At 11:46 2003-12-15 -0500, JoeHill wrote:
I've been reading articles like this for years now, in various forms
that the home desktop PC is a flawed and obsolete model, and that all of our software should be run from secure servers instead.
Personally, they can take my desktop when they pry it from my cold dead hands, but I'm curious about how others see this issue. Of course there's nothing *inherantly* wrong with relinquishing some control to networked servers, but dare we trust our software when we don't have ultimate control over it locally, especially when we are talking about proprietary, closed source software
proclaiming that we
cannot see what's "under the hood"?
Well, I have become very comfortable indeed trusting proprietary software. But I do not willingly extend that trust in the PC world. It is with the IBM iSeries and its predecessors that--after long experience--I feel so comfortable. BTW, I have *earned* these grey hairs. My experience extends back to the time when proprietary mainframe operating systems came with source code. But times change. The bad news is that I can no longer submit patches with my bug reports on system software. The good news is that I scarcely remember the last time I saw a bug in the system software. Terry.
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