The Paradigm of What To Do With An Original

Ahhh…the original versus the copied. The unique versus the duplicated. Playing a song like the record or doing it just for the jamming potential.

And with the recent release of the Windows 7 Operating system, the latest jab at the operating system is the idea of promises of improvement over the years through the statement, “…won’t have any of the problems (insert various versions here) had.” Now I might be off by a word or two used in the commercial being played as recently as today, but these needs for significant improvement have been no laughing matter for Microsoft over the years.

So, with all of the different operating systems available for personal computers, the shedding of these various skins poses a gradiating risk factor for each version and as each version ages, what of the previous versions, let alone the original notes that went into the first official release of said programming.

Open source programming principles offer potential for continued interest to be brought forth in connection to providing such a core element to computing, which is the operating system. It’s what helps the hardware make the jump from visible capacitors, resistors and other chips being attached to a motherboard into something able to play videos, record phone conversations, and yup…even posting to a blog.

Certainly, the longer a software program has been available, the greater the chances for an all or nothing circumstance in which the end result is incalculable in any direction. The more weaknesses/flexibility(?) identified, the longer the exploitation menu becomes, despite the relative nature of the interpretation of whether or not an alteration of original programming is a positive or negative. In some ways, an upgrade by the original designers is a financial exploitation of flexibility previously identified and classified as a format the designers find to be unacceptable.

Whereas Mac continues to exploit such frequent updating needs compared to Windows in their commercials, the Unix platforms and who knows what else is out there continues to exploit the popularity of the top two operating systems by either trying to stand out as highly unique and niche or more of a system for mass installation.

Since “exploitation” is a relative term, not all has been lost with each of these upgrades, especially when there is clear improvement from the first few rounds of updates…I’ve been thinking I’m too old to go switching my operating system mid-life and since I am stuck being a PC-based tech chick, I guess I’ll just chalk it up to having something to do with being 39 years old, still thinking 80’s music is totally awesome and having no major issues using Microsoft 2000 relative to what I use the computer for!