The Cloud and Future Innovation: Nuclear Winter or New Opportunity?

“Just kidding. In all honesty, it did go well, and was more of a
long discussion than a full-blown speech, since I am big on
interaction. The topic of the discussion is “Linux Everywhere You
Want It,” with the idea that with Linux being pretty much
everywhere in platform-space today, the idea of the traditional
desktop paradigm is evolving from the
sit-on-the-PC-with-files-and-folders model to
anything-that-can-provide-a-good-window model.

“The big drivers for this shift, in my opinion, are two-fold:
first, the flexibility and stability of Linux allows it to be
ported to all of these different platforms, which forms a great
basis for the growth of this new model. The second, which is no big
surprise, is the cloud. After all, the platform-as-a-window model
only works if there’s something good to look at. If my bay window
looks out over an alley rather than a river, you can see how it
wouldn’t have much appeal.”

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