Am 22.03.2013 20:31, schrieb Joe Zeff:
On 03/22/2013 11:53 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> Years ago, when I took a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering course,
> our instructor talked hopefully, even dreamily, of a future in which all
> applications, including word processors, would be back-end applications.
> He even named Microsoft's project along this line: Microsoft
> Back-office. As he told it, the back-end application would do all the
> heavy lifting. It would create the file, save it to a directory with
> your username and password, send you a printer-friendly page when
> needed, and everything.
And, of course, it comes with the ultimate vendor lock-in: no way to pirate software when
it's never on your
machine in the first place
and smart people do not want to support vendor-lockins with
linux clients, but smart people are rare i feel