AND get an overlying shell that is commercial, yet fits the ongoing adaptation of the underlying free platform and bypasses the GPL which is based Richard Stallman's false claim that he wrote all the utilities that made Linux an OS. He stole them and compiled them with some buggy rewrites. I don't think that denoates ownerhip even if he clean-roomed it, which he did not. 10,000 professors wrote unix tools, as buggy as they were, not Richard Stallman as smart as he is. Sun showed it could be done (write really workable modern graphic shell for the unix operating engine to illustrate what I mean here, Windows 3.11 did the same thing for DOS, although windows 3.11 was a Sopwith Camel, Sun wrote a Lear Jet ) and then they abandoned their baby in favour of Java, believe it or not. They have also shown it can be done for documents with the PDF (generator) version, Acrobat. HTML was brave but flawed attempt to bypass Word Processors in part at least. It never went far enough as it did not have pagination. (the ability to make the documents fit paper page boundaries. Try printing a web page and you will see what I mean. Try writing a web page and making a table of, or just making the pictures and text exactly where you want them as a further exercise of frustration and needless complexity. If it had this capability, MS Word would be redundant wouldn't it? Berners-Lee was brilliant but he stopped when the house was half built. Not that the mansion was easy to build, but it should have been bricked in. Perhaps the foundation needed shifting, and perhaps a duplex was needed, but something was needed. ) People are stupid, the use a wrench constantly and don't understand its capability, then look at an electric wrench working and say, 'what is that?'.. we are neandrathals. BTW this stuff pops up on SI too, so it could be some sort of virii. EC<:-}