Open Source and GPL have very little to do with each other. GPLing something would Open Source it, but the inverse is not necessaraly true. I think that there is exactly one person who thinks that Java should be GPLd.
"Free Software" has a specific meaning. "Open Source" also has a different specific meaning. Besides the meaning itself, "Open Source" is also an enforceable specific meaning, as "Open Source" is a trademark.
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The list of licenses that make something Open Source is here.
While there are some Sun licenses on the list, the Sun Community Source License (which Java source is provided under) is NOT.
This is not an opinion question. This is a fact. Java is NOT Open Source. It is not a little Open Source, or almost Open Source. Open Source is a binary state. It is, or it isnt. Java IS NOT.
CATAAlliance (Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance) is Canada's leading, most influential and entrepreneurial technology alliance, in regular contact with twenty thousand high tech business executives.
Assumably they surveyed their members. How many, and exactly how, I don't know. It seems to me that being an tech industry group (but not a Open Source group) it is there job to provide as acurate information as possible to there members. They are not a OSS loby group. There target audience is their members, and it is there members who pay them. They have no reason to lie.
If you realy care, you could email the person who prepare the release. Its at the bottom of the artic.. Ah, fuck. Nevermind.
The cover price for a given magazine hardly cover the production and shipping costs of it. Magazines make money from advertisers. Advertisers only count subscribers when it comes to setting ad rates.
While true, the days of Pay Per Impression are long gone.
Once upon a time, PPI was the only way banners worked.
PPI is somewhat trivial to scam; have the image 50 times as a 1x1px image, tricking users to see it, etc etc etc.
Pay Per Click came next, and is still how "search engines" such as Oveture make money. But not used very much outside PPC search engines. Payments used to be noted with the search results, but I cant find any right now. "Casino" usually paid >$19.00 per click; usually was around 2-3c per click.
Most banner adds, these days, are Pay Per Lead, or Pay Per Sale. Cookies stay around for at least a couple of months, so the "proper" person is credited. half.com (part of eBay) was paying $5/per lead at one point.
Actual product providers (be it membership sites, or physcial goods) are notorious for not paying out for anything but PPL or PPS... The excuse being "bad ratios" Of course, they don't tell you what the required ratio is.
Anyone who has a PPI setup, and is honest about payments, would quickly go out of business.
Being a Linux Admin, working mainly in ISPish companies for 5 years, a recurring problem has been user/account management. Every job that I've had, they have wanted me to build something like Plesk/ensim/cpanel. Anyway; beh... One of my personal holy grails has been a common, centerlized, user/account DB.
Virtualy all non-trivial server products I have ever laid my sights on supports Kerberos authentication. Most of them even have fairly good docs on how to configure it to use Kerberos... Out of the box, many server packages (and linux distros) "just work" with kerberos.
Apparently. I have never, ever, seen a site that has a kerberos server installed. All mailing list traffic that I have seen mentioning Kerberos is about it not working with $ml_topic. And I fail to see the advantage of using Kerberos over, say SASL with an LDAP backend... Kerberos is the network service equivelent of a GUI desktop calculator: something you need to have, even though no one ever uses it.
why not bring out Novell Directory Service across platform?
NDS/eDirectory currently runs on: Netware, Windows NT 4, Win 2k, 2003, Linux RH 7.3+, SuSE, Solaris 8, 9, AIX and HP-UX. I have to think prety hard to come up with a commercial product that runs on more platforms.
Novell had NDS ready years ago.... But? "Did not ship it?" "others diddnt use it?"... What?. First, it did ship (and is shipping). Many places use it. After Win95 came out and made file and print sharing easy enough for small networks, Novells market has been Very Large orginizations: health care, government, educational instituions. Large corprate clients bought (and still buy) Novell products. Small sites did not stop buying Novell, they stopped buying any dedicated server things.
Netware 4 (and thus, NDS) was released in 1993. Microsoft server products were (being Very kind) a compleate joke untill NT 4.0, which was released in 1996. AD was not even on the drawing board untill then, and came with Windows 2000, which shipped at least three years late.
NDS cooperates with Windows just fine (in fact, it can compleatly replace the domain-based security systems). The choice was never Novell servers OR Microsoft servers.... Im sure that a lot of sites looked at it like that, and perhaps you meant to preface you post with "while true or not, a lot of people looked at NDS v. AD as:", I cant allow you to spew off historical FUD.
