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The growth of a technology company is to a certain extent a living thing and
like all life it must wax and wane, adapt itself and undergo trials and
transformations. The glory of computer companies is no exception to this rule.
It is unstable and liable to change, gorgeous one moment, gone the next,
sometimes as real and close as a cup of coffee carried in hand, sometimes as
unreal and remote as the moon shadow in water.
.......... While UNIX vendors were busy fighting each other, another operating system (OS) quietly emerged in the market with the will to dominate all computing systems. The OS was named Windows NT where NT stands for "new technology". .......... For the first time in computing history, the rise of the Windows Empire seemed to defy the rule of life. .......... While the Empire was trumpeting the glory and superiority of its OS, many computing professionals felt sad and lost about the end of the OS war. They grew sad because they had expected a unified OS and the gradual extinction of confusing versions to bring a brightening of technology and easing of human life, to advance humans a step closer to the brave new world, but now a mono OS seemed to have betrayed and deceived them inasmuch as it had brought them nothing but evil monopoly, power abuse, standards polarization, security breaching, illegal business tactics, and world wide virus threats. .......... Though the open-source concept was reliable, proclaiming order, promising duration, and renewing hope, the star was so dim, high and remote that hardly anyone outside the computing society would notice its existence and understand its philosophy. Seemingly so aloof and far and opposed to business concepts on earth, so hated by Windows Empire, the open source movement was long laughed at as child play. Slowly and lonely, the dim star moved across the dark sky along a fixed path. .......... |