Slashback: Apache, DRM, Limbo

Slashback tonight has an important correction about the role of the Apache Foundation (none) vis a vis yesterday's ".NET for Apache" post. Also, another view of the recent DRM (stacked) roundtable in Washington, a review of Red Hat's new beta, and more. Anyone who has successfully downloaded the new Mandrake beta want to comment on that?

Those guys did not ride in with us. Sascha Schumann of the Apache Software Foundation wrote to correct the story presented in Monday's post (".Net for Apache"), writing "this is _not_ a joint Apache Software Foundation/Microsoft stunt. It has not been approved or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation, nor does it require any of those acts -- it is a deal between two private companies, Covalent and Microsoft."

Fly on wall video, anyone? kikensei writes: "DSL Reports has a story summarizing last week's DRM round table that was stacked with corporate panel members. You can read it here. It presents a much more apt framework for discussion than the overly sensitive, passive account from Al3x that defined our discussion last week."

Dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo. Earlier this month, we mentioned Red Hat's new beta, called Limbo. wiredog writes "From eWeek, a review of RedHat 8.0 beta. With gcc 3.1,the latest versions of GNOME, Mozilla and OpenOffice, and Apache 2.0"

The force is strong in these metallic boxes. Verizon Guy writes "CNet is reporting that Industrial Light and Magic, the group responsible for rendering the special effects in the Star Wars films, is moving away from their proprietary SGI/IRIX/RISC based systems and is instead moving to Dells running Linux. This will give them 100% performance at 20% of the cost."

Here's a link to our post with the recent Linux Journal article on same; look for more on this soon.

Wear name tags, please. mpawlo writes "Slashdot meetup day is only a week away. Some 4 500 people have already signed up to meet all over the world on Thursday July 25, 2002, 7 pm. We need more fellow Swedes to meet in Stockholm and I guess the same goes for other cities."

Comments

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's right, suck it and like it. OSS will never compare to Microsoft products for 3 reasons:

1. Compatibility. Everyone writes programs for Windows, period. Yeah, sometimes the Mac zealots cry until they get a game or two a year after initial release, but that's the only exception. Remember the Loki debacle? LMFAO! It made Enron look like an honest mistake!

2. Future. Microsoft is here to stay. Even *if* Microsoft somehow dissapeared, their products are still here, and will be for quite some time. If you don't believe me, look at Netware and any company that still runs it (every major banking firm still runs it as well as most companies that have been around before the .bomb craze).

3. Past. Microsoft has been around since the early 80's, and DOS (which is what Windows is based on) has even earlier roots. The source for Windows originated from the early MacOS (80's again), and MacOS has it's roots from the Xerox GUI, which is early 70's. When was Lunix started again? 1995? 1996? 6 fucking years and it has yet to run one single Microsoft app! WTF kind of POSIX complience is that?
I rest my case.

Re:Mandrake Release

[CableModemSniper]

chown and chmod are your friends.