No one is asking for any IP. All that is being asked for is the specs.
It should rightfully contain what are the inputs to be given for different functions and what output is returned. No one needs to know the source of the function. And its not like the courts are asking MS to hand hold their competitors and teach them how to build a particular widget. Just throw the various APIs out in the open already.
I don't know what you are complaining about. For once i saw no dupes on slashdot and the icing on the cake was that the grammar and spelling was above average. Whats up with that? I mean Slashdot must be going down the tubes.
Before flaming me down, I'd appreciate if you could read my post in its entirety.
I am from India and my site targets a world audience (we offer hotel booking service for Indian hotels). Its difficult for me to judge how users from other countries are liking or disliking the site and what we are doing right or wrong.
I use this service as a sort of marketing research/Focus group and the review has helped me immensely to know what needs to be changed, to make it easier for our customers abroad.
On the net, when you get a feedback, you take it very seriously as only 1 in about 1000 users who have the thought send you the feedback. But i don't want to wait knowing that 999 users may not have liked some aspect of the site. We are small and financial resources are always scarce, so this is a good way to get feedback on our site.
I actually only ask for an honest review, and in fact encourage them to blog their criticisms.
A couple of points from what i have seen.
The group of bloggers there will most probably have at least seven degrees of separation from the average slashdotter. So you got nothing to worry about ever being mis-led by them.
They honestly mention if a particular post was paid for or not.
Most of them are not anonymous.
Though an brutally honest review of the site may have been asked for, lots of them don't give one. Their editorial reads like scripted by a marketing droid.
I feel they are really not much of a threat to the blogosphere.
You should be more worried about paid, anonymous, astroturf(er)s whose sponsors are not known and their intentions are at best of times unfathomable.
I neither own any stake nor am i in any way connected (other than having used their services) to payperpost. I also am not benefited monetarily or otherwise from this post.
And the reason i am posting this under my slashdot account with my web address is because i never do anything i feel is morally repugnant and as a result got nothing to fear.
So flame away.
PS: Do any of you know of an online service where you can hire or rent a focus group which fits a SMB's budget? I would love to get more info. Thank you.
Secondly, Linux, right now, isn't really a threat to Microsoft. They treat it as one because a lot of people are becoming more receptive to it, but the sheer fact of the matter is that Linux, to the layperson, is by and large unusable. You can't install it on the computer of the average soccer mom or octogenarian, because they just won't get it. Oh yeah? Why don't you come to my office and ask the soccer moms here who have never touched a computer in the 30 years of their existence how much they are loving it.
And with the latest releases of fc6 and Ubuntu edgy, they feel that the 3d desktop is very intuitive. The start menu is only confusing if you have to be weaned of Windows. Not if your start is Linux. And in India lots of us are getting their start with Linux. It is now a threat to windows. Use vista and then any installation of linux with beryl. Check it out http://youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI
I think you are taking my comment a little bit out of context. The comment has no right to stand on its own as it is a reply to this part of the summary.
And yet, by and large, he had accurately, chillingly, prophesied an entire decade or two of software and hardware development. All in all, a fascinating talk from one of the most powerful speakers in CS and IT. So please don't read it the way its not meant to be read.
And yet, by and large, he had accurately, chillingly, prophesied an entire decade or two of software and hardware development. All in all, a fascinating talk from one of the most powerful speakers in CS and IT I didn't have time to RTFA or STFV (see the f***in video), but did he predict anything even remotely close to the concept of Linux?
Sorry, now I just have to ask who reviewed this article for sanity... Didn't you get the memo? Slashdot uses a new technology called spin-a-yarn which auto magically chooses the best stories out of all the submitted ones. Unfortunately it sometimes spins so fast that it goes back in time and reposts a few stories now and then. But most of the time it spins so slowly that it always ends up posting current stories in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
LTTE might have started as a group of freedom fighters.
But they are no longer one.
No one is asking for any IP. All that is being asked for is the specs.
It should rightfully contain what are the inputs to be given for different functions and what output is returned. No one needs to know the source of the function. And its not like the courts are asking MS to hand hold their competitors and teach them how to build a particular widget. Just throw the various APIs out in the open already.
So you were saying?...
I don't know what you are complaining about. For once i saw no dupes on slashdot and the icing on the cake was that the grammar and spelling was above average. Whats up with that? I mean Slashdot must be going down the tubes.
Before flaming me down, I'd appreciate if you could read my post in its entirety.
I am from India and my site targets a world audience (we offer hotel booking service for Indian hotels). Its difficult for me to judge how users from other countries are liking or disliking the site and what we are doing right or wrong.
I use this service as a sort of marketing research/Focus group and the review has helped me immensely to know what needs to be changed, to make it easier for our customers abroad.
On the net, when you get a feedback, you take it very seriously as only 1 in about 1000 users who have the thought send you the feedback. But i don't want to wait knowing that 999 users may not have liked some aspect of the site. We are small and financial resources are always scarce, so this is a good way to get feedback on our site.
I actually only ask for an honest review, and in fact encourage them to blog their criticisms.
A couple of points from what i have seen.
The group of bloggers there will most probably have at least seven degrees of separation from the average slashdotter. So you got nothing to worry about ever being mis-led by them.
They honestly mention if a particular post was paid for or not.
Most of them are not anonymous.
Though an brutally honest review of the site may have been asked for, lots of them don't give one. Their editorial reads like scripted by a marketing droid.
I feel they are really not much of a threat to the blogosphere.
You should be more worried about paid, anonymous, astroturf(er)s whose sponsors are not known and their intentions are at best of times unfathomable.
I neither own any stake nor am i in any way connected (other than having used their services) to payperpost. I also am not benefited monetarily or otherwise from this post.
And the reason i am posting this under my slashdot account with my web address is because i never do anything i feel is morally repugnant and as a result got nothing to fear.
So flame away.
PS: Do any of you know of an online service where you can hire or rent a focus group which fits a SMB's budget? I would love to get more info. Thank you.
I think you got me wrong. I am not talking about the technical specifications of GNU-Linux. I am talking of the philosophy behind it.
You know the one that wants to really set you free.
I am free and I am loving it!
I don't think so.