Again, this is no surprise. You misunderstood my post.
Less insulting than "bitter and impatient" and redirected but still insulting.
this is politics, not Matrix. Quinn's getting the boot isn't some mighty act of evil genius, but rather piling BS that is going on in Boston's Politics as Usual.
More of the same, "Say it ain't so," and it's no harder to understand than it is likely. The CTO is not a political position. File formats are not the kinds of things politicians battle over because no one cares but a few M$ fanboys and people who understand software freedom. Show me a record of Boston Globe front page articles about file formats or CTOs and I'll give you a virtual nickel.
Microsoft will do whatever it needs to do to give themselves advantage by establishing strong foothold on standard
Are you going to admit M$ pulled a smear job that ended Quinn's career? Would you say that's right?
Mr. Bruce Perens, to me, sounds bitter and impatient how ODF and Open Source is being adapted around the country, and the world.
Who says that rate is slow? ODF is less than a year old. Yet, two state governments have moved adopt it. Can you name any other technology state governments have adopted so quickly?
Let's look at what Peren is angry about again:
[Character Assasination via Boston Globe]... Microsoft succeeded in lobbying both Republicans and Democrats to oppose ODF.... There's a chilling effect that stems from the harassment of Quinn: other government CIOs are being scared away from the Open Format issue because now they know that Microsoft will do its best to end their careers if they even try.
That's hardly what you have charged.
I'd like to see you address any of that with more than insults and "say it aint so." The short of it is that M$ used it's money and influence to bamboozle decision makers, the public and other CTO's. The CTO's, who are more difficult to fool than the others, are being threatened. The facts of the case seem to support Perens on all of the above.
If you are not angry about the end of Quinn's career over file formats, you have not thought enough about it.
I don't want to go to jail for watching a DVD on Linux. Bad laws can and do make normal and harmless activity very difficult. Honest people should be able to do honest things in the open.
device driver management. My experience with OSX drivers is that Apple barely gets enough support from device manufacturers (DMs) to stay above water.
Ugh. How can you equate the past problems of supporting both M$ x86 and special powerPC for MacOS to the current one of OSX, essentially BSD, on x86 as well as M$ on x86? The fact that anyone bothered with much larger old problems means that there will be more to tackle the much easier problem.
Apple has nothing to lose. They can come out with a hardware certification program, like M$'s, which is a cash source not a sink. They don't have to make promisses about OS performance outside of their own line of computers or offer support any more than M$ does. The Apple experience comes from having Apple hardware and they can sell the software part of that experience without changing their core business model. They have nothing to gain but sales and converts.
They should be totally banned in situations like meetings, or at a grocery.
You are kidding me, right? You don't want me to call my wife while I'm grocery shopping. This is different from me chatting with her in the grocery store? Perhaps you think talking in public is rude and that we should all silently keep to ourselves, heads down, like convicts.
"For those thinking their "pet" computer is invulnerable to the virus threat -- it's not," SANS said.
Nooooo! not my AIBO. I knew I should have left off that email and news fetch hack.
What a bunch of BS. How exactly are they supposed to get this assembly code kludge to my machine? Are they going to try to barf zlib? As the article also pointed out, these things have been around since year 2000. In those six years there has been a big fat nothing done with them.
No, don't give me that "popularity" bullshit either. Linux runs most of the web and provides some of the most lucrative targets to Al Queda and other criminals. On the other end, free software run computers will always be more up to date and easier to recover. A Linux user with a misbehaving computer can fix point and click style in 20 minutes with a fairly knew distro or get the absolute latest and greatest with a net install of Debian. Computer stores can give users the distribution of their choice. Compare that to the non free world, where the user has to bring their "original" Windoze 98 or five year old XP CD into the store or pay $100 for software that might not even run on their old computer. The store then has to go through the mostly useless process of "patching" said ancient junk and the user gets burnt again soon after. The free software world, even a competitive non free world, will never be as bad as M$ is.
"the poor teachers copied a text editor and they got sued by the evil BSA" hardly helps your cause.
You are entitled to your belief, but most people would dissagree.
