Do you really think it's important to tell the entire slashdot readership that you've assembled a pc from separate components, so you don't have a copy of Windows to return?
Geez, get a life, people. Half the posts for this story basically say just that.
Firstly, every man and his dog can assemble a pc nowadays. It's really not necessary for you to tell everyone. Secondly, the point of the story is about *bundling* - about buying ready made systems from big OEMs, especially laptop, i.e. not stuff you assemble yourself.
I really don't give a rat's arse if you assembled a pc from components... something as difficult to do as building something out of lego.
...though it embodies much of what characterises the enemy.
The enemy is closed software and proprietary protocols.
Even if Microsoft is around 10 years from now it won't matter. We just need to succeed in banishing closed software and proprietary protocols.
Perhaps 10 years from now, Microsoft will be reduced to supporting NT after releasing it as open source software. Perhaps Windows will remain the most popular OS. Perhaps, perhaps not. It doesn't matter what Microsoft does, as long as the important protocols of the industry remain open.
It won't matter to me if the majority of users use NT - what matters to me is individual companies holding the industry to ransom. If NT were made open source (unlikely as it is) and the API made non-proprietary, it wouldn't matter if they retained 90% of the market.
It doesn't really matter if Linux takes over either. It doesn't have to be Linux... it could be a BSD, it could be Hurd, it could be an open source MacOS or an open source BeOS... the important thing is that the dominant OS which sets the pace for the industry remains open so it can be peer reviewed and is not locked by individual companies.
RedHat says it'll take decades for Linux to overtake Windows. I have my suspicions Rob Young said this with his tongue firmly placed in his cheek. Regardless, it is a meaningless statement, because not only is it impossible to predict where the industry will go six months in advance - it is also impossible to predict that Microsoft will remain the champion of closed APIs as it is today.
Get it? Microsoft is not the enemy, though it is currently the champion of closed APIs and proprietary protocols. Conversely, Linux is not the end-all, be-all. The battle between Linux and Windows is a mere side-issue, a shadow of the real battle. The real battle is between open and closed software.
And that battle is almost already won - even if we don't know what will happen with Windows and Linux 10 years from now.
It's ironic that those people that cry foul because Sengan says "personally I don't like weapons" (gosh, is that a crime to say?), complain that these sort of comments are not tech-related.
If you're so concerned about making/. tech-only, why the hell are you spending so much time responding to his comment, posting responses that are not tech-related? You've flooded a CORBA story with irrelevant posts. It makes you all look like a bunch of fscking hypocrites.
Sengan's was a through away comment, like: "I don't like jello, but here is a story about it...". Deal with it, people.
It makes me wonder if most of you have a pro-weapons agenda or something. Well, personally I don't like weapons, just like Sengan. They tend to hurt people. Way to go, Sengan, don't change.
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Do you really think it's important to tell the entire slashdot readership that you've assembled a pc from separate components, so you don't have a copy of Windows to return?
Geez, get a life, people. Half the posts for this story basically say just that.
Firstly, every man and his dog can assemble a pc nowadays. It's really not necessary for you to tell everyone. Secondly, the point of the story is about *bundling* - about buying ready made systems from big OEMs, especially laptop, i.e. not stuff you assemble yourself.
I really don't give a rat's arse if you assembled a pc from components... something as difficult to do as building something out of lego.
One or two posts, fine. But so many?
...though it embodies much of what characterises the enemy.
The enemy is closed software and proprietary protocols.
Even if Microsoft is around 10 years from now it won't matter. We just need to succeed in banishing closed software and proprietary protocols.
Perhaps 10 years from now, Microsoft will be reduced to supporting NT after releasing it as open source software. Perhaps Windows will remain the most popular OS. Perhaps, perhaps not. It doesn't matter what Microsoft does, as long as the important protocols of the industry remain open.
It won't matter to me if the majority of users use NT - what matters to me is individual companies holding the industry to ransom. If NT were made open source (unlikely as it is) and the API made non-proprietary, it wouldn't matter if they retained 90% of the market.
It doesn't really matter if Linux takes over either. It doesn't have to be Linux... it could be a BSD, it could be Hurd, it could be an open source MacOS or an open source BeOS... the important thing is that the dominant OS which sets the pace for the industry remains open so it can be peer reviewed and is not locked by individual companies.
RedHat says it'll take decades for Linux to overtake Windows. I have my suspicions Rob Young said this with his tongue firmly placed in his cheek. Regardless, it is a meaningless statement, because not only is it impossible to predict where the industry will go six months in advance - it is also impossible to predict that Microsoft will remain the champion of closed APIs as it is today.
Get it? Microsoft is not the enemy, though it is currently the champion of closed APIs and proprietary protocols. Conversely, Linux is not the end-all, be-all. The battle between Linux and Windows is a mere side-issue, a shadow of the real battle. The real battle is between open and closed software.
And that battle is almost already won - even if we don't know what will happen with Windows and Linux 10 years from now.
It's ironic that those people that cry foul because Sengan says "personally I don't like weapons" (gosh, is that a crime to say?), complain that these sort of comments are not tech-related.
/. tech-only, why the hell are you spending so much time responding to his comment, posting responses that are not tech-related? You've flooded a CORBA story with irrelevant posts. It makes you all look like a bunch of fscking hypocrites.
If you're so concerned about making
Sengan's was a through away comment, like: "I don't like jello, but here is a story about it...". Deal with it, people.
It makes me wonder if most of you have a pro-weapons agenda or something. Well, personally I don't like weapons, just like Sengan. They tend to hurt people. Way to go, Sengan, don't change.
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We should send all hairdressers, fashion designers, PR people, management consultants, advertising staff, insurance salespeople, art, film and literary critics, the staff at Ziff Davis, a certain company from Redmond, country and western musicians, Celine Dion, the US Republican Party, the UK Tories, the Australian Liberal Party, Deng Xiaoping, Pinochet, Boris Yeltsin, the Spice Girls, the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads, neo-Nazis, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Oliver North, Jerry Fallwell, fundamentalists, the NSA, the CIA, Saddam Hussein, Jacques Chirac, Leonardo di Caprio...
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