Apple moved a lot of engineers over to the iPhone project to get it out the door on schedule. Perhaps the increase in unpatched bugs is related to that. It certainly impacted the release of new hardware.
Your comments are factually incorrect. I am one of the original OneWorld developers (DB Middleware Project Lead) and take great issue with your comments.
OneWorld runs on AS/400, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux (In Beta) and MS Windows. Databases supported, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 UDB and DB2/400. World runs on the AS/400 only. World still has a loyal following. I have worked as a consultant at a Multi-billion company that has successfully deployed to over 1000 users on three continents with plans to roll out to 3000 more. If you would like to get some help with your rollout issues, take a look at http://www.theiconsortium.com. There are many experienced consultants there that would be glad to assist.
One very nice side effect of the research efforts to put humans on mars will be recycling technology and efficient use of limited resources. With the planets' ever-growing population, I believe this technology would be very useful indeed.
IT companies are not required to distribute source unless they distribute binaries outside of their organization. For most IT projects, this is not a barrier. Software companies, like Microsoft, are obviously impacted.
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We now have an explanation for what killed the dinosaurs! Bacteria from the future brought to the past by time travellers...
We will fund the program at or above a rate of at least 30 efforts per year (current value of approximately $1M) for at least the next 3 years.
What happens in three years if Sun decides to discontinue the program? This smells of Sun "buying time" so that everyone will quit complaining. I am glad Sun is accomodating OSS, but I do not see a long term solution to the problem in Sun's proposal.
Until the lifecycle costs of software - design, coding, testing AND support are considered, I do not think costs OR productivity can be accurately measured. I once spent six months "fixing" a production process so that it would work reliably. I have rarely seen a development manager get in trouble for producting a high-maintenance software product. In short, software still costs money after it is "thrown over the fence" to production.
I worked for a manager that used lines of code as his metric. He was an idiot, but he still signed my time sheet. I think it is fair to say that many IT managers have never been trained on how to manage people or software projects.
A quote from the FAQ which I believe applies to your situation:
"The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the users, under the GPL.
Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you."
If you have a 14-year-old daughter, the point is very clear. Your children can be exposed to porn even if they are not looking for it. The fact that the spammer is not checking profiles actually makes it worse.
"The Department of Justice is arguing that there are simply too many comments to publish on paper, despite the legal requirement to do so."
If the DOJ is no longer required to publish (dead tree) the comments, care should be taken to ensure that the new medium is not used as a way to hide or bury the comments.
IANAL - but this is a *very* big deal (news). If violations of the GPL are not pursued, then the license becomes null and void. Lack of enforcement would make the GPL license just like the BSD license. I doubt anyone who believes in the GPL would like to see that happen. By posting this story on Slashdot, Sony is provided with a warning that they are "found out", giving them the opportunity to do the right thing and release the source. Posting this story also gives people that would be willing to fund a legal battle notice that there is a problem. Given the implications of letting a company slide on a GPL license violation, I believe that giving this problem the most (negative) publicity possible is a good idea.
Greg
I was considering using the Darwin Streaming Server in a project, but the termination clause scared me off. Putting Apple in a position to yank the rug out from under my open source product at any time has zero appeal to me. I understand that Apple does not want their competitors to use their hard (programming)work against them, but if Apples' goal is to promote widespread use of their technologies, the current APSL is not the way to do it.
I agree, legacy support is a pain (Can you say year 2000 problem?). The point I am making is that it is necessary to do this if you want a 3d window manager to have a chance at adoption. Otherwise, the cost of moving over to a new paradigm becomes very high.
The lack of kid-oriented software (free and non-free) will keep Linux out of Elementary Schools. The teachers can go to a computer store and buy a CD, install and go with windows and Mac. There is no easy way for a teacher, who may not be very proficient with computers, to do the same thing with Linux.
Since most current applications are 2d, a 3d window manager that supports the old 2d applications is far more likely to gain widespread support since an immediate port of all legacy applications is not required. That said, I think experiments like this one are great!
unless the Linux version is of lower quality. That said, the more commercial tools that are released for Linux, the easier it is to sell to corporate suits as a viable alternative. The key here is assimilation through patience. Very few corporations will be willing to buy into the entire free software concept up front. But many would consider installing Linux if their favorite commercial tools were available for it. Once a free operating system is installed, that opens the door for free alternatives to commercial products. All you have to do is have a quality free alternative ready to offer when a commercial product has a show-stopper bug or an unacceptable timeline for a needed upgrade. One would hope, over time, an obvious pattern would emerge;).
