Software rental, "trusted computing", etc. (was Re: Is this for real -- a new C64/128)

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue May 16 18:51:29 2000

>Unfortunately, though Bill Gates is not in the same camp with him, the
>billionaire CEO seems to think the public would benefit by paying for the
>hardware and the software more or less forever. I'm not in agreement with


Well remember the "users" in his world view rips him off.

>Just in case, however, you'd best not dispose of that old reliable hardware
>and software . . . it doesn't take up much space . . .


You bet.

An aside, I've worked with "thin" clients and they need to be resource rich
as network bandwidth is a fuel that makes them run instead of a local disk.
So swapping over the net is not workable. After all you need gigabit
eithernet to come close to DMA66 IDE disk performance!

Sounds like the old days, central computers and smart terminals.

Allison
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 18:51:29 BST