Governmental Operating System
Food for thought:
Imagine one operating system, funded by the UN, coded by programmers from all the UN nations for all language packages. This would be the best of microsoft, apple, linuxes all combined.
This would elminate all of our compatability issues and just have software companies battle for best software to run on this ultimate OS that would run on all computers.
This biggest dissadvantage for mac os in my oppinion is the low market share with less software.
The biggest dissadvantage for windows is the pos interface.
The biggest dissadvantage for linux is again, marketshare.
Imagine one operating system, funded by the UN, coded by programmers from all the UN nations for all language packages. This would be the best of microsoft, apple, linuxes all combined.
This would elminate all of our compatability issues and just have software companies battle for best software to run on this ultimate OS that would run on all computers.
This biggest dissadvantage for mac os in my oppinion is the low market share with less software.
The biggest dissadvantage for windows is the pos interface.
The biggest dissadvantage for linux is again, marketshare.
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--Paci
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Lexington is composed of mostly left winged rich jews and asians
The Italian tax calculator would only count half of what you put into it, and the french word processor would list all english words as misspelled!
Obvious problems:
"Designed by committee" is an insult for good reasons;
No operating system can - or should be - all things to all people. Server OSs can look arcane and bureaucratic to people used to desktop OSs, for example, because they serve completely different needs. Ditto embedded OSs.
International standards tend to codify existing practice to the greatest practicable extent, and that means that the result would look a whole lot like Windows.