Anyway, now to agree with you.. NDS is cool. NDS is very cool. And as much as I like NDS, NDS isnt the answer... The answer is LDAP, NDS is just one of the possible systems that can implement that.
And NDS is, all things consitered, prety cheep. Current list price is $2.00 per end user... Unlimited installs of the product itself. (MS stuff would be more like $300 per server, plus per-client costs)
The VM that will run Perl 6 will also be able to run Perl 5. Just as you can use Java to call GTK+, written in C, you can use Perl 6 to call Perl 5 things. You dont say that Java is reverse compatable with C, because it isn't. Perl 6 isn't reverse comptable with Perl 5, because it isn't.
The Perl 6 interpeter/VM/compiler is a compleate rewite... So much so that it isnt Perl, its Parrot. But Perl 5 isn't a rewite of Perl 5, as in: start with a blank spec. Perl 5 is a starting point, but everything is open to question... The level of tolerance for breakadge is just very high.
What planet are you living on that FPSs require fast disk access? They load the level into memory, and play from there. If your computer is hammering the disks durring game play, then something is messed up.
You talk about "grand" ideas, but then compleatly shut off the rest of the world.
It could be argued that outsourcing to a third world country is exactly the right thing to do, given a global view of things.
The goal isn't to raise the standard of living everywhere, but to make the standard of living the same everwhere while being reasonable.
As you recall from history, the Roman Empire fell because the Romans got lazy and complaciant. It became everyone agianst them, and they compleatly missed it. To busy eating ice cream in houses with indoor plumbing.
No sane sysadmin will put a 2.6 kernel on RHEL3, so your point is moot. The reason why you buy RHEL is so you get a stable, long lived distro. Third party vendors will only certify stable, long lived, distros (meaning: a specific target platform)
as being acceptable to run they systems on.
If you were to put 2.6 on RHEL3 it would no longer be RHEL3. RH would no longer support it. 3rd party vendors would no longer support it. You might as well have not spent any money on a distro and installed Fedora, or debian, or slackware, or...
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Open Source and GPL have very little to do with each other. GPLing something would Open Source it, but the inverse is not necessaraly true. I think that there is exactly one person who thinks that Java should be GPLd.
Open Source-ness is a binary state. It is, or it isnt. Java is not.
"Free Software" has a specific meaning. "Open Source" also has a different specific meaning. Besides the meaning itself, "Open Source" is also an enforceable specific meaning, as "Open Source" is a trademark.
The list of licenses that make something Open Source is here.
While there are some Sun licenses on the list, the Sun Community Source License (which Java source is provided under) is NOT.
This is not an opinion question. This is a fact. Java is NOT Open Source. It is not a little Open Source, or almost Open Source. Open Source is a binary state. It is, or it isnt. Java IS NOT.
From their website:
CATAAlliance (Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance) is Canada's leading, most influential and entrepreneurial technology alliance, in regular contact with twenty thousand high tech business executives.
Assumably they surveyed their members. How many, and exactly how, I don't know. It seems to me that being an tech industry group (but not a Open Source group) it is there job to provide as acurate information as possible to there members. They are not a OSS loby group. There target audience is their members, and it is there members who pay them. They have no reason to lie.If you realy care, you could email the person who prepare the release. Its at the bottom of the artic.. Ah, fuck. Nevermind.
The cover price for a given magazine hardly cover the production and shipping costs of it. Magazines make money from advertisers. Advertisers only count subscribers when it comes to setting ad rates.
Once upon a time, PPI was the only way banners worked.
PPI is somewhat trivial to scam; have the image 50 times as a 1x1px image, tricking users to see it, etc etc etc.
Pay Per Click came next, and is still how "search engines" such as Oveture make money. But not used very much outside PPC search engines. Payments used to be noted with the search results, but I cant find any right now. "Casino" usually paid >$19.00 per click; usually was around 2-3c per click.
Most banner adds, these days, are Pay Per Lead, or Pay Per Sale. Cookies stay around for at least a couple of months, so the "proper" person is credited. half.com (part of eBay) was paying $5/per lead at one point.
Actual product providers (be it membership sites, or physcial goods) are notorious for not paying out for anything but PPL or PPS... The excuse being "bad ratios" Of course, they don't tell you what the required ratio is.
