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En 1930, un año después de la Gran Depresión, John Maynard Keynes se sentó a escribir y pensar sobre las posibilidades económicas de sus nietos.

A pesar de la tristeza generalizada a medida que el orden económico mundial cayó de rodillas, el economista británico se mantuvo optimista y dijo que la “depresión mundial prevaleciente … nos ciega a lo que está sucediendo bajo la superficie”.

En su ensayo, predijo que dentro de 100 años, es decir, 2030, la sociedad habría de avanzartanto que apenas necesitaríamos trabajar. El principal problema al que se enfrentan países como Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos sería el aburrimiento, y la gente podría necesitar racionar el trabajo en “turnos de tres horas o una semana de 15 horas [para] aplazar el problema”.

Linux on the desktop is imminent because Microsoft will soon tire to Windows argues Open-source advocate Eric Raymond

“Microsoft Windows becomes a Proton-like emulation layer over a Linux kernel, with the layer getting thinner over time as more of the support lands in the mainline kernel sources. The economic motive is that Microsoft sheds an ever-larger fraction of its development costs as less and less has to be done in-house.

If you think this is fantasy, think again. The best evidence that it's already the plan is that Microsoft has already ported Edge to run under Linux. There is only one way that makes any sense, and that is as a trial run for freeing the rest of the Windows utility suite from depending on any emulation layer.

So, the end state this all points at is: New Windows is mostly a Linux kernel, there’s an old-Windows emulation over it.”

Thoughts?

How would you feel about a Linux Wiki, for cross-platform documentation?

Right now, Arch Wiki holds a lot of the best documentation. And it makes sense, since Arch is a DIY distro, so there needs to be a good manual to read, otherwise there is no distro.

But I'm not sure it's healthy to tie some of the best documentation to one distro. Sure, Arch ain't going away anytime soon, but what if there was also room for documentation of Debian or Gentoo software? What if, instead of fragmenting documentation for various programs across various sites, manuals and wikis, we had one central repository that built on the efforts of more specific sources? Not to mention that Arch pages tend to focus on making software work for Arch, obviously. A standard wiki would contain tutorials and tweaks for more distros.

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