This is the heart and soul of how non free software is evil and how out of whack "IP" laws are. Most people think of schools as worthy of public support and money. The BSA thinks of them as a source of money and thinks that money is more important than the school's mission. These suits were carried out in the most disruptive way possible. People understand that's wrong. They should also know the intimidation effect of those suits and the massive amounts of public money wasted keeping track of licenses and all that, to avoid more of the same. The case also nicely illustrates why it's wrong to use a non free file format as a communications standard, which is something the public also understands very well now.
If the BSA wanted to look good, they would leave schools of all types alone. Unlike "piracy", this would not have cost them a thing but a few lost sales. I'm glad they were so stupid because it shows them for what they are and encourages the use of free software. No one likes being threatened. Threatening public education is about the dumbest thing a private company can do.
A key role of Free and Open Source Software is to maintain a parallel world where we don't have to be the captive audience of greedy and inefficient industrialists.
The goal of free software is global liberation. The point of free software is to give the user control of their hardware. They must own their software to have that. The list of people who would strip that control includes government as well as private agencies. Everyone should understand exactly what they are giving up when they push the "I agree" button and everyone should know that free alternatives exist. If they don't, your and my options can vanish as bad laws make it impossible for people to share information required to make hardware work. You should not take encroachment lying down. The BSA is morally wrong and should not be allowed to influence the law.
You can't force people to be free but can spread the word and you don't have to help enslave others. You can avoid the use of non free programs and formats. You can tell people why those things are wrong. You can also complain when forced by others to make a choice between your software freedom and co-operating with them. Yes, you can do all of the above without looking of feeling like an ass. When it's your government that does the forcing, as FEMA did in the wake of Katrina and Rita, they are doing it with your money and this is much worse.
You can't get around the government. A store that does not support my free browser won't get my money, someone else will. My wife will write them a letter telling them how she would like to give them her money, but can't. They do listen and respond. If your government decides to make a non free program their "standard" for doing business, you are stuck. That kind of lock in is the last hope for non free software makers. Everyone else, including state governments, are turning away.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Technical Information Service and the Office of Technology Policy all fall under the oversight of the Technology Administration
So there's one big no vote on making any free file formats or programs standard issue for government offices. That's a big deal.
Then and Now. Still not much paper, real tasks to do or any connection with the reality of daily work. It's amazing anyone would take this man's advice about doing anything but bossing people around. Forbes, once again, lives up to it's reputation of business school porn. You might as well read a playboy centerfold's essays.
Maybe Gates is more down to earth than we'd thought?
That's the receptionist's desk. His gold plated, diamond studded, virgin Brazilian hardwood desk with human skull feet and bone handles is in his office. It only has one monitor on it's running enlightenment because he got tired of mousing over three desktops and the HVAC hurricane it took to cool it all off.
Some things never change. There's not much paper on this desk either, though he did use a mac. To do lists are for people who have real tasks. One day, if he ever has something to really do and a calendar program with better todo list integration than Outlook, he'll understand how silly his "folder" organization is.
No one should take this man as a model of how to get things done, but they do. All the tasks that you and I have to do, he simply tells someone else to do. Email is everything to him. The level of control this man personally exercises over the work habits of people in big dumb companies is astounding. He's completely out of touch with real world activities, yet he exercises crazy micro control of Microsoft and Windows development. Perhaps this is one of the more important reasons M$ has yet to ship Vista. Down to Earth? Sure, if you consider your head shoved up your ass a down poisition.
just put FreeDOS on every machine. Everybody wins!
Mepis would be easier and more profitable. Put a few of those machines on display and Windoze piracy would drop to zero. It's too much trouble and you lose way too much by doing it.
All this inheritance stuff keeps reminding me of people's greed.... Digital inheritance will start a whole new fight over the IP of the deceased.
What greed? If you have lived free, everyone will have what's worth having already. Digital records allow sharing that physical objects never enjoyed.
I don't have any non free software or other silly junk written in dissapearing ink. I used MSDos, Windoze 3.1, 95 and 98 before I learned my lesson. They sit in a closet, to be looked on in 50 years as curiosities. I doubt anything will run them and free software works better than newer of the same. My wife and 4 year old girl use that better software.
