Its also worth noting that it took 10 years for RedHat to establish themselves as a top-tier enterprise vendor. So even if Canonical isn't doing much significant now, IMO they are preparing the groundwork for a real revenue stream and probably an IPO.
(While RH sold boxed distros for the longest time, it was more to build name recognition. They never really made money until they switched to the subscription model.)
The van had already been discovered when Reiser was pulled over. He went on his Sierra mountain roadtrip several days later.
A more reasonable conclusion might be that he initially hid the body within the area using the van and then later moved the body to the countryside using the CRX.
Which slashdot have you been reading? My impression is the slash-kids think Linus is god, and anyone who argues with him must a raving loon. My impression is that people here aren't aware of that because they don't follow the mailing list. And yes Linus is only mellow for mainstream press interviews.
I shouldn't have to explain any of them. According to the constitution, you don't. Reiser voluntarily chose to explain them.
Hopefully you're just playing devil's advocate because your entire line of argument is really stupid, like Reiser. If you got in an argument with your friend, he disappears, and his blood is in your truck, anyone half-intelligent would realize they're fucked and lawyer up. Only a moron would get up there and dazzle the jury with the "entirely possible" defense.
When I served jury duty, I had a similar experience. The jury was about 75% white professionals. (While the defendant was a poor black guy.) However we did have a couple little old ladies, and they were definitely the worst members of the jury, so I can see where the stereotype comes from.
Something I've never understood is why so many people I know try to get out of jury duty. It seems like something that would be fascinating to do. I've heard that if you seem too eager to be on the jury, they don't want you. You're probably one of those CSI/Perry Mason know-it-alls who is not as smart as you think you are. Or you're someone with a chip on their shoulder. 'Normal' people hate jury duty.
Also note that this was a very long trial, and would be financially impossible for almost everyone other than governmental employees.
Yeah, Reiser was involved in so many flamewars it's just weird that he has/had such a following among the munchkins on Slashdot. He even once accused Linus of being part of some RedHat-masterminded conspiracy against him.
Anyway he never struck me as a "typical linux programmer" as posters here are trying to portray him. He certainly didn't play well with the other alpha-geeks.
You've likely never slept in a car, then. I have, plenty of times. And I'd much rather sleep in the passenger seat than remove it and sleep on a hard bumpy floorboard with rails and bolts sticking out of it. Making this explanation even more ridiculous, the car was a Honda CRX which is a tiny tiny subcompact.
As an "eccentric geek" I don't think you realize that normal people don't want to sit around and argue hypotheticals about about Jack-in-the-Box, linux car computers, and playing with swords. Reiser had the chance to explain away the circumstantial evidence, and the jury's duty is to decide whether it is or isn't convincing. It is not the jury's duty to invent some alternate explanation.
My experience on a jury indicates that it's social/political process. If you went off your weird geeky hobby rant, eyes would be rolling hard and I imagine you would be isolated pretty quickly.
The appeal of pinball (for me at least) is that there is no BS, well at least you can't claim BS. When I was a kid, we would still call BS on sticky buttons or "hidden magnets". (Speaking of which, are there hidden magnets?)
Funny thing is that almost all of the current Windows 7 hype is about the management culture and development process rather than the actual product. ("modular" and so on, I mean who cares)
Really? Then why did the International Business Machines PC become the de-facto standard for personal computers, as opposed to more consumer-friendly machines, such as the Apple II or the Commodore64 or the more hacker-friendly slew of Z80 systems? The original IBM PC was infamous for its horrible graphics, but it became popular because it was marketed to business professionals. He's right that PCs weren't originally "IT approved", but it wasn't just hackers/engineers who brought PCs into businesses, it was also finance guys and accountants and so on. Think the "I'm a PC" guy from the Apple commercials and you have your typical early PC evangelist.
The longer I spend in actual IT the more I see that GPL isn't just savings on licenses (which is great) but savings on figuring *out* the licenses and time spend negoating them etc.
Note that shopping with RedHat doesn't really save you any money there.
Also the scale we're talking about here includes $2000 plane tickets, $5000 cubicles, $800 telephones, $500 office chairs, and so on. Going after the Microsoft licensing is just about on the same level of counting out paperclips to cut costs given all the huge inefficiencies in most businesses.
And that system actually protects true engineers because nobody's going to sign off on a project where management artificially collapsed the project and cut the labor budget by 50%
If management had to agree to engineering's "terms", you can bet that software would be a whole lot better (and more expensive).
