21 Jun
2013
21 Jun
'13
10:57 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:04:39 +0100, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
And as I usually say -- and as usually gets completely
ignored -- I am
sure that the older, less-populist ways of doing things are not going
to instantly go away. They will still be available, especially in FOSS
systems, and as long as people want them and use them and are willing
to either keep them in active maintenance and development, or are
willing to pay someone to do so, then long may they persist.
Yes, you have said so.
For me, what is interesting is the direction that the mainstream of
the computer industry is going. It moves like an am?ba: it extends
exploratory pseudopods in multiple directions at once, and when one of
them finds an advantage -- or if you like, when it finds a toe-hold in
some niche -- then the rest of the organism goes that way.
Yes, but you are
equating the "mainstream of the computer industry" with
desktop machines, phones and Web servers, more or less. What I mean is
that those parts are a large portion of the computer industry, but not
necessarily the "mainstream". For very many applications of computers,
they are completely irrelevant. It is like saying that Hollywood is the
mainstream of the movie industry. True if you restrict the world to the
US and Europe, but if you look at the world as a whole, it is only a
part of the movie industry.
/Jonas