Because of that they can help me build the digital record we can all look back on and share. I've got about 20 GB of pictures in a simple digital photo album. Some of those pictures are scans of parent and grandparent photo albums. Anyone in my family can have it now, so digitization has increased the worth of the collection for everyone. These albums and the stories they told me are worth much more than the physical things they left, which will rot away. I imagine my email will be more interesting that reams of old letters, because email is easier to store and search through.
It's inconceivable that that kind of information would be hoarded but people have strange ideas.
Microsoft said the exact same thing about business interest in Linux. In that case, however, almost a third of respondents were already running Linux and more than half were planning to evaluate it. A year later, the numbers were largely unchanged, and they made it a part of their "Get the Facts" FUD. They can, and will, say this about any competing software that does not have a majority market share. They can also say it, even if they don't have a majority share themselves. They've said it so much, many people have uncritically accepted the whole pack of lies that goes with it.
The lie evaporates when you invert the numbers and statements as you did. It's a tremendous success that more than half of SMB are interested in Linux. Compare Microsoft's huge marketing budget to that of all the free software advertising combined. It's like comparing your house to Texas. In this case, the sample was skewed too:
the survey, conducted through email solicitation from subscribers to EE Times, Embedded Systems Design and Embedded Systems Design Europe, as well as registrants for the Embedded Systems Conference, are based on 1,217 respondents
Those running Linux probably filtered the "solicitation" out as spam. Those attending the conference may not be the best cross section of the industry.
The "no interest" lie not working and it backfires. People don't trust Microsoft, especially those who know better and are in a position to make decisions. Embedded developers are in that group. Many might not have time to play around with something new, but they have indeed heard about and are very interested in a high quality, zero cost operating system. In the end, the lies just taints the liar.
You expect it to work as well or better than your Play Station. If it came from Microsoft, you probably would not expect the same. There are levels of hell in the non free world.
That's because he does not sell them. If it makes you feel better, make a donation or join the FSF.
Can i violate GPL and he'd be happy?
No.
The point of said, "violations," is to help your neighbor. Your obligations to people around you should always outweigh your obligation to Bill Gates and other greed heads. Public libraries are founded on this principle. Sharing and co-operation are good for everyone. Information, unlike all physical goods, has always been free to share. It is only recently that the US has made sharing information a crime. The laws do this are simply wrong.
Some people, who can't seem to finish their own OS after five years, would love to do what you suggest, so they can better screw their users. The laws they made, which keep them in business, prevent it. Microsoft is going to have to code or legislate themselves out of their GPL troubles. Their coding efforts appear to have failed.
OpenBSD: "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!"
Companies like Sony pushing rootkits onto unsuspecting customers is part of the trend toward stealth and aggressive rooting of machines.
According to XBill, Windows itself is actually a virus cleverly disguised as an OS. If you read the EULA, you discover it's also a rootkit. The software's owner, with your click through permission, has helped themselves to the right to inspect and delete any file on your system.
When a *nix box gets rooted, generally standard practice says that you rebuild the box. I'm unsure if this is the case with Windows rootings.
I've never seen malware removal really work. In sane places, it's mostly a tool to show the user that their computer really is rooted and SOP has always been wipe and reload.
The big difference between *nix and Windoze is the difficulty of the wipe and reload. The easiest case is free software in a standard configuration. You just copy the binary out and leave the home partition alone and the system is fixed. Non free software brings levels of difficulty due to copy protection and other licensing issues. Windoze is the worst in that regard because the registry has no standards to it and each little program puts it's licensing stuff there and elsewhere. Each workstation requires individual attention unless you severely limit the user's choice of software.
Microsoft's admission of these problems is amazing.
At a large come huge company I used to work for, every Friday night all of the workstations enterprise-wide were reimaged whether they needed it or not.... Once you get people on standardized desktops and saving only to network drives, this ceases to much of an issue.
