The Next Five-Year Plan

[CFjohnny55]

It starts in January of 2020 with the end of Microsoft support, callously cut-off, ruthless business model. Good, I like it that way. No hard feelings at all, just winners and losers in the end.



Can this renegade era for recalcitrant Windows 7 users lead to a bridge with Linux? We know not to turn to Microsoft! We are not the mercenaries who will blindly 'follow the money' regardless of who has it, or can control it. The only innocent left in the computer game, is and has been for forty years, is UNIX and Linux.
We can thank AT&T for creating UNIX, and then for giving away the complete specification for a true OS to the world. Compromise has lead us to where we are now. The last hopes of Digital Equipment Corporation, VMS and the AXP, where bungled by Microsoft and Intel. Intel was busted as a blatant, and bungling, thief. As for Microsoft, well they did all that they could under limited circumstances, and it is over. Can we help to empower the Linux community during these five years of betrayal to the mother company? There will no quarter shown for us when 2025 arrives. Don't get mad -- Get ready.

 

[CFjohnny55]

If you granted me the indulgence of just reading my opening remarks, then I am already in your debt.

 

[z3r010]

"ruthless business model" FFS

You do realize they offered everybody a free upgrade?

 

[Paul Black]

"ruthless business model" FFS

You do realize they offered everybody a free upgrade?

Well said z3r010.

 

[CFjohnny55]

I did have a concern about that appendage, and I thank you for pointing it out. I stand corrected, but the post must stand as is. I cannot retract a statement I have made in the public forum and still call myself above some crawling life form.

 

[CFjohnny55]

To address each of you gentlemen, let me say this to z3r010. I do not believe in 'free' (economics). And this to Paul Black, repetitions are the simplest of nature's patterns.

 

[RoWin7]

Now we know why Win10 was free. And enough people are being charged for new copies to make up for the free ones. I had XP on my 2 machines, couldn't upgrade.

You know the joke about a camel being an animal designed by a committee?

I have no problem. Keeping 7 on all my machines.

 

[CFjohnny55]

D'accord, Ro@Win7! (What a shame about the bombers' management in the ALCS. Only umpires may invoke the rain-delay rule.)

 

[RoWin7]

You're not going to see big Linux displays and posters in the computer stores or ads on TV. Most Windows users have never heard of it. It's unfortunate :-( We can promote it online and through our PC user groups.

 

[CFjohnny55]

I cannot disagree. I heard some remark on the news about MS wanting desperately to control Linux-world, and the top Linux people were not concerned. The likes of DJ Delorie cannot be bought, and the future seems to be the hands of this 1% club. We can join with them and bring users with open minds, and a bitter taste in their mouths, as we learn about this brave new world they are creating, and all of it is free by mandate! I do have a Debian-laptop and even Firefox is not allowed to use either its logo (fox over globe) or its name as they are trade-marked! So, it is called 'IceWeasal' in pristine fashion. Open software seems impossible to a MS-based mindset. Skype would have been a world-wide revolution in user telecommunication, but when 8 devoted and talented programmers are offered 8 Billion Dollars ... they cannot refuse a 'rags to riches overnight transform', and so Skype was lost to us all.

 

[RoWin7]

Haven't used Skype lately. Is it down the tubes since MS bought it?

 

[CFjohnny55]

When it was consumed by MS at this obscene value 8 years ago it was the hottest thing in global telecom. A cousin of mine used it to stay 'in touch' with her kids at home from work. She called it, "The only thing from 'The Jetsons' that actually came to be for real." Imagine a planet where all women could see their kids, and their kids were delighted to be seen by Mom, with child like ease at a laptop. Where would such a technology naturally go? And has Skype stayed on its most likely outcome curve? It would be a revolution of such magnitude that world-wide telecom traffic would zoom to saturation within, say, 3 years. The huge morass of digital telephone signals would quickly overwhelm any data gathering apparatus set up as national security.
Mine is just one 'thumbnail analysis' of many, and so you must choose what analytic conclusion that you most believe in. And when you have made your choice, believe in it! It is a free and fair world by design.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

"ruthless business model" FFS

You do realize they offered everybody a free upgrade?

More like a downgrade. And you paid a "price".

 

[CFjohnny55]

Lady Fitzgerald -- You must be a member of the Kitchen Table Economic Policy Analysis Group.
Indeed, everything in life has a value and a price. But some people still believe in free, and I do not dispute them, but I do not believe there is any 'free'. There is however, cheap, where cheap means good value for a low price, and not inherently low quality. I suppose there is good cheap and bad cheap, but there ain't no free. You can quote me on that sentence.

 

[NoN]

Well, everybodies know nothing is free in the business concern and an upgrade offer is certainly not free either (devoid of interest, let's say).

Now the question is, how is your habilities to not or agree falling onto/into the supposed trick behind the shiny facade. May I or not?

 

[CFjohnny55]

Yours is a good question, and I defer to some others to address it. I already post here too much!

 

[NoN]

That's just reach the free will, after some intense self-debates (with struggling mind effects). No need to picture me the final day of january 2020.

 

[CFjohnny55]

Will the dire wolf be coming then? ... Do you feel lucky, or insecure?

 

[NoN]

Aha...humm, at the moment riding in the spaceship Nostromo w/Alien. MS will have to wait because that movie had severals suite. But Ripley is a good soldier and will come back home once again the target safely parameter. That could mean an upgrade to your eyes? Why not!

Edit: I think already Sony and Pioneer announced their end of support for Windows 7 by January 14th...

 

[CFjohnny55]

It is said that the rats know when to desert a sinking ship. But who wants rats anyway? Yes, I am prepared. I have ONE Win10 machine that will be my lone presence on the Internet. The rest will run under that layer on a second network adapter. I won't need any 'Win 7 support', and Win 7 runs hot for me.