...a mentality that insists Nintendo is competing with Microsoft and Sony, which it isn't.
Is he just referring to the graphics v. gameplay comparison he mentions in the final paragraph, or is he talking about something more? Does anyone have any clarification, or at least an idea, what he means by the "not competing" comment?
I can't get to TFA, but I think I can guess what the author might have been getting at when he refers to "educational software", and you're about a dozen years ahead of him. He's probably referring to home-computing educational software like "Jumpstart 2nd Grade" and the Leapfrog programs, intended for elementary school kids and younger.
FUD. Google, with one of the largest setups on the planet, uses open source software and doesn't seem to have any trouble.
Cool! Where can I download the sources for PageRank, their database schema, and their search front end?
Seriously, while you make some good points regarding the viability of building an OSS Enterprise app suite, I see two pitfalls to this approach:
Typically, ERP is designed to be customized by an army of consultants, which as others have pointed out is where the real money is. If we assume that the plain vanilla OSS package won't meet the needs of most prospective users, a third party would need to be able to recruit, train, feed (i.e., pay), and mobilize such an army on some scale. It seems like it would be extremely difficult to put together the seed capital to do that and build it into a viable business in a reasonable amount of time. I would be interested to see if the piecemeal market you envision would develop; if I were the customer and I heard that approach, I would anticipate boatloads of acrimony and finger-pointing.
As someone else alluded to above, SAP and Oracle will warrant the financial reliability of their systems, or at least they are legally-constituted entities capable of being sued. What third-party would think it smart to do that with OSS? At the very least, they would have to vet the source of each new release of the code they implemented, which adds professional costs and throws a big hurdle in the way of "release early, release often."
At this point, and IMHO, the only interesting thing that could be open-sourced out of OS/2 is the Workplace Shell, and to do that meaningfully they'd also have to open up the version of SOM (System Object Model) that it was written around.
And then someone would probably have to adapt it to X (or.NET, but I don't see that happening) for it to actually be used for anything.
The rest of the O/S was great for what it was, but what it was, was designed in 1992.
2. Hire programmers who you can tell what to do (and fire if they don't) to get a core going.
That's what he did: he hired them, told them to produce his app which would be open-sourced, they failed to do so, and he fired them. As others have alluded to, he hired a group or (presumably) talented coders, but found that they were unable or unmotivated to organize themselves into a project development team.
Personally, I find the more interesting portion of the story to be what happened next: he wanted to keep the open-development paradigm, only with more control over the outcome. So, he hired two separate teams to work on the code cathedral-style, but forced them to collaborate via open mailing lists and forums. Intriguing.
Of course they do. "legitimate" is a synonym for "lawful." In the USA, Congress has exercised their preogative under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" According to Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States Senate Document No. 108-17 2002 Edition: Cases Decided to June 28, 2002, found online at
The exclusive right which Congress is authorized to secure to authors and inventors owes its existence solely to the acts of Congress securing it, from which it follows that the rights granted by a patent or copyright are subject to such qualifications and limitations as Congress, in its unhampered consultation of the public interest, sees fit to impose.
(Pg. 316 of the original, 262 of the PDF)
So, according to that source, Congress has the power under the law to grant whatever rights it sees fit to grant, subject to the "limited times" test. There is other interesting discussion at that URL as well. My point being, you may not consider the rights of a creator "natural," but they are "legitimate" within the meaning of that word.
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Nit: they did sell a few copies of IE... Version 1.0 (largely the Spyglass code) was distributed in the Microsoft Plus! pack for Win 95, an software package that included themes, Internet connectivity, and either a pinball game or Freecell (I forget which), and which required a 486 or better to run. That allowed the core Win95 product to meet its box specs of running on a 386 with 4 MB RAM.
http://old.lwn.net/daily/esr-on-va.php3 Is that the ESR statement you were referring to? I post it here because it was a moderate bear to find with Google:)
Go to the USPTO homepage and search for "Published Applications" by publication number, dropping the "US" and just entering the 2006... number. They have separate search pages for Issued Patents and mere applications.
We've covered cameras, lenses, consumables, minilabs... but does anyone have any idea what they are going to do with the big processing lab in Maine? (See their Contact page at http://kmpi.konicaminolta.us/eprise/main/kmpi/cont ent/contact for info).
Check your own link... while I think the actual financial misreporting happened during the NAI days, NAI has since been split up and the successor company is, in fact, McAfee.
The summary is sadly incomplete. If you RTFA, the fraud in question was uncovered in December 2000 (when NAI missed their earnings), and this is merely the resolution of the resulting investigation. And at least part of the fine money could be distributed to investors.
While there should definately [sic] be effort put into making something simpler for new users to use, it should NOT ever be used as an excuse to remove functionality beneficial to those who have more experience.
I find it interesting that others on this board will use a nearly exact opposite of that argument in the form of "If you don't use it, it's bloat!"
I've been thinking about that lately. It occurs to me that, in terms of rearranging the world political landscape, WWI had far more of a lasting effect than WWII. The main difference between the map in 1936 and the map in 1946 was virtual: the Iron Curtain. OTOH, the difference between maps from 1910 and 1920, featuring the carved-up Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires (think: the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, Iraq, the entire Middle East), is really the shaping of today's world.
With everyone commenting about the art tools, I have to wonder what Adobe's plans are for ColdFusion. I know that the official line is "CF is selling very well, so they have no reason to dump it." I'm not sure if I put that much faith in Adobe's common sense.
