Stories like this just make muddier water.
If the OIN wants to get involved, they should offer to PURCHASE the patents, then they can sulk if they get re-buffed. Right now, they seem like little kids sulking about nothing and just using an every dirtier news stick to stir up ever muddier waters.
I care, everyone cares.
I play nursemaid to a couple of hundred corporate drones and some that run VMware copies of OS and Linux and Unix and clusters, etc.
I quit high school a total of 2 times and most of the people I work with are not only professional engineers but a lot of them have CS degrees and they still need help all the time "in the trenches" as it were, and they do not have the time or the inclination to do the dirty trench work to make things work.
If these people do not want to do it what makes you think that "joe-grandma-busdriver" wants to do it ?
I run windows on 3 of my 4 machines at home because the ONE THING that I want to do on a pc is windows only.
I want to do a few other things later on these same 3 machines that is also WINDOWS ONLY.
I like ms products, I hate flash and java in general, and the one machine that does NOT run windows as a main OS is just a hobby when I have spare time, but it does not do anything at all for me that I can not do with a windows machine, not anything. Key phrase there is that I want to do.
Everyone cares. Everyone pays, and mostly the linux crowd howls and shrieks in laughter at the people that try to tell them what to do to get in the game, it is sad really.
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Stories like this just make muddier water. If the OIN wants to get involved, they should offer to PURCHASE the patents, then they can sulk if they get re-buffed. Right now, they seem like little kids sulking about nothing and just using an every dirtier news stick to stir up ever muddier waters.
I care, everyone cares. I play nursemaid to a couple of hundred corporate drones and some that run VMware copies of OS and Linux and Unix and clusters, etc. I quit high school a total of 2 times and most of the people I work with are not only professional engineers but a lot of them have CS degrees and they still need help all the time "in the trenches" as it were, and they do not have the time or the inclination to do the dirty trench work to make things work. If these people do not want to do it what makes you think that "joe-grandma-busdriver" wants to do it ? I run windows on 3 of my 4 machines at home because the ONE THING that I want to do on a pc is windows only. I want to do a few other things later on these same 3 machines that is also WINDOWS ONLY. I like ms products, I hate flash and java in general, and the one machine that does NOT run windows as a main OS is just a hobby when I have spare time, but it does not do anything at all for me that I can not do with a windows machine, not anything. Key phrase there is that I want to do. Everyone cares. Everyone pays, and mostly the linux crowd howls and shrieks in laughter at the people that try to tell them what to do to get in the game, it is sad really.