Microsoft slipped and did something everyone can understand. Most Internet users don't understand the absolute evil of "decommoditizing standards", but they do understand spam. Better yet, they understand loosing face with some or all of the people in their address book. Imagine people spamming bosses and coworkers with this. I hope Microsoft stands its ground and keeps this "service" just the way it is.
MPAA will sue whom it pleases, when it pleases. The Yahoos and Googles and AOLs don't have to worry; MPAA won't bother suing them.
MPAA's goal is to put the fear of God into the little guys.
The MPAA doesn't have to sue. I would guess anyone with copyrighted material on a DVD could sue AOL. AOL wins, and a precident is set.
If a CFO, or someone who wanted to be a CFO, had to choose an OS for a server, he'd be right to go with the biggest name he could find. He hasn't a clue about how to make any better choice.
Of course, CFOs don't pick server OS's. This article was just to help them feel less lost in meetings.
What really bothers me here is the title, "Linux Should Be Shunned". Of course, Slashdot wouldn't be as exciting with titles like "Filler Article in CFOs' Mag Quotes Some Random Analyst as Saying Linux Should Be Shunned."
Another explanation is that anyone at the patent office who understood the subject well enough to write an effective counterargument could make more money in the private sector, and has, in fact, already left.
The right question is, "what languages should you show them?" The answer is, "as many as possible." The world in which we learned to program has been gone for (internet) centuries. We'd be fools to predict what would be fun for them today. So find a list of languages, do very short intro's as many as you can, answer as many questions as you can, and help them get whatever information they want.
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And sometimes Slashdot sounds like it's whining about how it sounds.
Microsoft slipped and did something everyone can understand. Most Internet users don't understand the absolute evil of "decommoditizing standards", but they do understand spam. Better yet, they understand loosing face with some or all of the people in their address book. Imagine people spamming bosses and coworkers with this. I hope Microsoft stands its ground and keeps this "service" just the way it is.
The MPAA doesn't have to sue. I would guess anyone with copyrighted material on a DVD could sue AOL. AOL wins, and a precident is set.
Of course, CFOs don't pick server OS's. This article was just to help them feel less lost in meetings.
What really bothers me here is the title, "Linux Should Be Shunned". Of course, Slashdot wouldn't be as exciting with titles like "Filler Article in CFOs' Mag Quotes Some Random Analyst as Saying Linux Should Be Shunned."
Another explanation is that anyone at the patent office who understood the subject well enough to write an effective counterargument could make more money in the private sector, and has, in fact, already left.
The right question is, "what languages should you show them?" The answer is, "as many as possible." The world in which we learned to program has been gone for (internet) centuries. We'd be fools to predict what would be fun for them today. So find a list of languages, do very short intro's as many as you can, answer as many questions as you can, and help them get whatever information they want.