IEEE Spectrum Open Source issue

David McWha writes "The cover story of the May issue of IEEE Spectrum is on open source systems, and gives a good balanced view of the competition between Windows NT and various Unices (including Linux). There is a nice unbiased review of the pros and cons of each. The whole story from the history through to the commercial model of open source is there. The article is available online, but you have to be an IEEE member to get in, so join! "

Comments

Sheesh, haven't you people ever heard of a library

[xyzzy]

Or a (well stocked) news stand? Or maybe a friend who is a member?

IEEE is a non-profit professional organization. The costs they charge just cover the services they give.

Ironic (and moronic also)

[RangerElf]

An article about Open Source software and the article itself isn't viewable except by members.

I was once a member of IEEE, the organization itself sucks like hell, at least here in Mexico. I really regretted shelling out the money to subscribe, specially being a hungry student at the time (and their "computer" mag was always late on everything, playing catch-up to byte, etc).

I coincide, /. shouldn't display pay-subscription-site news. Like the guy said, 99.9999% of us won't subscribe just to read the thing.

-elf

"Protected" Content and Pirating

[Weezul]

Perhaps we should have a policy of making ``more desciptive posts'' when we make links to member only sites, i.e. ask for a summery with any link to a members only site. This seems like a good policy since it allows potentially valuble content to be posted and those of us who don't want to join can still get the message.

In this case it would have been worth providing a basic list of what they liked and didn't like about the various OSes. This could probable have been done in one paragraph without even a hint of copyright enfriengment.