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Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 23, 2012 21:50 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by Cyberax
Parent article: Quotes of the week

And speaking of museum exhibits, do you know that Linux is obsolete from the very start and should be in a museum along with all others obsolete monolithic OSes?

Sure. In dreamland of eggheads it was obsolete before it was even born. In real world it's quite actual and will serve us well till the architecture will remain similar to Von Neumann one.

And when it'll finally break apart (right now it's creaking, but stays: we no longer have Von Neumann architecture but we do have an illusion of one) all these managed languages will be put on exhibition in museum near Linux as relicts of the past.

Which will be a pity because Linux at least solves real problems while all the creations solve the problems which don't really exist.

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Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 24, 2012 0:53 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

No, by your logic Linux should have been put directly into museum. After all, a hobbyist/skunkworks project which uses obsolete ideas can't succeed.

It's certainly possible, even quite likely, that Midori won't lead to anything new. However, its successor eventually would. That's the nature of research.

For example, IBM is developing lithium-air batteries that have been in development for more than 30 years. Should the abandon it, since so far it's only been sucking money?