He is preaching for clearing the gene pool and asks for bombing universities and killing hackers instead of retarded adults who even commited some serious crimes. This seems to me like a good contribution to Darwin theory.
They are just using every single legal way how to delay the case from getting back to lower court which could assign some immediate remedies based on upholding of the findings of facts. I can see that they just try to ship WinXP before the court can even consider the case...
The really interesting question was (10), but he dodged this one. I think that this clearly shows where IBM has still problems and does not really know what approach to take...
Well, now I know that it does not help to balance temeratures on both sides of curtain, but I should really just turn the shower to the wall when the water is not comming down at me. I personally am really thankful to prof. Schmodt for the answer:)
Well, what can you say! They were warned! Red Bull says in every advertisements that it gives you wings and displays the figures who drink it as Angels. What more they need to say, damn it?
On the other hand with Windows XP blocked, we might see some more money in R&D invested by computer manufacturers into a Linux desktop. Don't you understand? The monopoly is bad for the industry. If something like delaying XP should set back whole industry, then something is wrong. I would rather let the PC market recover for even 2 more years and then come out healthy, than have it recover immediatelly for the price of having it en large taxed by Microsoft.
That seems a bit unjustified considering that the case is still under heavy appeal and that the government still has a long, long, long way to go before they can call this one "done".
Not really when you take in account, that they have been found GUILTY and the only thing reverted is the punishment.
Its like if you would say, well, this murderer was found guilty, but since he apppealed death sentence, we should let him go free before we find appropriate sentence and litigate it in court to the end. I think that even injunction against WXP wouldn't be enough to bare microsoft from repeating its crime.
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Well, US has a law against using software products from non-US based companies in sensitive areas of government (if not in all govt.) The only reason why other governments didn't have such law is that there was no such option. Now that there is open source software, that is the next best thing to having it produced by your own citizens. So NATURALY every sane government is pushing to use such software when they got the chance. Thats no surprise.
You forgot to put it in context with recent news that DoD is preparing 6 billion contract with Microsoft. This is about as much as one year revenue of Microsoft and the government is traditionally M$'s best customer. If we are going to win ANYTHING in the government, chances are that it will spread inside very fast. They like the policy of one vendor and also like to save some money time from time. This might be one of the most important news for a long time...
I know few of these kiddies that are woking on Linux kernel. 3 of them as a team won an ACM programming contest 3 years ago, beating guys from MIT, Berkeley and Stanford. One wrote a web search engine (commercially used now) as a one semester work. I am not sure about these real programmers, but I had also chance to see how it looks in commercial software development and I wish like hell to have some of these kiddies as my co-workers.
I've read the article before I left for vacation one week ago. This is hardly some news.
On the other hand I can agree partly with the article. In case that we will have service oriented software, the authentication is likely to get monopolized and thus who will win the authentication services is going to dictate terms
similar to the way when you control the platform. Although this monopoly might not be so stable and we should definitely go for open standards to prevent it.
I spent two years of my life (10-11) playing and mastering PacMan. If Bill Gates would speek sooner, I could have put this on my resume as Linux related skills.
Well, I am not sure, but Oracle is pragmatic company, they use Sun's C compiler to compile for SPARCs and GCC for Linux on intel. Whats a big deal? Everybody distributing some soft for Linux usually uses GCC compiler. Its just pragmatic decision.
First and foremost? Why should Fortune 500 company want to cut the cost of web development? I suppose that this guy mentioned the F500 just to get hit and score a post. But to the matter...
Is open source actually improving their business somehow? I am not so sure about it. Take for example Oracle 9i AS. This web solution is based on Apache Web server and adds a value to this, great Java support and enterprise level of caching technology with a patented solution for cashing dynamic content. With what open source solution you want to replace it? Its already using all from open source that is avaiable and just adding more value to the whole package. You don't have anything in open source that could really replace this. (And no, don't even think about OSS application servers like Zope. They are just a joke. Sorry.)
Its all working cool for small business and it would work maybe even for larger companies, but you are not looking in Fortune 500, maybe in Fortune 50000:))
We have had the best dubbing in the world at time and basicly 90% of all movies comming to local market are still dubbed. I suppose that profesional dubbing would not force the original
company to nothing. All the work and expense is usually on the reseller and production companies.
How it works? I remember that one of the techniques, they were using was to insert or remove some frames from the movie so the picture actually fits the voice better. Also, we have the luck of having one of the most bendable languages out there with zillions of synonyms, I am not sure how easy it would be for Japanese or other languages.
You know, I hear all the time how this and that business teamed in effort to bring more Linux apps, but I somehow fail to see the apps comming from these efforts. Do you remember the famous Gnome foundation, it was a lot of hype and did it actually help Gnome? Not much. Maybe it will, but... my point is that when you see some Linux apps, there is usually single developer behind them or team of 4-5 excited programmers doing it on their spare time. Somehow it seems to me that multi-million corporations should be able to do more than I could see so far.
