2012 January 14 archive at Robert Pogson

Archive for January 14th, 2012

Bullies Take Their Lumps

Published by Robert Pogson January 14th, 2012 in technology. 55 Comments

It’s always fun to see the school-yard bully take his lumps:

The bullies of IT, Apple, M$ and Oracle have hardly gained any traction in their barrage of lawsuits and even book-sellers are beating them up. That public humiliation is adding to the decline in monopoly in IT. Going forward, everyone will seriously consider open standards in new systems and upgrades and monopoly will fade back into the swamp where it belongs, competing on price/performance. In the end the $billions the monopolists stole from the economy will become tiny compared to the rapid growth in global IT.

- Robert Pogson

General Purpose Computing

Published by Robert Pogson January 14th, 2012 in technology. 19 Comments

A recurrent theme seen here in comments and on the web is that the trends in IT are towards less general purpose computing and more specialization. e.g. tablets replacing PCs, cloud services replacing local applications, thin clients versus thick clients, and locked-down systems replacing run-anything hardware. Continue reading ‘General Purpose Computing’

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.