This is an admission of failure on Microsoft's part. The complexity and inflexibility of such a system is unacceptable and the efficacy is questionable. What's keeping the bad guys off your image server? If they root that, they have every machine in your organization. The same kind of thing can be said of local image copies, you are moving the target not fixing the root problem which is an unacceptably poor security model. The cost of all of this is a complete loss of user freedom within the organization. If your users can't chose the tools they need, they can't do the work that makes the company run. "Standardized desktop" a euphemism for vendor lock in.
kill 10's of thousands of people and wash thier hands of it
You don't think software they provide to help China find dissidents won't lead to thousands of political murders? We're talking about a country that harvests organs from political prisoners, on demand and brag about it. (short version).
You might be able to rationalize that by all the cool things you can buy for cheap down at the Walmart, but that's what working with a Communist country supports.
If that's not special enough or bad enough for you, why not look at the very negative influence his greed worldview supports. Massive propaganda in support of the DMCA and other abominations of law. The BSA and lawsuits against US public school systems for copying a text editor. How about their current stupid fight against the best the internet has to offer, Google and Wikipedia, because free information does not fit into their greedy world view? How about fighting the internet itself and pressuring ISPs to reduce their services based on their own crappy software? Microsoft has retarded US computer technology by a decade and ultimately are enemies of knowledge. That's evil.
Dateline RedmondBill Gates, tired of people who just don't perform, just found your new boss. The details were divulged in an exclusive interview granted to Baitline International at the Gates Compound.
"ProClarity's business intelligence is going to be made into a full service package," he said, "and as my former associate Steve Ballmer said, we always eat our own dogfood."
"The inspiration hit me as I was working late one night with the people in our secret Linux Counter Operations Center. Part of my current FUD is that the upfront costs of softare are trivial next compared to your salary. -strike Hee, hee, I love that one because it makes people think you should pay Microsoft as much for your employees tools as you pay your employees just so they can text edit. Strike that, or I'll feed you to my goldfish. Where was I? Oh yes, end strike- I kept hearing all the same stupid ideas and realized that a piece of software could be much smarter. It was geunius [air quote sic]. By firing my own middle management, I'd reduce Windows TOC to be on a par with Linux while increasing pricing and revenue. More importantly, I could have more middle management for Microsoft for less money and none of them would ever talk back or try to steal my stock again."
"I plan to have it manage it's own development and to roll it out as a free part of Server 2010. Our fourtune 100 and government partners have been looking for a way to save money and I'm going to sell them on this. If it works for the world's biggest and bestests ever software company in the whole universe, it will work for them. Those who resist will be labled terrorists in half a dozen government databases managed by my software."
It actually looks like a nice player, see for yourself at the TrekStor site. Plays mp3 and ogg. If only it works by normal USB, firewire or MMC, it's awesome. The gold plate for the wealthy customer is not a bad marketing ploy. It sure drew attention here. For the rest of us, there's the normal player, which you can have gold plated on your own at a local jeweler if you must.
iRivers players look just like external drives and don't require propietary interfaces to get files off and on them.
For older models, that's true. I have a H320 and like it.
What newer models is it true for? I know that it's not true for every model available at Best Buy. All of them use, mtp, a crapy M$ transfer protocol. I tried the small portable players and the nifty looking movie player and another one in between. I'd love to see a link to a model without this problem.
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Less insulting than "bitter and impatient" and redirected but still insulting.
this is politics, not Matrix. Quinn's getting the boot isn't some mighty act of evil genius, but rather piling BS that is going on in Boston's Politics as Usual.
More of the same, "Say it ain't so," and it's no harder to understand than it is likely. The CTO is not a political position. File formats are not the kinds of things politicians battle over because no one cares but a few M$ fanboys and people who understand software freedom. Show me a record of Boston Globe front page articles about file formats or CTOs and I'll give you a virtual nickel.
Microsoft will do whatever it needs to do to give themselves advantage by establishing strong foothold on standard
Are you going to admit M$ pulled a smear job that ended Quinn's career? Would you say that's right?
Who says that rate is slow? ODF is less than a year old. Yet, two state governments have moved adopt it. Can you name any other technology state governments have adopted so quickly?