Anyone who has a PPI setup, and is honest about payments, would quickly go out of business.
What good would a C=64 emulator be if it diddnt include Lemonade Stand?
At that point you stop measuring Dots Per Inch, but Inches Per Dot.
Virtualy all non-trivial server products I have ever laid my sights on supports Kerberos authentication. Most of them even have fairly good docs on how to configure it to use Kerberos... Out of the box, many server packages (and linux distros) "just work" with kerberos.
Apparently. I have never, ever, seen a site that has a kerberos server installed. All mailing list traffic that I have seen mentioning Kerberos is about it not working with $ml_topic. And I fail to see the advantage of using Kerberos over, say SASL with an LDAP backend... Kerberos is the network service equivelent of a GUI desktop calculator: something you need to have, even though no one ever uses it.
NDS/eDirectory currently runs on: Netware, Windows NT 4, Win 2k, 2003, Linux RH 7.3+, SuSE, Solaris 8, 9, AIX and HP-UX. I have to think prety hard to come up with a commercial product that runs on more platforms.
Novell had NDS ready years ago.... But? "Did not ship it?" "others diddnt use it?"... What?. First, it did ship (and is shipping). Many places use it. After Win95 came out and made file and print sharing easy enough for small networks, Novells market has been Very Large orginizations: health care, government, educational instituions. Large corprate clients bought (and still buy) Novell products. Small sites did not stop buying Novell, they stopped buying any dedicated server things.
Netware 4 (and thus, NDS) was released in 1993. Microsoft server products were (being Very kind) a compleate joke untill NT 4.0, which was released in 1996. AD was not even on the drawing board untill then, and came with Windows 2000, which shipped at least three years late.
NDS cooperates with Windows just fine (in fact, it can compleatly replace the domain-based security systems). The choice was never Novell servers OR Microsoft servers.... Im sure that a lot of sites looked at it like that, and perhaps you meant to preface you post with "while true or not, a lot of people looked at NDS v. AD as:", I cant allow you to spew off historical FUD.
Anyway, now to agree with you.. NDS is cool. NDS is very cool. And as much as I like NDS, NDS isnt the answer... The answer is LDAP, NDS is just one of the possible systems that can implement that.
And NDS is, all things consitered, prety cheep. Current list price is $2.00 per end user... Unlimited installs of the product itself. (MS stuff would be more like $300 per server, plus per-client costs)
The VM that will run Perl 6 will also be able to run Perl 5. Just as you can use Java to call GTK+, written in C, you can use Perl 6 to call Perl 5 things. You dont say that Java is reverse compatable with C, because it isn't. Perl 6 isn't reverse comptable with Perl 5, because it isn't.
The Perl 6 interpeter/VM/compiler is a compleate rewite... So much so that it isnt Perl, its Parrot. But Perl 5 isn't a rewite of Perl 5, as in: start with a blank spec. Perl 5 is a starting point, but everything is open to question... The level of tolerance for breakadge is just very high.
Thats an ETLA!.
Windows + WMP:..............costs -1
As in, not available at any cost.
Ship your bulk paper to India where a Profesional Stapler can bind them for $5 a day.
Mind you, there are still pleanty of place still running the 4.x codebase...
What planet are you living on that FPSs require fast disk access? They load the level into memory, and play from there. If your computer is hammering the disks durring game play, then something is messed up.
$4 would be two coins. When I have money at all, I frequently having > $10 in coin in my pocket.
Shit, by definition is a negative word. If you use "shit" to describe something, by definition you are calling it bad. Bad things are unreasonable.
If the standard was shit for everyone, that would not be reasonable. Learn how to read.
It could be argued that outsourcing to a third world country is exactly the right thing to do, given a global view of things.
The goal isn't to raise the standard of living everywhere, but to make the standard of living the same everwhere while being reasonable.
As you recall from history, the Roman Empire fell because the Romans got lazy and complaciant. It became everyone agianst them, and they compleatly missed it. To busy eating ice cream in houses with indoor plumbing.
Give your potential employer something that can't be done over the phone.
2 out of 3 of those are a good thing.
If you were to put 2.6 on RHEL3 it would no longer be RHEL3. RH would no longer support it. 3rd party vendors would no longer support it. You might as well have not spent any money on a distro and installed Fedora, or debian, or slackware, or...