On Thu, 21 May 2020, Larry Linder wrote: > So the world will migrate to a Chinese tablet or telephone and computers > for industrial and engineering will disappear. If you look at the > slippery slope we will slip back into the dark ages of DOS and Assembly. > There will not be enough of market for engineering and scientific > computers to make the high volume low cost possible. I've been fearing that since I heard that Dell had a line of cloud-optimised servers. > So much for negative stuff. > A university group or government lab in the US should offer a New SL and > maintain it. The gate keeper should keep it in US English. And please > no more cheese Icons. For those of us outside the US it isn't a given that a US base is in our best interests. For one thing that suggests that it will be commercial: SL only worked because it had a commercial product (RedHat) behind it. The strongest reason for us in the UK to want US rather than say German, is indeed the language (though I wonder whether the US will turn to Spanish ...) -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK [log in to unmask]