DX 10 being only on Vista was based on a very valid techical reason... that they gave up on and removed.
It's not too hard for a company to make a claim like that. It's classic Microsoft tactics in history to promise features that 'kill the competition' in the bullet point feature comparisons leading up to a product release, only for people to discover later that it didn't even make it into the MS product in the end.
That's called vapourware, man. Microsoft is good at it. And it's probably even important enough for marketing reasons that Microsoft is willing to throw whole teams of people 'tilting at the windmill' of the feature just for show.
Open-sourcing Solaris seems more of an end-of-life abandonware move than a product line.
That's the classic FUD statement that has been made with regard to many other formerly 'closed' projects which went Open Source. Several previous examples:
Mozilla (Netscape) Open Office (Star Office)
Just because you think such a FUD campaign may now 'benefit the community' (whatever that happens to mean at any moment) doesn't make it less of a dirty FUD campaign than it has been in the past.
More importantly, it's probably not produced by union labor, so you won't be able to keep paying the workers for building your car decades after they've retired.
The iPhone is not an interesting or compelling product because of the icons, user interface widgets, or exterior design. Copying these purely aesthetic elements does not produce what people here are calling a "clone". The iPhone is important because of the multi-touch input device, the resolution independent graphics system delivering the visuals, the hardware graphics acceleration, the frameworks underneath, and all other foundational elements that make whole classes of applications possible (e.g., the Google Maps client that nearly approaches Google Earth in presentation quality).
Lots of chatter and Apple marketing buzzwords that miss the point.
A group in China makes the first iPhone clone. It runs Linux. Sounds pretty cool.
But what erupts in the discussion threads on Slashdot?
Many, many, many long trolling rants that amount to 'matchbook cover grade Political Economy Rants.' There are pages of the long rant threads about communism versus socialism. Then big ropey threads of 'Intellectual Property' ranting.
I find the idea of an early iPhone clone, and one that runs a non-closed operating system, to be highly interesting. This wasn't even posted on apple.slashdot.org, so why have the trolls been able to turn it into an unappealing troll thread? Did Apple send out their legions tonight???
I can definitely see why they wouldn't want us discussing the cool tech features of an iPhone clone that runs Linux and can be used on any cellular network, anywhere.
A little under ten years ago there was a spammer/crapflooder typing out a funny bit about 'Robotic Peter Jennings' that seems to have completely disappeared. I found it funny and am wondering what happened to it. Did Peter Jennings get it wiped from the web?
highlight the paragraph stating you can't do anything to Microsoft if use of their product results in damage to your company, hardware, finances, etc.
One problem with your approach is that it isn't 'being able to do something to Microsoft' that matters. Businesses work together as peers, as customers, and as vendors. If your business' IT infrastructure crashes in a spectacular way because of something Microsoft, peers in other companies will say 'ah, it was Microsoft' and since all suffer together, an understanding is reached.
If your business crashes because of some issue with a Linux implementation, your business peers will have less sympathy.
People don't buy Microsoft because it is inherently better (it isn't.) They buy Microsoft because it's the no-brainer that everybody else buys, too.
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DX 10 being only on Vista was based on a very valid techical reason... that they gave up on and removed.
It's not too hard for a company to make a claim like that. It's classic Microsoft tactics in history to promise features that 'kill the competition' in the bullet point feature comparisons leading up to a product release, only for people to discover later that it didn't even make it into the MS product in the end.
That's called vapourware, man. Microsoft is good at it. And it's probably even important enough for marketing reasons that Microsoft is willing to throw whole teams of people 'tilting at the windmill' of the feature just for show.
Open-sourcing Solaris seems more of an end-of-life abandonware move than a product line.
That's the classic FUD statement that has been made with regard to many other formerly 'closed' projects which went Open Source. Several previous examples:
Mozilla (Netscape)
Open Office (Star Office)
Just because you think such a FUD campaign may now 'benefit the community' (whatever that happens to mean at any moment) doesn't make it less of a dirty FUD campaign than it has been in the past.
People the world over tolerate Microsoft. Has Microsoft __ever__ made an original product? Isn't it strange to think about that for a second?
Microsoft has made plenty.
It does seem strange to think about it in a Slashdot thread, though.
More importantly, it's probably not produced by union labor, so you won't be able to keep paying the workers for building your car decades after they've retired.
Lots of chatter and Apple marketing buzzwords that miss the point.
It runs Linux. How long before it has a web browser?
A group in China makes the first iPhone clone. It runs Linux. Sounds pretty cool.
But what erupts in the discussion threads on Slashdot?
Many, many, many long trolling rants that amount to 'matchbook cover grade Political Economy Rants.' There are pages of the long rant threads about communism versus socialism. Then big ropey threads of 'Intellectual Property' ranting.
I find the idea of an early iPhone clone, and one that runs a non-closed operating system, to be highly interesting. This wasn't even posted on apple.slashdot.org, so why have the trolls been able to turn it into an unappealing troll thread? Did Apple send out their legions tonight???
I can definitely see why they wouldn't want us discussing the cool tech features of an iPhone clone that runs Linux and can be used on any cellular network, anywhere.
Does this mean PJ goes back to being a law clerk, and we get the word 'grok' back as what Heinlein meant it to be used for?
If you want to make it comparable to the desktop chips from Intel or AMD, you'd need to generate a chip (from the now OSS tools) with fewer cores.
Maybe Intel will step in and release the UltraSPARC_T2-SX.
The Television engineers just came up with a way of helping prevent us staring at random bitmaps.
A little under ten years ago there was a spammer/crapflooder typing out a funny bit about 'Robotic Peter Jennings' that seems to have completely disappeared. I found it funny and am wondering what happened to it. Did Peter Jennings get it wiped from the web?
You do realize that the "commercial world" is an ideology itself, and...
Wow. Next you're going to tell us that the whole 'commercial world' got together in 1848 or so and published 'The Commercial World Manifesto' ???
The only thing people here are 'experts' on is flaming each other.
highlight the paragraph stating you can't do anything to Microsoft if use of their product results in damage to your company, hardware, finances, etc.
One problem with your approach is that it isn't 'being able to do something to Microsoft' that matters. Businesses work together as peers, as customers, and as vendors. If your business' IT infrastructure crashes in a spectacular way because of something Microsoft, peers in other companies will say 'ah, it was Microsoft' and since all suffer together, an understanding is reached.
If your business crashes because of some issue with a Linux implementation, your business peers will have less sympathy.
People don't buy Microsoft because it is inherently better (it isn't.) They buy Microsoft because it's the no-brainer that everybody else buys, too.