Yes. In other words, their remit is to serve the public (and in case you didn't know, BBC content within Britain is not funded by commercials but by a fee that's compulsory IF you own a tv). The only remit any of the other broadcasters have in Britain is (a) to make money; (b) to not breach any of the "lesser" regulations (such as no blood and guts when children's tv is broadcast).
I can't wait to read all sorts of interesting theories on how this will really work from people who have never been inside Microsoft, yet feel the need to 'enlighten' us with their ignorance.
We're not ignorant. We know how "interoperability" deals with Microsoft have gone down in the past - and that's it exactly: down. Someone commenting on this article said "Where has the 'interoperability' deal with Microsoft gone?" Well, where?
In order to help us positively identify people most participating in groupthink, ...start with the people ignorant/naive/stupid enough to think that THIS time, Microsoft won't be stealing your baby's lollipop whilst it kisses it.
Parroting internet jokes I wasn't parroting, and I wasn't joking. The point is that just because someone is elected doesn't mean he couldn't possibly be the biggest scumbag to ever have walked the Earth.
Royal is rich, white and Christian. Those adjectives doesn't have anything to do with Sarkozy's policies. Oh, really? So you think most Muslims would support being randomly raided, as he ordered when he was Prime Minister, do you? I'm aware that Royal is not Muslim or North African, either. What I am saying is the people who form Sarkozy's core supporters wouldn't vote for him if he were. I wasn't referring in any way to Royal.
Seriously, though, if I'm going to move to France I'm at least going to try and learn French. And I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that if you want to come and work in America, you might pick up a little English first. I suspect many of the people who came to America didn't have time to brush up on a Teach Yourself American English course before fleeing their native country. Or the money to buy one in an airport lounge.
As an Asian, I'm absolutely glad that Sarkozy won. May I point out that he himself is a son of immigrants, and not the anti-immigrant caricature that the story blurb would have us believe. I'm surprised that being an Asian hasn't been a barrier to you being that naive. Sarkozy is rich, white, and Christian. It's not like those Frenchmen (and women) who voted for him because he was rightwing would have voted for him if he'd been a second-generation North African Muslim with a foreign accent.
Perhaps you meant to say "we wouldn't be this large had Napolean not stolen Louisiana from the Spanish and sold it to us to pay for his war with the Allies."? Perhaps you meant to say "we wouldn't be this large had Napoleon not stolen Louisiana from the Spanish, who stole it from the Native Americans, and sold it to us to pay for his war with the Allies"?
But at the same time realize they will have to take a back seat while there are active special intrest groups that believe the end (one world Muslim, or one world Communism) justifies the means (violence). The problem with people like Sarkozy, and Bush, and Musharraf, is that they also believe that the end justifies the means. It's just that the end they choose is "security", which often means ditching the kind of freedom they espouse in economics when it comes to things like, oh, I dunno, living in France and not speaking French.
Just because the person you disagree with wins doesn't mean that the system is broken. Tell that to 6 million Jews who died because "the person who won" was Hitler.
No, I'm not comparing Sarkozy with Hitler. But even if he's not that bad, he's bad enough.
And don't think for a minute that it won't be easy to find developers. When everyone is claiming all the jobs are going over seas, I seriously doubt that some starving outsourced programmer is going to get all ethical and pass up a full time job. Maybe, but I wasn't really referring to ethics. I was referring to the fact that all these resignations make Novell look like a bum deal.
This reminds me of the HP/Compaq merger: At first HP said they would integrate the superior technologies from Compaq/DEC's Tru64 Unix into HP-UX; two years later (or less) most of the Tru64 workforce was gone and the "superior technologies" were jettisoned. And where is HP/UX now?
Similarly, if all the Linux hackers leave Novell/SUSE, who exactly are Novell going to employ to develop the distribution? Not many people looking to make a good career move are going to man a ship whose crew says she's sinking.
Linux is files. The entire OS is based on files. Things to run on startup? Files. Opening hard drives? Files. Drivers? Files. (kernel mods) Not quite true, of course. Networking breaks the "everything is a file model". Arguably, device drivers do too (witness the hundred and one interfaces to control different devices).
I hate to drag religion into this relevant discussion of Mark Shuttleworth, Richard Stallman and famous Communists and Marxists......but there never was an Apostle named Michael. Fair enough, but in my defence that's just the kind of factual error SCO would make!
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So, with this correction, perhaps the original poster wanted to depict Stallman as some kind of warrior angel who would come down from on High to smite those who would force proprietary and closed-source software on the people of this world. No, it was just an (admittedly cheap) shot at SCO. As such, if anything it depicts Stallman as a communist Satan, Antichrist or Judas Iscariot, in a mock-SCO stylee.
I'm sorry, but trying to picture Stallman equipped with great wings, wearing flowing robes and brandishing a might sword just made Diet Coke come out my nose. Heh.
so that Microsoft can provide support only for "friendly" operating systems.
Oh please... then why is Mac included? Because with only one manufacturer behind it, and being a proprietary platform, the Mac doesn't compete on Microsoft's home turf? Especially now that with the ability to run Windows XP native or virtualized, Windows does compete on the Mac's home turf.
My take is, if Linux wasn't fragmented into dozens of viable distributions MS would have supported Linux as well. My take is, if Linux weren't fragmented into dozens of viable distributions it would never have gained the worldwide community necessary to make it the success it is. Microsoft has seen off all other corporate comers, why should OneAndOnlyLinux Inc. be any different?
It smacks of desperation that Microsoft tries so hard to exclude Linux from any software they release. If they don't loosen up that strangle-hold, their company is going to choke to death.
