I agree that what's going on isn't "domestic spying", at least as popularly portrayed, but that doesn't mean that most people see through it; I think it's much more likely that they simply don't care. I assert that the odds that the average person is thinking things through much deeper than "I trust the government" are fairly low.
Actually Yahoo's features are well-integrated. I use chat, email, and stocks all at the same time with a single account and password. In fact, the only reason I ever have to re-enter my password on Yahoo! is that I've explicitly told it to ask once a day.
And as far as best-of-breed, well, all I can say is they do all I expect of them. If my expectations ever change, and Yahoo! doesn't keep up, I'll stop using them. But history has shown they generally fill my needs before I even notice I have them.
Only recently have Microsoft gotten off their butts about security fixes-- but they have, and more power to them.
In answer to 2), no, it doesn't mean they're not interoperable. It just means they're not all using the same source code for everything. The biggest difference is between the *BSD flavours, and the SysV flavours (Linux started out SysV, as I understand it).
Also, OpenBSD is a BSD-based unix distribution that focuses tightly on security, and audits the software they distribute regularly to find and fix security holes before they're exploited.
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I agree that what's going on isn't "domestic spying", at least as popularly portrayed, but that doesn't mean that most people see through it; I think it's much more likely that they simply don't care. I assert that the odds that the average person is thinking things through much deeper than "I trust the government" are fairly low.
I guess this counts as "personal use", but it's certainly business use for the people who rescued him
Actually Yahoo's features are well-integrated. I use chat, email, and stocks all at the same time with a single account and password. In fact, the only reason I ever have to re-enter my password on Yahoo! is that I've explicitly told it to ask once a day.
And as far as best-of-breed, well, all I can say is they do all I expect of them. If my expectations ever change, and Yahoo! doesn't keep up, I'll stop using them. But history has shown they generally fill my needs before I even notice I have them.
Um.... okay, so instead of choosing the best of what's available, we only get to choose the best of what's available?
Now that's a searing indictment of corporate America if ever I saw one!
Only recently have Microsoft gotten off their butts about security fixes-- but they have, and more power to them.
In answer to 2), no, it doesn't mean they're not interoperable. It just means they're not all using the same source code for everything. The biggest difference is between the *BSD flavours, and the SysV flavours (Linux started out SysV, as I understand it).
Also, OpenBSD is a BSD-based unix distribution that focuses tightly on security, and audits the software they distribute regularly to find and fix security holes before they're exploited.
In fact, GNOME *uses* CORBA already-- that's what ORBit is-- an ORB for Linux.
-=Eric