Consideration

I just recently blogged on this topic. It is actually my October 6, 2006 posting on this very page.

Please employ me as a professional analyst. I would accept the job of living somewhere in Virginia and examining these documents 40 hours a week plus projects for a reasonable salary and some level of immunity.

Let us also celebrate that China has unblocked wikipedia and has decided to not censor it. I have been praying about this. I am quite pleased with this activity and I will pray that it continues.


Now, businesses around America and the globe can likely save approximately 2/5 to 3/5 of Microsoft's annual revenue by switching to an open source OS and potentially open source office works. How much do our businesses spend on this annually? $45 billion? I read somewhere that it would require some $2K-$3K per user to upgrade to Vista. This probably accounts for a few extra sticks of RAM per device as well. Many businesses won't make this switch, and those that do, do not need to.

It would be cheaper for some large businesses to pay their tech sector or commission a free project to build Linux 2, designed to be widely-open compatible and user-structurable, if somewhat skeletonized. Linux 2 could also be pluggable like Mozilla, a framework of supporting code with suitable plugability for running programs that would be User Interface [UI], accessability and translatability, and device communication. I want it to be able to manually decipher USB communications, produce probable meanings based on HD-stored or server hubbed network databases, and for users to be able to customize the functionality of their joystick or printer's buttons in the way they communicate with the CPU.

You know, or whatever works for under 2-3K/head at your institution. Call the Nuremberg Valley of Germany. I bet they can help you. If America doesn't go open source next, let Europe do it and crush all. Bulgaria is already on the train!

Oh, about advertising dollars, Microsoft will need to join them or fight them, and fighting them will not be easy or legal. the real fulcrum rests with business' intelligence. While these stocks may not exist in their perfection, an officelike open source shell that does not rely on the internet is around the corner. When businesses look for a way to spend less on their software, they will find and make open source.

While pay-software will always exist, it is unlikely that it will be a requirement to pay for one drop of software. unless you like video games, which is something like a $30 billion world industry...