Let's look at what Peren is angry about again:
[Character Assasination via Boston Globe] ... Microsoft succeeded in lobbying both Republicans and Democrats to oppose ODF. ... There's a chilling effect that stems from the harassment of Quinn: other government CIOs are being scared away from the Open Format issue because now they know that Microsoft will do its best to end their careers if they even try.
That's hardly what you have charged.
I'd like to see you address any of that with more than insults and "say it aint so." The short of it is that M$ used it's money and influence to bamboozle decision makers, the public and other CTO's. The CTO's, who are more difficult to fool than the others, are being threatened. The facts of the case seem to support Perens on all of the above.
If you are not angry about the end of Quinn's career over file formats, you have not thought enough about it.
Ugh. How can you equate the past problems of supporting both M$ x86 and special powerPC for MacOS to the current one of OSX, essentially BSD, on x86 as well as M$ on x86? The fact that anyone bothered with much larger old problems means that there will be more to tackle the much easier problem.
Apple has nothing to lose. They can come out with a hardware certification program, like M$'s, which is a cash source not a sink. They don't have to make promisses about OS performance outside of their own line of computers or offer support any more than M$ does. The Apple experience comes from having Apple hardware and they can sell the software part of that experience without changing their core business model. They have nothing to gain but sales and converts.
You are kidding me, right? You don't want me to call my wife while I'm grocery shopping. This is different from me chatting with her in the grocery store? Perhaps you think talking in public is rude and that we should all silently keep to ourselves, heads down, like convicts.
You mean like taking a $4 billion dollar loss in the console market to wreck their competitors? No, nothing anti-competitive there.
Nooooo! not my AIBO. I knew I should have left off that email and news fetch hack.
What a bunch of BS. How exactly are they supposed to get this assembly code kludge to my machine? Are they going to try to barf zlib? As the article also pointed out, these things have been around since year 2000. In those six years there has been a big fat nothing done with them.
No, don't give me that "popularity" bullshit either. Linux runs most of the web and provides some of the most lucrative targets to Al Queda and other criminals. On the other end, free software run computers will always be more up to date and easier to recover. A Linux user with a misbehaving computer can fix point and click style in 20 minutes with a fairly knew distro or get the absolute latest and greatest with a net install of Debian. Computer stores can give users the distribution of their choice. Compare that to the non free world, where the user has to bring their "original" Windoze 98 or five year old XP CD into the store or pay $100 for software that might not even run on their old computer. The store then has to go through the mostly useless process of "patching" said ancient junk and the user gets burnt again soon after. The free software world, even a competitive non free world, will never be as bad as M$ is.
"the poor teachers copied a text editor and they got sued by the evil BSA" hardly helps your cause.
You are entitled to your belief, but most people would dissagree.
This is the heart and soul of how non free software is evil and how out of whack "IP" laws are. Most people think of schools as worthy of public support and money. The BSA thinks of them as a source of money and thinks that money is more important than the school's mission. These suits were carried out in the most disruptive way possible. People understand that's wrong. They should also know the intimidation effect of those suits and the massive amounts of public money wasted keeping track of licenses and all that, to avoid more of the same. The case also nicely illustrates why it's wrong to use a non free file format as a communications standard, which is something the public also understands very well now.
If the BSA wanted to look good, they would leave schools of all types alone. Unlike "piracy", this would not have cost them a thing but a few lost sales. I'm glad they were so stupid because it shows them for what they are and encourages the use of free software. No one likes being threatened. Threatening public education is about the dumbest thing a private company can do.
The goal of free software is global liberation. The point of free software is to give the user control of their hardware. They must own their software to have that. The list of people who would strip that control includes government as well as private agencies. Everyone should understand exactly what they are giving up when they push the "I agree" button and everyone should know that free alternatives exist. If they don't, your and my options can vanish as bad laws make it impossible for people to share information required to make hardware work. You should not take encroachment lying down. The BSA is morally wrong and should not be allowed to influence the law.
You can't force people to be free but can spread the word and you don't have to help enslave others. You can avoid the use of non free programs and formats. You can tell people why those things are wrong. You can also complain when forced by others to make a choice between your software freedom and co-operating with them. Yes, you can do all of the above without looking of feeling like an ass. When it's your government that does the forcing, as FEMA did in the wake of Katrina and Rita, they are doing it with your money and this is much worse.
