| inspired question: what if MS got liquidated? |
by jaqie |
2009-04-02 14:21:33 |
First please be realistic in this, some people whether it be good or bad are hopelessly dependent on windows, and so are some businesses, it wouldnt just disappear to a linux only world.
My take on it is that at first nobody would step up to the plate, sure there would be fragmented responses from various linux distributions, but the current retail and beta MS OSes would become the defacto standard, and it would be a slow transition from MS themselves to third parties offering patches for the current available OSes... then slowly the current big name hardware makers would begin writing more then just drivers, patches to windows more then anything. At the same time adoption of linux would skyrocket, and development and fragmentation would reach all time highs in the linux community. Projects like ReactOS would kick into overdrive to make an open source replacement to the now defunct windows OS and some would be pretty successful, maybe some would come out better then before.
The economy itself would be not much worse off then it is now, just another big business dying... people would panic but then eventually realize many people still run XP and 2000 and realize the world will still be fine for a while without a new OS from the big window pane - the government would step in and make sure that patches and such would at least be available for a while as it is such a necessary part of our infrastructure. |
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More likely, | by hadji | 2009-04-02 14:31:05 |
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Exactly. IP just doesn't disappear. (n/t) | by Adiplomat | 2009-04-02 14:51:29 |
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Perhaps Apple would do it | by sonja | 2009-04-02 14:55:13 |
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IF MS got liquidated | by DesertRat66 | 2009-04-02 14:32:33 |
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Heretic! | by hadji | 2009-04-02 14:39:02 |
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*keeps hearing the opening scene in halo2* (n/t) | by jaqie | 2009-04-02 14:43:05 |
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If life is better off without walls and fences | by wabbit65 | 2009-04-02 17:18:25 |
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Indeed | by UGuardian | 2009-04-02 14:48:33 |
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Depends what you mean by liquidated | by basher20 | 2009-04-02 14:56:04 |
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Maybe not one company to buy it as a whole. (n/t) | by ripley8 | 2009-04-02 15:24:40 |
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It would collapse the economy of Washington | by subbywan | 2009-04-02 14:56:48 |
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similar to what happened to NC triangle | by jaqie | 2009-04-02 14:58:47 |
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a lot more dramatic, i think | by subbywan | 2009-04-02 15:04:08 |
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Who gets the IP? | by RetiQlum2 | 2009-04-02 15:01:55 |
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You forgot about the software vendors. | by Adiplomat | 2009-04-02 15:07:04 |
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Yeah, I didn't think about middleware either. (n/t) | by RetiQlum2 | 2009-04-02 15:16:17 |
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A group of wealthy, bright investors would | by Lab Rat | 2009-04-02 15:12:32 |
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Headed by a nice young man, Gil Bates? (n/t) | by subbywan | 2009-04-02 15:38:32 |
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:-) (n/t) | by Lab Rat | 2009-04-02 15:44:01 |
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It wouldn't surprise me. | by RetiQlum2 | 2009-04-02 16:59:20 |
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eh edison | by jaqie | 2009-04-02 17:25:18 |
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I doubt the similarities are lost on us geeks. | by McNutcase | 2009-04-02 18:09:48 |
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I picked all three of them for very specific... | by RetiQlum2 | 2009-04-02 21:01:48 |