Hmm, seems that with the anti-trust decision almost in their pocket and no new process having chance to get through sooner than in 2005 earliest, Microsoft is starting all-out war on all fronts. After all, I always thought that it is just a matter of time before frontpage will add to all pages a small javascript header which for non-IE browsers replaces the content with a simple message Your browser is not compliant with MS standards and therefore cannot view this page properly.
*sigh* You definitely are *NOT* tech saavy and it shows. Integrating Mozilla in the Linux kernel is the worst idea I've ever heard. Why?
The kernel would be even more bloated/slower than its now and it would not help a single bit.
The kernel would be less secure and stable because of the additional code.
Microsoft did not integrate IE into their kernel, my god. They integrated it into their OS, which is VERY different. There is no special code for IE in any M$ kernel!
M$ integrated IE into Windows at the level of shared libraries and highly reusable shared components.
And this is exactly what is Mozilla doing now. Its a set of shared libraries and highly reusable components used to build several basic applications. (Browser, Mail, News, Chat, IM, Image Viewer, HTML/XML Editor, and others.)
So please stop talking nonsence and look better on what is actually done on both sides.
I think the news just mixed two things. The real deal is bound to the recent article about AOL threatening to start PR campaign which dumps XP and send them into dust. They said that they will not support XP and suggest all their customers not to buy it since its (a lot of made up reasons here).
So the deal basicly is:
Microsoft will work with AOL to make it possible for AOL 6.0 to run on XP as they come out and even put AOL 6.0 on the install CD.
AOL will not launch an attack against XP, but will support it and the fact that AOL 6.0 is running on XP and even bundled to it will help Microsoft to launch WinXP effectively. Something that otherwise might not happen at all.
What is at stake here? Why is Microsoft dumping MSN's business in favor of AOL? Because they make a shortterm sacrifice for a long term gain!
MSN will lose some client to AOL.
Microsoft gets Win XP in every household.
XP is a basis for their subscription oriented business and also for.NET
If XP fails,.NET will get delayed by one or two years at least.
Also no one will really want subscribtion for Office XP.
Windows XP can leverage use of Office XP by intentional incompatibilities with Office 2000. Its all very easy.
In other words, Microsoft is trading its future and maybe even survival for just dumping MSN business a bit in favor of AOL.
Actually RIAA works like a shark in still water. It ensures the quality of best of breed products. They already downed the technically inferior Napster and they are going after poor design in Aimster next. After they will be done, only the best and most distributed and thus also best networking solutions will survive. They will maybe even help us unite on a general standard for file exchange. I think that one day in near future we will thank them!
Well, they write that they expect people to do some development on the mainframe under Linux. I don't know how other developers, but I am certainly not going to do some work, when I am sure that after x days I won't even have ability to use it.
I agree that the limited time is good for the 'testing' users who just want to know how it feels, but I doubt they will appeal to someone who would like to do a serious work with such conditions.
I am perfectly able to express myself in Czech and Slovak (my native languages) and still can write a text that people find +3 interesting and +1 informative in English and I would be able to do the same in Russian and German as well. Can I suppose you would be able to express yourself in any other language than English half that well?
On the other hand, I have read some of your recent submissions to k5 and I could hardly call them coherent. Especially I remember your article about your dislike for trolls since it seems you act like one many times:)
Well, you might not, but... would they dare to risk it? If you would find out, you could just buy the product and then force them to release whole source code under GPL. Or at least you could get court order to remove this code from their product and stop selling the current version which could cost them dearly.
And they cannot be really sure that no one will discover it, since some employee has to incorporate the code, some has to review it, and they sometimes lay off people, you know? And still there are these rich companies with access to the code who are not all M$ friendly. I guess some of them could just make an interesting compare of M$ OS with some other licensed OSS operating systems. And so on... they can never be sure, and I guess they would not dare to risk it.
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He is preaching for clearing the gene pool and asks for bombing universities and killing hackers instead of retarded adults who even commited some serious crimes. This seems to me like a good contribution to Darwin theory.
Both of them?
They are just using every single legal way how to delay the case from getting back to lower court which could assign some immediate remedies based on upholding of the findings of facts. I can see that they just try to ship WinXP before the court can even consider the case...
The really interesting question was (10), but he dodged this one. I think that this clearly shows where IBM has still problems and does not really know what approach to take...
Well, now I know that it does not help to balance temeratures on both sides of curtain, but I should really just turn the shower to the wall when the water is not comming down at me. I personally am really thankful to prof. Schmodt for the answer :)
Well, what can you say! They were warned! Red Bull says in every advertisements that it gives you wings and displays the figures who drink it as Angels. What more they need to say, damn it?
On the other hand with Windows XP blocked, we might see some more money in R&D invested by computer manufacturers into a Linux desktop. Don't you understand? The monopoly is bad for the industry. If something like delaying XP should set back whole industry, then something is wrong. I would rather let the PC market recover for even 2 more years and then come out healthy, than have it recover immediatelly for the price of having it en large taxed by Microsoft.
Not really when you take in account, that they have been found GUILTY and the only thing reverted is the punishment.