You can't get around the government. A store that does not support my free browser won't get my money, someone else will. My wife will write them a letter telling them how she would like to give them her money, but can't. They do listen and respond. If your government decides to make a non free program their "standard" for doing business, you are stuck. That kind of lock in is the last hope for non free software makers. Everyone else, including state governments, are turning away.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Technical Information Service and the Office of Technology Policy all fall under the oversight of the Technology Administration
So there's one big no vote on making any free file formats or programs standard issue for government offices. That's a big deal.
People from the BSA have no place in government service in any case. The BSA is an organization that sued public schools systems for copying a text editor. People who do things like that should be shunned.
Ugh, he even looks like a bit character from the Sopranos.
That's the receptionist's desk. His gold plated, diamond studded, virgin Brazilian hardwood desk with human skull feet and bone handles is in his office. It only has one monitor on it's running enlightenment because he got tired of mousing over three desktops and the HVAC hurricane it took to cool it all off.
Some things never change. There's not much paper on this desk either, though he did use a mac. To do lists are for people who have real tasks. One day, if he ever has something to really do and a calendar program with better todo list integration than Outlook, he'll understand how silly his "folder" organization is.
No one should take this man as a model of how to get things done, but they do. All the tasks that you and I have to do, he simply tells someone else to do. Email is everything to him. The level of control this man personally exercises over the work habits of people in big dumb companies is astounding. He's completely out of touch with real world activities, yet he exercises crazy micro control of Microsoft and Windows development. Perhaps this is one of the more important reasons M$ has yet to ship Vista. Down to Earth? Sure, if you consider your head shoved up your ass a down poisition.
Mepis would be easier and more profitable. Put a few of those machines on display and Windoze piracy would drop to zero. It's too much trouble and you lose way too much by doing it.
Small computer stores make no money off software.
What greed? If you have lived free, everyone will have what's worth having already. Digital records allow sharing that physical objects never enjoyed.
I don't have any non free software or other silly junk written in dissapearing ink. I used MSDos, Windoze 3.1, 95 and 98 before I learned my lesson. They sit in a closet, to be looked on in 50 years as curiosities. I doubt anything will run them and free software works better than newer of the same. My wife and 4 year old girl use that better software.
Because of that they can help me build the digital record we can all look back on and share. I've got about 20 GB of pictures in a simple digital photo album. Some of those pictures are scans of parent and grandparent photo albums. Anyone in my family can have it now, so digitization has increased the worth of the collection for everyone. These albums and the stories they told me are worth much more than the physical things they left, which will rot away. I imagine my email will be more interesting that reams of old letters, because email is easier to store and search through.
It's inconceivable that that kind of information would be hoarded but people have strange ideas.
The lie evaporates when you invert the numbers and statements as you did. It's a tremendous success that more than half of SMB are interested in Linux. Compare Microsoft's huge marketing budget to that of all the free software advertising combined. It's like comparing your house to Texas. In this case, the sample was skewed too:
the survey, conducted through email solicitation from subscribers to EE Times, Embedded Systems Design and Embedded Systems Design Europe, as well as registrants for the Embedded Systems Conference, are based on 1,217 respondents
Those running Linux probably filtered the "solicitation" out as spam. Those attending the conference may not be the best cross section of the industry.
The "no interest" lie not working and it backfires. People don't trust Microsoft, especially those who know better and are in a position to make decisions. Embedded developers are in that group. Many might not have time to play around with something new, but they have indeed heard about and are very interested in a high quality, zero cost operating system. In the end, the lies just taints the liar.
You expect it to work as well or better than your Play Station. If it came from Microsoft, you probably would not expect the same. There are levels of hell in the non free world.
That's because he does not sell them. If it makes you feel better, make a donation or join the FSF.
Can i violate GPL and he'd be happy?
No.
The point of said, "violations," is to help your neighbor. Your obligations to people around you should always outweigh your obligation to Bill Gates and other greed heads. Public libraries are founded on this principle. Sharing and co-operation are good for everyone. Information, unlike all physical goods, has always been free to share. It is only recently that the US has made sharing information a crime. The laws do this are simply wrong.
