I wouldn’t go that far. Something like this is seen as poison to any external market. You can be assured this has everything the CCP has required of it, including encryption backdoors and monitoring features for everything the user does.
Anyone else would be crazy to use it. If anything, let them do this, I’ve no issue. They’ll soon find that actually trying to advance technology themselves, instead of steal/copy+1, is more resource intensive than they realize. The depth of features that OS’s like iOS and Windows handle isn’t something that can be easily replicated without the source code (ok, maybe they stole that too!). I’d also argue this isn’t something global device makers are eager to support, so writing device drivers to support this OS might be a challenge - which would be a constant drag on supporting the latest technologies.
It’s also “security through obscurity”, not transparency, like Linux. I’d argue that it’s ripe for being vulnerable, an entire OS that has not endured decades of attacks from around the globe. I’d bet there’s folks in Mossad & CIA that are drooling over the possibilities.
IMHO - this is more of a threat to Microsoft, as it’s the go-to corporate OS. Why they didn’t start with the Linux kernel is just bizarre. It’s a proven, scalable, hardened, real-time capable, OS with thousands of device drivers. Does this OS scale across multi-core? The data-center? Maybe - but the world wouldn’t touch this with a 10’ pole.
| Thanks fuzzylogic, for a clear, informed, and not-fuzzy-at-all analysis of what the CCP is planning and why it's probably a dumb idea. 25 years ago I learned how to use Microsoft's Visual FoxPro, a 32-bit object-oriented system designed for building all kinds of data-driven custom software and web-based documents and sites. It's my reason for sticking with Microsoft OSs even though the software is no longer "supported" officially. Android is a joke by comparison. It's not a true open computing environment. Heck, I just bought a Lenovo Tab, a mid-range Android tablet. It's great for watching downloaded videos and music, but it simply doesn't allow you to create your own dynamic HTML documents with Javascript or audio, etc. It's just a money maker for buying add-on games and software, not something you can customize to run a business with... |