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From: Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Qualcomm cancels Windows dev kit PC
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:48:44 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On 18 Oct 2024 19:10:33 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> The problem with being a widely used OS with thousands of 'must have' 
>> applications is you wake up to find yourself in a straight jacket. 
>
>The *nix ecosystem also has thousands of “must have” applications, and it 
>is older than Windows or even MS-DOS. Yet it has evolved in a much more 
>graceful fashion.
>
>The difference is that Microsoft’s platform has been victim to a long 
>succession of short-term, profit-driven decisions by managers and bean-
>counters, that have totally bit-rotted away any conceptual integrity the 
>architecture may originally have had. This happened to some extent with 
>the proprietary Unixes, too, but they are all dead now.
>
>So *nix as a living, breathing and still evolving concept, lives on as 
>Linux today. And it is now Windows that is desperately trying to copy from 
>Linux.


Good post.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.