Open Ballot: what is the biggest threat to the future of Linux?
Posted at 5:08pm on Tuesday April 27th 2010
For our next podcast, we'd like to know what you think is the biggest threat to the future of Linux. We'll discuss the results, along with our own ideas, in our next episode, available on Thursday. Please leave some sort of name alongside your thoughts so that we don't end up reading out 20 comments from Anonymous Penguin!
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PDAs and Clouds are killing Linux
rnojonson (not verified) - July 7, 2010 @ 6:39pm
If we are talking Linux on the server, there is no threat.
If we are talking Linux on the desktop it is PDA/cell devices and cloud computing in it's various forms and spins. The idea of the personal computer is being eroded by the network (grid) device and the personal communicational device. Soon we will have generic yet high access iPDAs where you pay for features and apps and access. PCs will do the exact same thing. Man, it is just like a power utility company. You lease the equipment, pay for access and service apps and have limits and restrictions on use.
I'm starting an off-grid PC movement, "Save the personal PC", "Power to the PC!", "the blue gnu PC preservation society". I will sponsor un-networking seminars and write the book "too many networks and the demise of privacy" and now that closets are vacant, "how to repurpose a closet for private PC use." A movie about the unconnected and data vagrants who stop you on the street and talk to you.
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