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Google Gives Reason Why it is Built on Linux
Rob writes "A common reason why more governments and enterprises around the world are moving to
open source software is unhappiness, it was revealed during a panel discussion at the
LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco yesterday. Google Inc open source programs
manager Chris DiBona said the search giant has stuck with Linux throughout the company's
life, in part, because it
was unhappy with the terms of another software company. Which borgware company is he referring to?"
He was refering to Microsoft!
Which borgware company is he referring to?
It's Apple.
Surprise.
SCO OpenServer!
Viva La Penguinista!!!!!!
Fear is the enemy; the one true enemy. {Sun Tzu-The Art of War}
Amiga?
No, no wait... DEC. Yeah! Google is so fast because it does NOT run on a PDP-10.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
In my 50-node-and-smaller networks, it's just so much nicer to be able to install the OS on the machines and not have to mess with licensing. I think that goodness would be that much sweeter on a 500-node network.
:-).
They could have used *BSD, but that would have been like Harvard boys using Yale locks. A bunch of Stanford grads use Berkeley-derived stuff? Get real
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
The past is receding on me, too, it would seem. I meant 512KB, not 512MB. And it would take 64 DRAM chips!
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
This was at the bottom of the article when I read it:
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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e31'
Timeout expired
But! You would have the comfort of knowing that you are running a Certified Microsoft(R) Product!
Free software is a plot between godless communists and moozlim ayrab terrists who don't pray to jesus like we do here in 'marika to destroy capitalism and the entire western economy, 'specially 'marika's. That gul durn googley is in on it, so I uses Yahoo. Puh-raise Bill Gates! Puh-raise microsoft! /troll
How ya like dat?
Yes, I know that some companies do, but some do not.
Look Bub, you don't know that at all. . .
The sun hasn't gone cold yet.
KFG
I agree... 100% Google has a huge database of user info.
:)
The thing is, this is one time were I AGREE to it. Their services are good, and make me lower my walls a bit. I am generally very anal about companies collecting information, but this is one time were I am a hypocrite.
Google is just another company to me and their "Do no evil" policy is meaningless (I mean do other companies actually sit around in high backed chairs and think of how to "do evil"?) Unfortunately the provide great services, and their "spying" has little impact on me... so if they need to do it to survive and provide good things, then they can have it.
This once... period... you other fuckers be warned
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
Perhaps the whole reason Google was created in the first place was someone sick of trying to find how to change resolutions in X-Windows for Linux using only AltaVista wanted a batter way.
I could see that being possible...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The guys at Google did stuff differently from the way you'd have done it if you had been in charge.
The only thing I take from that is, they were monumentally successful, and you're talking down to them about "putting food on the table."
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
First, do you have some magic method you want to share for automatically logging into, and staying logged onto, an account-based service w/o cookies?
Wow! The 1K max size cookie on my computer stores the IP and info of every single search that is done on google?
Forget search revenues, they need to patent and sell that compression algorithm!
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
People *think* that when you type in a search and the previous search history comes up is a cookie. We know better of course :)
I had a mate who I convinced to use firefox and he complained that these "cookies" were staying there even when he told FF to remove them! Heh, the public have no idea sometimes :)
Can your karma go above being Excellent?
I almost got my ass kicked for using the word "borgware" today.
For bringing more people to Linux, I saw Hooray for unhappiness. here's how I think the whole process works:
Step 1 - Cluelessness - Buy Windows 95
Step 2 - Anger - Buy Windows NT
Step 3- Unhappiness - move to Linux
Step 4 - Confusion - move to Macintosh
Step 5 - Bankruptcy - move to Tibet and become a Buddhist monk.
You heard it hear first, folks. move to Tibet now before the rush comes in!
C'Mon Garth
:-)
We are not worthy, we are not worthy!
What is this gmail system? You mean you don't have your own email system on your own website? What, has Slashdot been taken over by a herd of little old ladies in flower hats?
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
Are you telling me that a webserver actually logs a requesting IP address? Does this apply to all websites?
Man, I'm trading in my computer for an abacus.
BTW, what does a webserver logging IP addresses have to do with the CEO's personal information?
"Teleporting Rodents with D-Cell Battery Displacement" theory -- IgnoramusMaximus (692000)
Simply store the one TRUE cookie in the login context and use that cookie to 'bind' them all or to replace as necessary.
One Cookie to Rule Them All
One Cookie to find them
One Cookie to bring them all
and in the OS bind them.
"I drank what?" - Socrates
Please don't allow your inconvenient alleged "facts" and "first-hand knowledge" and the fact that the story is about "you" get in the way of a good old-fashioned slashdot Microsoft bash.
erroneous: look me up in a dictionary
We have found that regular chairs work fine for this.
WWJD for a Klondike Bar?