1) Give source to users 2) let users mod software 3) any problems, can't blame us, YOU modified it.
yeah, yeah, it's not likely but I just feel really cynical today
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MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?
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SAP DB [sapdb.org] is free, open source and GPL. It also has all the best big-guy features. Not many people seem to know about it - it certainly has small mind-share. But it is the real stuff - miles ahead of MySQL.
But for some reason people ignore it. Is it because it is created by a company and not a group ? Or is it that everybody has already chosen their favorite free DB and won't look at others ?
Not every slashdotter is an unwashed ex uni student Nor am I.
FWIW, I mostly agree with you, but that doesn't mean the gov handled it well. They lie (child overboard) to confuse the issue. They keep refugees for years in lousy conditions, including the fair dinkum ones. They also appear to have committed us to a non-UN sanctioned invasion
And lets not forget the Telstra HDTVs that both John Howard and Richard Alston have for evaluation, funny how things go Telstra's way.
lets face it, they are bunch of self serving drongos whose main skills lie in getting themselves voted into office. But I guess thats not exclusive to Australia.
Our government is way too incompetent to implement any effective forms of censorship. Just look at their recent record on things like refugees, Iraq and the like. They can't even lie very well:)
Interesting, I found a version of this same story somewhere (sorry, didn't bookmark it) which had the expert as a she not a he. Identical apart from that.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, send in the corporate mercanaries and finish
these guys off, they are obviously in pain.
Umm, I don't eat the coffee grounds either.
Caffeine is part of the flavour of coffee, it isn't
coffee without the caffeine.
As I write this, there is an Ad for USB stuff in
the banner ad. Products are:
1) USB Firewire Card
2) USB 2.0 PCI Card
3) USB 2.0 PCMCIA
4) 2 Port USB 2.0 PCMCIA
Only one mentions the actual speed (no. 4 "Ultra Fast High Speed USB 2.0", you guess what that means)
The point is the Hardware Manufacturers/Retail companies are taking advantage of the confusion to
mislead consumers. This is wrong.
Does that mean it crashes on leap years ?
no.
Microsoft to license Unix code
Not the same thing, but it does provide much needed cash to SCO.
CRAP, The stockmarket is a gamble, those betting on SCO think the odds are worth it if they win, and the small loss if they lose can be absorbed.
Is that libel?
Good Question. Anyone got a take on this ?
Wow, he must use an RIAA calculator for his timesheets.
> its dead already.
It's not dead, it's pining for the fjords.
Wizzards - Ralph Bakesomething
1) Give source to users
2) let users mod software
3) any problems, can't blame us, YOU modified it.
yeah, yeah, it's not likely but I just feel really cynical today
But for some reason people ignore it. Is it because it is created by a company and not a group ? Or is it that everybody has already chosen their favorite free DB and won't look at others ?
Sure beats me.
Nor am I.
FWIW, I mostly agree with you, but that doesn't mean the gov handled it well. They lie (child overboard) to confuse the issue. They keep refugees for years in lousy conditions, including the fair dinkum ones. They also appear to have committed us to a non-UN sanctioned invasion
And lets not forget the Telstra HDTVs that both John Howard and Richard Alston have for evaluation, funny how things go Telstra's way.
lets face it, they are bunch of self serving drongos whose main skills lie in getting themselves voted into office. But I guess thats not exclusive to Australia.
Our government is way too incompetent to implement any effective forms of censorship. Just look at their recent record on things like refugees, Iraq and the like. They can't even lie very well :)
> I guess this means another 10 projects on sourceforge, all in planning stage.
3 will have web sites
2 will have mailing list
1 will have a developer
try this link
a land of sweeping laws.
Interesting, I found a version of this same story somewhere (sorry, didn't bookmark it) which had the expert as a she not a he. Identical apart from that.
Can someone get me a copy of the threat letter?
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1054
And in the first movie Petrol was the single largest expense.
Damn, that .NZ is gonna make it hard for Australia to steal this one.
It is the "Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation" that will be first against the wall.
> Sounds like a story about a little dog.
Snowy is the dog. Tintin is da man.
Because people laugh at it.