On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.
Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.