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OSBC Panel Looks at the Future of the OS (eWeek)
OSBC Panel Looks at the Future of the OS (eWeek)
Posted Mar 28, 2008 20:29 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)Parent article: OSBC Panel Looks at the Future of the OS (eWeek)
Later in the article James Hughes (Sun V.P.) observes
So, the future of the operating system is to enable application developers to get their work done.which puts me in mind of one of my favorite quotations, from Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning was the Command Line:
Applications create possibilities for millions of credulous users, whereas OSes impose limitations on thousands of grumpy coders, and so OS-makers will forever be on the shit-list of anyone who counts for anything in the high-tech world.
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