Its like if you would say, well, this murderer was found guilty, but since he apppealed death sentence, we should let him go free before we find appropriate sentence and litigate it in court to the end. I think that even injunction against WXP wouldn't be enough to bare microsoft from repeating its crime.
Well, US has a law against using software products from non-US based companies in sensitive areas of government (if not in all govt.) The only reason why other governments didn't have such law is that there was no such option. Now that there is open source software, that is the next best thing to having it produced by your own citizens. So NATURALY every sane government is pushing to use such software when they got the chance. Thats no surprise.
You forgot to put it in context with recent news that DoD is preparing 6 billion contract with Microsoft. This is about as much as one year revenue of Microsoft and the government is traditionally M$'s best customer. If we are going to win ANYTHING in the government, chances are that it will spread inside very fast. They like the policy of one vendor and also like to save some money time from time. This might be one of the most important news for a long time...
I know few of these kiddies that are woking on Linux kernel. 3 of them as a team won an ACM programming contest 3 years ago, beating guys from MIT, Berkeley and Stanford. One wrote a web search engine (commercially used now) as a one semester work. I am not sure about these real programmers, but I had also chance to see how it looks in commercial software development and I wish like hell to have some of these kiddies as my co-workers.
On the other hand I can agree partly with the article. In case that we will have service oriented software, the authentication is likely to get monopolized and thus who will win the authentication services is going to dictate terms similar to the way when you control the platform. Although this monopoly might not be so stable and we should definitely go for open standards to prevent it.
I spent two years of my life (10-11) playing and mastering PacMan. If Bill Gates would speek sooner, I could have put this on my resume as Linux related skills.
Well, I am not sure, but Oracle is pragmatic company, they use Sun's C compiler to compile for SPARCs and GCC for Linux on intel. Whats a big deal? Everybody distributing some soft for Linux usually uses GCC compiler. Its just pragmatic decision.
Is open source actually improving their business somehow? I am not so sure about it. Take for example Oracle 9i AS. This web solution is based on Apache Web server and adds a value to this, great Java support and enterprise level of caching technology with a patented solution for cashing dynamic content. With what open source solution you want to replace it? Its already using all from open source that is avaiable and just adding more value to the whole package. You don't have anything in open source that could really replace this. (And no, don't even think about OSS application servers like Zope. They are just a joke. Sorry.)
Its all working cool for small business and it would work maybe even for larger companies, but you are not looking in Fortune 500, maybe in Fortune 50000 :))
How it works? I remember that one of the techniques, they were using was to insert or remove some frames from the movie so the picture actually fits the voice better. Also, we have the luck of having one of the most bendable languages out there with zillions of synonyms, I am not sure how easy it would be for Japanese or other languages.
You know, I hear all the time how this and that business teamed in effort to bring more Linux apps, but I somehow fail to see the apps comming from these efforts. Do you remember the famous Gnome foundation, it was a lot of hype and did it actually help Gnome? Not much. Maybe it will, but... my point is that when you see some Linux apps, there is usually single developer behind them or team of 4-5 excited programmers doing it on their spare time. Somehow it seems to me that multi-million corporations should be able to do more than I could see so far.
Hmm, seems that with the anti-trust decision almost in their pocket and no new process having chance to get through sooner than in 2005 earliest, Microsoft is starting all-out war on all fronts. After all, I always thought that it is just a matter of time before frontpage will add to all pages a small javascript header which for non-IE browsers replaces the content with a simple message Your browser is not compliant with MS standards and therefore cannot view this page properly.
So please stop talking nonsence and look better on what is actually done on both sides.
So the deal basicly is:
Microsoft will work with AOL to make it possible for AOL 6.0 to run on XP as they come out and even put AOL 6.0 on the install CD.
AOL will not launch an attack against XP, but will support it and the fact that AOL 6.0 is running on XP and even bundled to it will help Microsoft to launch WinXP effectively. Something that otherwise might not happen at all.
What is at stake here? Why is Microsoft dumping MSN's business in favor of AOL? Because they make a shortterm sacrifice for a long term gain!
In other words, Microsoft is trading its future and maybe even survival for just dumping MSN business a bit in favor of AOL.
Actually RIAA works like a shark in still water. It ensures the quality of best of breed products. They already downed the technically inferior Napster and they are going after poor design in Aimster next. After they will be done, only the best and most distributed and thus also best networking solutions will survive. They will maybe even help us unite on a general standard for file exchange. I think that one day in near future we will thank them!
I agree that the limited time is good for the 'testing' users who just want to know how it feels, but I doubt they will appeal to someone who would like to do a serious work with such conditions.
Yes, thats basicly what I meant :)
On the other hand, I have read some of your recent submissions to k5 and I could hardly call them coherent. Especially I remember your article about your dislike for trolls since it seems you act like one many times :)
And they cannot be really sure that no one will discover it, since some employee has to incorporate the code, some has to review it, and they sometimes lay off people, you know? And still there are these rich companies with access to the code who are not all M$ friendly. I guess some of them could just make an interesting compare of M$ OS with some other licensed OSS operating systems. And so on... they can never be sure, and I guess they would not dare to risk it.