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Why Microsoft is About to Lose: The Slashdot story is called, Why Linux is About to Lose. Journalistic fairness demands that the other side get attention. DCE/RPC.net lists numerous projects that will replace Microsoft: Open Source Win 2000 directory services, an MS-Exchange clone for Unix, an MS SQL clone, a .NET logon service, and others.


Jon, respectfully, it amazes me how much open source people under-communicate.

I took your post above (#2451850) and re-wrote it, using exactly the same information. My version is 100 times stronger. You call your post a tangent. How can what you said be a tangent? It is EXTREMELY relevant. It changes everything.

There are legitimate times to stand on the rooftops and shout. This is one of them, it seems to me.


U.S. government corruption: What should be the Response to Violence?

Why Microsoft is About to Lose: The Slashdot story is called, Why Linux is About to Lose. Journalistic fairness demands that the other side get attention. DCE/RPC.net lists numerous projects that will replace Microsoft: Open Source Win 2000 directory services, an MS-Exchange clone for Unix, an MS SQL clone, a .NET logon service, and others.


Jon, respectfully, it amazes me how much open source people under-communicate.

I took your post above (#2451850) and re-wrote it, using exactly the same information. My version is 100 times stronger. You call your post a tangent. How can what you said be a tangent? It is EXTREMELY relevant. It changes everything.

There are legitimate times to stand on the rooftops and shout. This is one of them, it seems to me.


U.S. government corruption: What should be the Response to Violence?

Why Microsoft is About to Lose: The Slashdot story is called, Why Linux is About to Lose. Journalistic fairness demands that the other side get attention. DCE/RPC.net lists numerous projects that will replace Microsoft: Open Source Win 2000 directory services, an MS-Exchange clone for Unix, an MS SQL clone, a .NET logon service, and others.


Jon, respectfully, it amazes me how much open source people under-communicate.

I took your post above (#2451850) and re-wrote it, using exactly the same information. My version is 100 times stronger. You call your post a tangent. How can what you said be a tangent? It is EXTREMELY relevant. It changes everything.

There are legitimate times to stand on the rooftops and shout. This is one of them, it seems to me.


U.S. government corruption: What should be the Response to Violence?

Why Microsoft is About to Lose: The Slashdot story is called, Why Linux is About to Lose. Journalistic fairness demands that the other side get attention. DCE/RPC.net lists numerous projects that will replace Microsoft: Open Source Win 2000 directory services, an MS-Exchange clone for Unix, an MS SQL clone, a .NET logon service, and others.


Jon, respectfully, it amazes me how much open source people under-communicate.

I took your post above (#2451850) and re-wrote it, using exactly the same information. My version is 100 times stronger. You call your post a tangent. How can what you said be a tangent? It is EXTREMELY relevant. It changes everything.

There are legitimate times to stand on the rooftops and shout. This is one of them, it seems to me.


U.S. government corruption: What should be the Response to Violence?

Why Microsoft is About to Lose: The Slashdot story is called, Why Linux is About to Lose. Journalistic fairness demands that the other side get attention. DCE/RPC.net lists numerous projects that will replace Microsoft: Open Source Win 2000 directory services, an MS-Exchange clone for Unix, an MS SQL clone, a .NET logon service, and others.


Jon, respectfully, it amazes me how much open source people under-communicate.

I took your post above (#2451850) and re-wrote it, using exactly the same information. My version is 100 times stronger. You call your post a tangent. How can what you said be a tangent? It is EXTREMELY relevant. It changes everything.

There are legitimate times to stand on the rooftops and shout. This is one of them, it seems to me.


U.S. government corruption: What should be the Response to Violence?

Thanks, that cheers me up considerably. ;-)

I wish Luke Howard and his band of merry men every success in their Active Directory cloning work, Project XAD. Microsoft is genuinely pushing the state of the art of directory services and management forward (at least relative to the UNIX world, I haven't been much exposed to Novell's stuff), it would just be nice if they had the confidence in their stuff to document their protocols the way that Sun does.

Of course, Sun sells big boxes with electronics stuff in them, and Microsoft doesn't sell anything but bits. (Sooper SECRET bits).

Also, the DCE/RPC information page at that site makes some inaccurate claims about Sun's ONC RPC:

ONC/RPC is limited to using UDP

Not true. Since Day One, it also supported TCP; the Sun TIRPC stuff (done for System V Release 4) also allows it to work on other transports - for example, during at least one Connectathon, testing of NFS and other ONC RPC-based services over OSI transport protocols (I forget whether they did only CLTP or CLTP and COTP) was done, as I remember.

ONC/RPC's security is GSS/API

Not true. ONC RPC does support other authentication flavors, although they're either weak ("none" and "system" authentication), have (I think) been broken (DES authentication) or use Kerberos V4 rather than V5 (Kerberos authentication), so the intent is, as I understand it, to move to GSS/API authentication.