Author: leonid
Date: 17:10:52 11/29/99
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On November 29, 1999 at 19:17:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 29, 1999 at 18:55:52, leonid wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>What will the position of Windows in three or four years from now? >Nobody knows. Prognosticators are not very good at it. I once went to a >meeting where Microsoft officials said that "OS/2 is the wave of the future -- >all your design efforts should be bent in that direction." Your remembering of OS/2 is more that right. This is mainly thinking about the OS/2 dismay that I am so hesitant about choice of system. Do we still have OS/2 in this World? Start writing the complet game, that could take few years, and finish it for system that is already not there is not big fun. But to be sincere, I dream that Linux will become robust and omnipresent for all of us. Leonid. > >They could still be right, of course. > >>Will the >>recent High Court ruling against Microsoft influence this system? >Not much, if any. Mostly cheap, functional apps for that OS will drive sales. > >>And how much >>you expect that Linux will become prominent for the chess games? >It will probably pick up steam. Eventually I expect that developers will >discover that the Linux crowd is not very willing to spend money, though. Or >maybe all the transactions will be disguised as "service" just like Linux >itself. In any case, I think it is a good mix, as Linux and Chess are both >appealing to cerebral types.
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