[smc-discuss] A technical doubt

[Navaneeth.K.N]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jayadevan Raja
<jayadevanraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> This is a technical doubt, and not about any licensing.
>
> Why doesn't the free software community use something like JXOS
> (http://www.jxos.org/), and still continue to use traditional systems like
> GNU/Linux and Android/Linux? Microsoft camp has similarly not started using
> Singularity (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/). So,
> is the whole software ecosystem - both free and proprietary - sticking on to
> the old technologies just for backward compatibility?

I don't know about JXOS, but at least Singularity has got a long way
to go before it is ready for daily use. Right now they are nowhere
near to the contemporary operating systems. Let's wait for another 10
years and see.

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-n