RE: [tlug] TRON / Ken Sakamura in 2003.07.17 Japan Times

[patrick.niessen@example.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Muller [mailto:acmuller@example.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:51 PM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: [tlug] TRON / Ken Sakamura in 2003.07.17 Japan Times
> 
> 

> Does he ever talk about Linux? No. All he ever talks about is 
> TRON, TRON, TRON, and how everything else is totally useless. 

Do you ever talk about Windows? No. All you ever talk about is LINUX, LINUX,
LINUX, and how everything else is totally useless;-) 

> Sakamura is treading in a funny area when he makes the kinds 
> of statements that he does in that article, especially when 
> he mentions that he could have been rich. This is related to 
> the point about immense national funding that I mentioned in 
> my prior post. Whatever we might say about Gates, at least 
> his initial success was due to his own cleverness and savvy. 

I think that the reporter said that he could have been rich if TRON would
charge license fees.  According to the article I read today, he is happy
with his current income.  Obviously, if TRON was charging a license fee it
would be doubtful if so many companies would use it.

Bill Gates never actually created anything himself.  Most MS history is of
buying things from other people and then repackaging the stuff and selling
it more expensive.  He is arguably a clever marketeer / sales person.

> As far as the figure of "%60 share of microprocessors" is 
> concerned: this is misleading, because it gives people the 
> impression that 60% of actual computing is done on TRON. The 
> fact that tiny microprocessors in dumb little devices are 
> using bits of TRON code does not it any way bring it to a 
> level of comparability to the major operating systems.

Maybe so, and maybe the development was inefficient and wasteful but the
point should be: Is TRON any good now?  I think there is the right tool for
each job.  So lInux works good on PCs, but do we have to make such strenuous
efforts to fit a monilithic kernel into a small memory?  Task oriented OSes
may be better suited.  What is the architecture like of TRON.  If the code
is free and good, why not copy some of it to Linux and vice versa?

Patrick