Some people, who can't seem to finish their own OS after five years, would love to do what you suggest, so they can better screw their users. The laws they made, which keep them in business, prevent it. Microsoft is going to have to code or legislate themselves out of their GPL troubles. Their coding efforts appear to have failed.
OpenBSD: "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!"
Microsoft: Only one OS release in five years!
Free Software: Billions and Billions served.
According to XBill, Windows itself is actually a virus cleverly disguised as an OS. If you read the EULA, you discover it's also a rootkit. The software's owner, with your click through permission, has helped themselves to the right to inspect and delete any file on your system.
I've never seen malware removal really work. In sane places, it's mostly a tool to show the user that their computer really is rooted and SOP has always been wipe and reload.
The big difference between *nix and Windoze is the difficulty of the wipe and reload. The easiest case is free software in a standard configuration. You just copy the binary out and leave the home partition alone and the system is fixed. Non free software brings levels of difficulty due to copy protection and other licensing issues. Windoze is the worst in that regard because the registry has no standards to it and each little program puts it's licensing stuff there and elsewhere. Each workstation requires individual attention unless you severely limit the user's choice of software.
Microsoft's admission of these problems is amazing.
This is an admission of failure on Microsoft's part. The complexity and inflexibility of such a system is unacceptable and the efficacy is questionable. What's keeping the bad guys off your image server? If they root that, they have every machine in your organization. The same kind of thing can be said of local image copies, you are moving the target not fixing the root problem which is an unacceptably poor security model. The cost of all of this is a complete loss of user freedom within the organization. If your users can't chose the tools they need, they can't do the work that makes the company run. "Standardized desktop" a euphemism for vendor lock in.
Yes they do. They were only too happy to do that.
kill 10's of thousands of people and wash thier hands of it
You don't think software they provide to help China find dissidents won't lead to thousands of political murders? We're talking about a country that harvests organs from political prisoners, on demand and brag about it. (short version).
You might be able to rationalize that by all the cool things you can buy for cheap down at the Walmart, but that's what working with a Communist country supports.
If that's not special enough or bad enough for you, why not look at the very negative influence his greed worldview supports. Massive propaganda in support of the DMCA and other abominations of law. The BSA and lawsuits against US public school systems for copying a text editor. How about their current stupid fight against the best the internet has to offer, Google and Wikipedia, because free information does not fit into their greedy world view? How about fighting the internet itself and pressuring ISPs to reduce their services based on their own crappy software? Microsoft has retarded US computer technology by a decade and ultimately are enemies of knowledge. That's evil.
"ProClarity's business intelligence is going to be made into a full service package," he said, "and as my former associate Steve Ballmer said, we always eat our own dogfood."
"The inspiration hit me as I was working late one night with the people in our secret Linux Counter Operations Center. Part of my current FUD is that the upfront costs of softare are trivial next compared to your salary. -strike Hee, hee, I love that one because it makes people think you should pay Microsoft as much for your employees tools as you pay your employees just so they can text edit. Strike that, or I'll feed you to my goldfish. Where was I? Oh yes, end strike- I kept hearing all the same stupid ideas and realized that a piece of software could be much smarter. It was geunius [air quote sic]. By firing my own middle management, I'd reduce Windows TOC to be on a par with Linux while increasing pricing and revenue. More importantly, I could have more middle management for Microsoft for less money and none of them would ever talk back or try to steal my stock again."
"I plan to have it manage it's own development and to roll it out as a free part of Server 2010. Our fourtune 100 and government partners have been looking for a way to save money and I'm going to sell them on this. If it works for the world's biggest and bestests ever software company in the whole universe, it will work for them. Those who resist will be labled terrorists in half a dozen government databases managed by my software."
nice, thanks.
For older models, that's true. I have a H320 and like it.
What newer models is it true for? I know that it's not true for every model available at Best Buy. All of them use, mtp, a crapy M$ transfer protocol. I tried the small portable players and the nifty looking movie player and another one in between. I'd love to see a link to a model without this problem.