Outlook Express isn't what the corps discussed in the article are looking for; the desired client is the combination mail / group calendaring / contact management / task list / journaling / templatable / Personal Information Management application that is MS Outlook or Lotus Notes.
The best way to think of it is to imagine a Leatherman for on-the-road field sales staff and their managers.
Save one: The Spectre. (Warning: PDF) Superman is merely a super man; the Spectre, at least in some versions, has been presented as the literal Wrath of God.
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Is he just referring to the graphics v. gameplay comparison he mentions in the final paragraph, or is he talking about something more? Does anyone have any clarification, or at least an idea, what he means by the "not competing" comment?
I can't get to TFA, but I think I can guess what the author might have been getting at when he refers to "educational software", and you're about a dozen years ahead of him. He's probably referring to home-computing educational software like "Jumpstart 2nd Grade" and the Leapfrog programs, intended for elementary school kids and younger.
Somehow, I think that new logo looks suspiciously like the one found here, or even here.
Cool! Where can I download the sources for PageRank, their database schema, and their search front end?
Seriously, while you make some good points regarding the viability of building an OSS Enterprise app suite, I see two pitfalls to this approach:
At this point, and IMHO, the only interesting thing that could be open-sourced out of OS/2 is the Workplace Shell, and to do that meaningfully they'd also have to open up the version of SOM (System Object Model) that it was written around.
.NET, but I don't see that happening) for it to actually be used for anything.
And then someone would probably have to adapt it to X (or
The rest of the O/S was great for what it was, but what it was, was designed in 1992.
I thought we were in favor of choice.
That's what he did: he hired them, told them to produce his app which would be open-sourced, they failed to do so, and he fired them. As others have alluded to, he hired a group or (presumably) talented coders, but found that they were unable or unmotivated to organize themselves into a project development team.
Personally, I find the more interesting portion of the story to be what happened next: he wanted to keep the open-development paradigm, only with more control over the outcome. So, he hired two separate teams to work on the code cathedral-style, but forced them to collaborate via open mailing lists and forums. Intriguing.
I thought e18 was going to be the engine for the sequel to Duke Nukem Forever!
Of course they do. "legitimate" is a synonym for "lawful." In the USA, Congress has exercised their preogative under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" According to Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States
Senate Document No. 108-17
2002 Edition: Cases Decided to June 28, 2002, found online at
(Pg. 316 of the original, 262 of the PDF)
So, according to that source, Congress has the power under the law to grant whatever rights it sees fit to grant, subject to the "limited times" test. There is other interesting discussion at that URL as well. My point being, you may not consider the rights of a creator "natural," but they are "legitimate" within the meaning of that word.
Nit: they did sell a few copies of IE... Version 1.0 (largely the Spyglass code) was distributed in the Microsoft Plus! pack for Win 95, an software package that included themes, Internet connectivity, and either a pinball game or Freecell (I forget which), and which required a 486 or better to run. That allowed the core Win95 product to meet its box specs of running on a 386 with 4 MB RAM.
http://old.lwn.net/daily/esr-on-va.php3 Is that the ESR statement you were referring to? I post it here because it was a moderate bear to find with Google :)
Go to the USPTO homepage and search for "Published Applications" by publication number, dropping the "US" and just entering the 2006... number. They have separate search pages for Issued Patents and mere applications.
We've covered cameras, lenses, consumables, minilabs... but does anyone have any idea what they are going to do with the big processing lab in Maine? (See their Contact page at http://kmpi.konicaminolta.us/eprise/main/kmpi/cont ent/contact for info).
Check your own link... while I think the actual financial misreporting happened during the NAI days, NAI has since been split up and the successor company is, in fact, McAfee.
The summary is sadly incomplete. If you RTFA, the fraud in question was uncovered in December 2000 (when NAI missed their earnings), and this is merely the resolution of the resulting investigation. And at least part of the fine money could be distributed to investors.
I find it interesting that others on this board will use a nearly exact opposite of that argument in the form of "If you don't use it, it's bloat!"
I've been thinking about that lately. It occurs to me that, in terms of rearranging the world political landscape, WWI had far more of a lasting effect than WWII. The main difference between the map in 1936 and the map in 1946 was virtual: the Iron Curtain. OTOH, the difference between maps from 1910 and 1920, featuring the carved-up Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires (think: the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, Iraq, the entire Middle East), is really the shaping of today's world.
They may not talk about it much, but it's still available.
Interestingly, they still have pages on SmartSuite for OS/2, but the "Buy now" link returns a 404.
With everyone commenting about the art tools, I have to wonder what Adobe's plans are for ColdFusion. I know that the official line is "CF is selling very well, so they have no reason to dump it." I'm not sure if I put that much faith in Adobe's common sense.
Outlook Express isn't what the corps discussed in the article are looking for; the desired client is the combination mail / group calendaring / contact management / task list / journaling / templatable / Personal Information Management application that is MS Outlook or Lotus Notes.
The best way to think of it is to imagine a Leatherman for on-the-road field sales staff and their managers.
Save one: The Spectre. (Warning: PDF) Superman is merely a super man; the Spectre, at least in some versions, has been presented as the literal Wrath of God.
An honest question: how exactly would one flash the BIOS before installing the CPU on the board? Do you need a separate EEPROM burner or something?
Cool! Recursive exit interviews!
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?