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Apple moved a lot of engineers over to the iPhone project to get it out the door on schedule. Perhaps the increase in unpatched bugs is related to that. It certainly impacted the release of new hardware.
Your comments are factually incorrect. I am one of the original OneWorld developers (DB Middleware Project Lead) and take great issue with your comments.
OneWorld runs on AS/400, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux (In Beta) and MS Windows. Databases supported, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 UDB and DB2/400. World runs on the AS/400 only. World still has a loyal following.
I have worked as a consultant at a Multi-billion company that has successfully deployed to over 1000 users on three continents with plans to roll out to 3000 more. If you would like to get some help with your rollout issues, take a look at http://www.theiconsortium.com. There are many experienced consultants there that would be glad to assist.
Stupid people write stupid programs. The language is not the issue.
One very nice side effect of the research efforts to put humans on mars will be recycling technology and efficient use of limited resources. With the planets' ever-growing population, I believe this technology would be very useful indeed.
Greg
This was a lawsuit waiting to happen.
IT companies are not required to distribute source unless they distribute binaries outside of their organization. For most IT projects, this is not a barrier. Software companies, like Microsoft, are obviously impacted.
We now have an explanation for what killed the dinosaurs! Bacteria from the future brought to the past by time travellers...
What happens in three years if Sun decides to discontinue the program? This smells of Sun "buying time" so that everyone will quit complaining. I am glad Sun is accomodating OSS, but I do not see a long term solution to the problem in Sun's proposal.
Greg
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Greg
A quote from the FAQ which I believe applies to your situation:
"The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization. But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the users, under the GPL. Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you."
Greg
If you have a 14-year-old daughter, the point is very clear. Your children can be exposed to porn even if they are not looking for it.
The fact that the spammer is not checking profiles actually makes it worse.
Greg
If the DOJ is no longer required to publish (dead tree) the comments, care should be taken to ensure that the new medium is not used as a way to hide or bury the comments.
Greg
Yes
IANAL - but this is a *very* big deal (news). If violations of the GPL are not pursued, then the license becomes null and void. Lack of enforcement would make the GPL license just like the BSD license. I doubt anyone who believes in the GPL would like to see that happen. By posting this story on Slashdot, Sony is provided with a warning that they are "found out", giving them the opportunity to do the right thing and release the source. Posting this story also gives people that would be willing to fund a legal battle notice that there is a problem. Given the implications of letting a company slide on a GPL license violation, I believe that giving this problem the most (negative) publicity possible is a good idea. Greg
I was considering using the Darwin Streaming Server in a project, but the termination clause scared me off. Putting Apple in a position to yank the rug out from under my open source product at any time has zero appeal to me. I understand that Apple does not want their competitors to use their hard (programming)work against them, but if Apples' goal is to promote widespread use of their technologies, the current APSL is not the way to do it.
I agree, legacy support is a pain (Can you say year 2000 problem?). The point I am making is that it is necessary to do this if you want a 3d window manager to have a chance at adoption. Otherwise, the cost of moving over to a new paradigm becomes very high.
The lack of kid-oriented software (free and non-free) will keep Linux out of Elementary Schools. The teachers can go to a computer store and buy a CD, install and go with windows and Mac. There is no easy way for a teacher, who may not be very proficient with computers, to do the same thing with Linux.
Since most current applications are 2d, a 3d window manager that supports the old 2d applications is far more likely to gain widespread support since an immediate port of all legacy applications is not required. That said, I think experiments like this one are great!
unless the Linux version is of lower quality. That said, the more commercial tools that are released for Linux, the easier it is to sell to corporate suits as a viable alternative. The key here is assimilation through patience. Very few corporations will be willing to buy into the entire free software concept up front. But many would consider installing Linux if their favorite commercial tools were available for it. Once a free operating system is installed, that opens the door for free alternatives to commercial products. All you have to do is have a quality free alternative ready to offer when a commercial product has a show-stopper bug or an unacceptable timeline for a needed upgrade. One would hope, over time, an obvious pattern would emerge ;).
Microway sells a low end Alpha workstation. Take a look at http://www.microway.com/specials/alpha.html#specia l4.