Everybody knows the old joke (Fake, of course) in which Bill Gates had said during a speech at COMDEX, that if the automotive industry had ridden technological progress as well information technology, today the car would costerebbeto $ 30 and 3000 km with one liter of gasoline , receiving the response of the observation that if the car industry had followed the same path as the computer:
1) The car crashed twice a day for no apparent reason.
2) Every time you refer to the markings should buy a new car.
3) Sometimes, run as a normal operation, turn left off would irreversibly the car and there would be no other way out but to reinstall the engine.
4) Whenever the car is turned off for no reason on the highway, motorists should be prepared to restart it without protest and accept this as a normal part of any trip.
5) By car there could be only one person at a time, save or buy Car95 CarNT [history and 'antiquated, Ed] and purchase additional seats apart.
6) Apple would produce a car with solar energy, reliable, five times more 'fast and twice as' easy to drive, but would cost 100 times more' and could travel only about 5% of the roads [and perform only maneuvers that Steve Jobs approves, Ed].
7) Le spie di olio, temperatura e alternatore verrebbero sostituite da una singola spia di "errore irreversibile dell'automobile".
8) I sedili sarebbero conformati in modo da costringere tutti ad avere il sedere delle stesse dimensioni.
9) L'airbag chiederebbe "Sei davvero sicuro? SI/NO" prima di gonfiarsi.
10) Occasionalmente, e per nessuna ragione apparente, l'auto vi chiuderebbe fuori e si rifiuterebbe di farvi rientrare a meno che afferriate l'antenna della radio mentre girate la chiave e tirate la maniglia dello sportello.
11) Ogni volta che un nuovo modello viene introdotto, bisognerebbe reimparare a guidare perche' nessuno dei controlli funzionerebbe alla stessa maniera di prima [questo gia' succede se si compra un'auto francese, NdE].
12) Bisognerebbe premere il bottone "Start" per spegnere il motore.
Tutto vero e divertente, ma in realta' ci dice solo cosa succederebbe se l'industria automobilistica avesse seguito il pattern di sviluppo di Microsoft (ed Apple, vedi punto 6), non quello dell'industria informatica in generale.
Sono sicuro che alcuni dei miei colleghi seduti ad una o due scrivanie da me potrebbero raccontarvi cosa sarebbe oggi l'industria automobilistica se avesse seguito il pattern di sviluppo dei mainframe IBM - ad esempio, ne sono certo, che l'auto puo' svoltare solo se una formale richiesta di cambio di direzione viene presentata due giorni prima ed approvata da tutti i passeggeri; ma da stamattina ho cominciato a chiedermi cosa succederebbe se l'industria automobilistica fosse open source. Linuxiana, diciamo. L'idea, onestamente, mi riempie di terrore.
1) Le auto sarebbero distribuite gratuitamente. Chiunque sarebbe in grado di assemblarle in modo che riescano a fare il giro dell'isolato prima di perderne completamente il controllo e doverle ricostruire da zero. Pochi, strapagati ingegneri diventerebbero ricchi assemblando auto personalizzate per i clienti che hanno bisogno di arrivare dal punto A al punto B senza esplosioni.
2) Ogni auto avrebbe comandi radicalmente differenti: alcune avrebbero uno sterzo, alcune una cloche, alcune una colonna di controllo e una pedaliera such as helicopters, some of the keyboard used to introduce the angle that you intend to change the current direction. In radians. Without a macro to pi.
3) Every choice of construction would defend to the bitter end as the only logical way in which a person even remotely healthy and might want to check a vehicle unless it is abandoned in the next version.
4) Almost no cars have a manual. The buyers would be encouraged to spend time in a separate room of the dealership, where all the other drivers discuss the various features of that model and / or other similar models, hoping to catch a piece of conversation relating to what want to know.
5) In the few cars that they have one, the manual contains information that rarely are used. Rather, it consists of a discussion of 3-4 pages on the properties' chemical layer of anti-rust paint, a detailed explanation on how to loosen the bolts to change a tire, and 10 pages of detailed description of the operation of the locks of the doors, with a quick overview on the theory and history of keys and their carving techniques [for those who think that this is' an exaggeration, I invite you to look at the "documentation" of what is becoming the standard for open source management of data centers, RackTables. And that 'a fantastic application, of course. Ed].
6) Each car would lack the essential characteristics. The designers compensate for the lack in manners that would make proud Dastardly & Muttley. For example, some cars would be unable to turn left, but would be modified with a complicated system of regulation of speed 'and hand brake servo to go into a spin (semi-) controlled, change orientation to the left when necessary.
7) The radio of UbuntuCar you spoil every time you change the oil or gasoline.
8) RHELCar would be open source, but you should pay a fortune to make gasoline or inflate the tires.
9) Many drivers would be very proud to be a free crash-test dummies in FedoraCar and mock the "servants of the multinationals" who pay to enjoy the results of crash tests in RHELCar.
10) After each incident you would never blame a mechanical failure or defects of the car, sorry to be surrounded by designers, engineers and other drivers that you submit to a moral lynching and accuse you of being too stupid to enjoy the privilege to drive a car open source. Instead, you should undergo a cleansing ritual in which he argued that the ideal place to put a land mine and 'in fact just below the throttle, and I apologized for being so' stupid not to understand it first.
11) Richard Stallman in place of Enzo Ferrari. I say no more.
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