Yes, not quite what I meant but precisely, precisely hehehehehe...It is
all to do with "collaboration" rather than "governing", EVERYTHING
"component based", OS gets created dynamically "on the fly", each
component is fully independent and "stand alone", hardrive, keyboard,
monitor, network cable, the lot, and when those devices start to
interact, they create temporary connections between themselves, and
constantly optimize the whole lot, it is always "commonality" which is
the biggest problem and who/what should be responsible for managing it,
control is power, any OS is like a Goverment: democratically chosen but
by using all political means available, never really giving us what we
really want, controlling, limiting and opressing us, conservative,
beaurocratic machinery with a very slow response to any change, that is
why, one of the whys, Linux is changing fast, it is a young,
revolutionary republic, revolutionary and violitile, can't be bothered
with spelling checker today, big coorporations burnt their fingers by
trying to make a quick buck out of similar scenarios before: investing
in all dodgy revolutionary countries, is it possible for "computers" to
exist without OS? Is it possible for a society to exist without any
Goverment? The Linux question is a hippie question and, in fact, it is
most likely that Linux IS just continuation of "hippism" but in much
more grown up and mature form, so we cannot have software without OS
because we cannot get rid of Goverments, so the next step is to create
a proper simulation of what's "outside", no OS to start with, each
device, each software creates its own virtual file systems and what
have yous, then some applications "collaborate" using some standard,
java, whatever, and create inter-application file systems with "pools",
so from now each application first of all looks for some good file
system it could hook itself up to and creates its own only if it
doesn't find any better ones....and that goes to everything else,
inter-device application level pools, inter-device-inter-application
device pools, "mega" pools, "mega-super" pools, it is a simple matter
of creating an environment which would stimulate the evolution, and
then there will be all this chosing and searching for and bargaining
for the best bit of this and that going on between software, and slowly
all the levels will be engulfed by this and we will have perfect
Goverment Administrative Pyramid, and then people will be able to chose
whatever they like, but not really, because they will be using the
software which is already "tied up" to this or other flavour of things
due to some political or economical reasons... so such software would
act as PM, and in theory we could put pressure and make our choice by
chosing our PMs, but in reality.... and hey presto we would end up
having exactly what we have already hehehehehe....and what I am talking
about is happening already anyway, but from the "other end" lol.... the
OS's are being taken apart and bits and pieces of responsibilities and
duties are being taken away from them by OpenSource and Portability and
all this carry on. So in theory they are getting slimmer and concerned
only with basic minimal life functions - as they should be. But since
anything abstracted tends to be many times over its original size, the
whole installation package is getting larger and larger and that, in
turn, fits yet again into this "pools and pools of pools" reality,
there are so many "services", "server processes", "listeners", "open
pipes", "ports" and other listening, and looking for and searching
happening inside one PC these days, no matter Linux or Windows, more on
Linux me thinks, the difference between "inside" and "outside" is
diminishing, the term "client-server" is gaining purely local context,
of course, the easiest way to adopt to all the unexpected scenarios an
outside world can throw at us is to create an outside world inside us
so we won't be even be able to tell the difference.

--- Paul Hussein <paul.hussein@gmail.com> wrote:

> You've got to look at this.
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http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
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> If you think of it, search google, someone has bloody done it.
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> What a cool piece of software.
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