+5 Insightful. (I have no mod points to give you, sorry). This seems to be the way most tech companies do business. It kills them in the end (Commodore, Atari), except the lucky ones, which either get too big (MS, Sony), or get bought out (DEC). The oddest thing is they never, ever learn: MS has lived through the heydays of Commodore's, Atari's, and DEC's proprietary technology and seen them all fail (not to mention UNIX, or Sony's BetaMAX and MiniDisc), and even built a business out of selling to IBM PC clone makers - and yet, in the face of Linux, it continues to believe both that it has a God-given right to proprietary technology and that the former is a good idea.
Imagine if we all had to pay Byblos, Inc. for the right to use paper. Geez.
It almost makes you want to quote a line from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (guess which one). Maybe the name was given to the wrong OS project.
Let's see, Stallman and Stalin - note the resemblance in the names. Stalin hated the Jews, and Stallman IS a Jew, therefore he's trying to use his Yiddishkeit to hide his communism. Also, the M in RMS stands for Michael, who was an apostle of Jesus. Judas was also an apostle of Jesus, but also a traitor, and therefore OBVIOUSLY a communist, so Stallman has obviously chosen the name "Michael" to throw us off the scent again. Given the prohibition against shaving in the Bible, Judas presumably had a beard, and RMS and Stallman are just as hirsute, though RMS hides his Stalin-type moustache in a cunningly-designed camouflage beard. And as to the "in" in "Stalin", Stallman, the new Stalin, is IN America trying to turn us all communist.
You'd think being johnny-come-lately that they'd, you know, copy the good features of the other big 2 and support things like being able to upload entire campaigns for large #'s of keywords and ads. Nope, the best they can do is single ad groups, one at a time, in two sheets, one for words and one for ads, which isn't really faster than cutting and pasting them into a web form. There's a saying in the computer business - those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, badly. MS has always been good at marketing, but bad at technology, so I think they are an example of those who do not understand technology being condemned to reinvent it, badly.
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Yes. In other words, their remit is to serve the public (and in case you didn't know, BBC content within Britain is not funded by commercials but by a fee that's compulsory IF you own a tv). The only remit any of the other broadcasters have in Britain is (a) to make money; (b) to not breach any of the "lesser" regulations (such as no blood and guts when children's tv is broadcast).
Er, sorry. "with Microsoft" = "between Sun and Microsoft".
I can't wait to read all sorts of interesting theories on how this will really work from people who have never been inside Microsoft, yet feel the need to 'enlighten' us with their ignorance.
...start with the people ignorant/naive/stupid enough to think that THIS time, Microsoft won't be stealing your baby's lollipop whilst it kisses it.
We're not ignorant. We know how "interoperability" deals with Microsoft have gone down in the past - and that's it exactly: down. Someone commenting on this article said "Where has the 'interoperability' deal with Microsoft gone?" Well, where?
In order to help us positively identify people most participating in groupthink,
Which is exactly why I choose to fight what you call "small fascism" as well as "big fascism".
FYI, I stopped at the "liberal tendencies of some Europeans" crap. Choosing between liberalism and fascism is not a hard choice - for some.
No, I'm not comparing Sarkozy with Hitler. But even if he's not that bad, he's bad enough.
Similarly, if all the Linux hackers leave Novell/SUSE, who exactly are Novell going to employ to develop the distribution? Not many people looking to make a good career move are going to man a ship whose crew says she's sinking.
...So, with this correction, perhaps the original poster wanted to depict Stallman as some kind of warrior angel who would come down from on High to smite those who would force proprietary and closed-source software on the people of this world. No, it was just an (admittedly cheap) shot at SCO. As such, if anything it depicts Stallman as a communist Satan, Antichrist or Judas Iscariot, in a mock-SCO stylee. I'm sorry, but trying to picture Stallman equipped with great wings, wearing flowing robes and brandishing a might sword just made Diet Coke come out my nose. Heh.
Heh. Maybe SCO are fans of Monty Python.
Remove the chairs from the building!
It smacks of desperation that Microsoft tries so hard to exclude Linux from any software they release. If they don't loosen up that strangle-hold, their company is going to choke to death.
+5 Insightful. (I have no mod points to give you, sorry). This seems to be the way most tech companies do business. It kills them in the end (Commodore, Atari), except the lucky ones, which either get too big (MS, Sony), or get bought out (DEC). The oddest thing is they never, ever learn: MS has lived through the heydays of Commodore's, Atari's, and DEC's proprietary technology and seen them all fail (not to mention UNIX, or Sony's BetaMAX and MiniDisc), and even built a business out of selling to IBM PC clone makers - and yet, in the face of Linux, it continues to believe both that it has a God-given right to proprietary technology and that the former is a good idea.Imagine if we all had to pay Byblos, Inc. for the right to use paper. Geez.
It almost makes you want to quote a line from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (guess which one). Maybe the name was given to the wrong OS project.
Now I'm intrigued as to why you would think that.
Let's see, Stallman and Stalin - note the resemblance in the names. Stalin hated the Jews, and Stallman IS a Jew, therefore he's trying to use his Yiddishkeit to hide his communism. Also, the M in RMS stands for Michael, who was an apostle of Jesus. Judas was also an apostle of Jesus, but also a traitor, and therefore OBVIOUSLY a communist, so Stallman has obviously chosen the name "Michael" to throw us off the scent again. Given the prohibition against shaving in the Bible, Judas presumably had a beard, and RMS and Stallman are just as hirsute, though RMS hides his Stalin-type moustache in a cunningly-designed camouflage beard. And as to the "in" in "Stalin", Stallman, the new Stalin, is IN America trying to turn us all communist.