If Ever Linux Rules.... - Kioskea

Mr Ashutosh Mishra

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Let's dream a little bit... What if you could add whatever you want in Linux that would make it so powerfull it would definetly dethrones Windows. I'm sure you already thought of that. Let see if our suggestions match...

Can you think of any changes that will take place if Linux dethrones Windows and Microsoft goes broke? Well, I just thought it over and these ideas came to my mind. Most of them are fictional and are meant for amusement only. Hope you enjoy!

Penguins will be a happy lot. They will send lots of flying kisses from the Antarctic. Some will even swim north to meet their celebrity cousin, Tux.

The guys at Google will be on wild celebration. Some of the Microsoft folk will join Al Qaeda to drop bombs on the Google office.
Antivirus companies will close down. Headed by Symantec, they will open their own bakeries.
Less PC users will die from the shock of getting a blue screen of death, or on finding all their important documents and photos missing.
On the contrary, death rate among illegal hackers will rise surprisingly. Some will start funding Microsoft to revive the good old days of Windows. Some others will try to target Linux, only to be pecked away by Tux.
Ships usually sink due to storms, faulty technique or accidents with icebergs. But now more ships will sink due to overloading of the free Ubuntu ShipIt! CDs.
Intel Pentium will rise again - most Linux distributions run super fast on Pentium IV and 512 MB RAM without ever slowing down!
Steve Ballmer will be caught using Linux on his PC. Reason - Windows Vista too heavy on the poor guy's pocket!
Devastated, Adobe will slash the price of Photoshop from $700 to $7.00. People will still prefer the free and open source GIMP.
Linux users will become game maniacs as the gaming companies turn their attention to Tux.
Names like Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player will be featured in history books.
Computer viruses will disappear. Biological viruses will be happy again - they will be no longer ignored like they were in the days of the computer virus. A search for "virus" in Google will display results for biological viruses, and not the computer ones, at the top. To show their gratefulness to Linux users, the viruses will stop spreading AIDS.
Netscape Navigator will rise again and will be an instant hit. However, there will be no enmity with Firefox or Flock.
Torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Mininova will join already dead rival Demonoid, in Hell.
Apple's happiness at Microsoft's ruin will be cut short by Linux's domination. However unlike Microsoft, Linux will recognise Apple for it's rock solid operating system, Mac OSX.

Alas! Linux is not going dominate the PC world and Microsoft is not becoming a "who-cares?" entity in the foreseeable future . I have been a full time Ubuntu user myself for almost a year and I find it pretty solid, but there are definitely some small improvements needed to make it a serious contender of Windows. And Windows users, please don't think I hate Windows or anything! I like both Windows XP and Windows Vista. As you can see, PC Ton!c is almost entirely about Windows.

Article originally published on: PC Ton!c

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How about:
*Linux book writers put desktop GUI's in the front of the book and terminal use in the back.
*Linux books written for normal computer users instead of system admin and programmers.
*Buck tight organizations like charities and libraries use Linux instead.
*Education cost slashed by using and teaching Linux, nation wide, in America!
*"Silicon Pirates" movie remake shows them getting whipped by a Linux community effort.
*Dynamic Duo (MS and Mac) gives way to the Three Musketeers (MS, Mac and Linux).
*Feature length movies in Flash and Ogg formats.
*Three fingered salute (ctrl-alt-del) replaced with (ctrl-alt-backspace). Millions need physical therapy and/or retraining.
*Computer annoyances and technical problems cut in half by Linux use. The technical support market takes a big hit. The president is concerned.
*Tux appears on Wheaties box, then on Oprah.
*Linus becomes popular middle name. He really is Batman!
*Max Headroom is resurrected as open source security application, look out AI.
*MS Windows is rewritten from scratch.
Comment by Arnold L. Johnson - 3 Mar, 2008 08:10 pm

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