Do consulting work. You will always be doing something "new", and they're paying for your skills, not because you know where the bodies are buried. Plus, you're on the clock so there will be slack times when you don't have to worry about 9-5ing it.
We'll see affordable highspeed wireless within a few years, I'm sure of it. While it won't provide the "100 channels nothings on" experience, combined with internet-based PPV services it will be a perfectly good supplement to normal terrestrial DTV (which has tons of unused channel space).
I'm pretty sure Verizon and AT&T will have "4G" wireless to my house long before a fiber ever shows up anyway.
I tend to agree with the idea of municipalization of the cable networks, but you're living in la-la land I think.
First of all the cable plant isn't as profitable as you think. Old AT&T (the real one) got into cable and almost went bankrupt. Everyone home in America has seen a succession of different cable companies and service branding every few years as they try to find a new bunch of suckers who can service the bonds. Comcast could sell out tomorrow, who knows.
Second, the reason the cable companies got very favorable deals is that television is a luxury service. Chicago was almost bankrupt in the 1970s/80s, and you expected them to take on massive bond debt to built out a TV network? Foolish. Unfortunately the advent of the internet meant that they were able to backdoor their way into being critical national infrastructure, but nobody could have foreseen that when they were building out.
Finally all of this wire to the curb business is so 20th century. Read the news about the spectrum auctions on your iPhone. Wireless infrastructure is so much cheaper to build out and ultimately will be a lot more effective than sitting around and whining about a natural monopoly. If Comcast tried to dump the ownership their cable plant on my town, I'd figure they saw writing on the wall and I'd vote against it.
Let's be more explicit -- in the 1970s the industry was based around renting computer time or CPU cycles. Industry donated computers to places like MIT so that programmers like RMS could gin up software that would create more demand for CPU cycles. The software was free, but the ability to run it wasn't unless you were one of the blessed few.
This business model never really translated well onto the micro/mini space where the CPU itself was sold rather than leased. Now the software was the value and the computer was the commodity. It's not a coincidence that vendors like DEC/Sun/IBM closed up their source as soon as computers started fitting onto a desk. RMS freaked when his colleagues walked out join a workstation company.
And to some extent this holds true to this day. OSS hasn't been very successful in the "Buy it Take It Home" space of PCs while it rules the roost in the "software as service" market (ISPs, mainframes, compute clusters, etc). Even Firefox mainly survives by "renting computer time" on Google servers by forwarding search requests.
So I'm not sure if a "end user summit" will help that much. What needs to happen is for someone to develop an open source business model that's successful on the desktop. Then the dominos will fall into place.
IIUC, "exclusive franchises" for cable are illegal.
But the capital costs for the physical buildout are enormous and have historically led to a lot of bankrupt cable companies even with an effective local monopoly. Which is why Verizon/AT&T are limiting their fiber rollouts to very specific neighborhoods.
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Its also worth noting that it took 10 years for RedHat to establish themselves as a top-tier enterprise vendor. So even if Canonical isn't doing much significant now, IMO they are preparing the groundwork for a real revenue stream and probably an IPO.
(While RH sold boxed distros for the longest time, it was more to build name recognition. They never really made money until they switched to the subscription model.)
Dell doesn't really care about how open or how non-crappy they are.
What they want is Linux-supported hardware and the easiest way to get that is usually submitting a GPL driver to the kernel developers.
That's because the timeline doesn't fit. The wife was known to be missing many days before Reiser removed the seat.
The van had already been discovered when Reiser was pulled over. He went on his Sierra mountain roadtrip several days later.
A more reasonable conclusion might be that he initially hid the body within the area using the van and then later moved the body to the countryside using the CRX.
Hopefully you're just playing devil's advocate because your entire line of argument is really stupid, like Reiser. If you got in an argument with your friend, he disappears, and his blood is in your truck, anyone half-intelligent would realize they're fucked and lawyer up. Only a moron would get up there and dazzle the jury with the "entirely possible" defense.
When I served jury duty, I had a similar experience. The jury was about 75% white professionals. (While the defendant was a poor black guy.) However we did have a couple little old ladies, and they were definitely the worst members of the jury, so I can see where the stereotype comes from.
Also note that this was a very long trial, and would be financially impossible for almost everyone other than governmental employees.
Yeah, Reiser was involved in so many flamewars it's just weird that he has/had such a following among the munchkins on Slashdot. He even once accused Linus of being part of some RedHat-masterminded conspiracy against him.
Anyway he never struck me as a "typical linux programmer" as posters here are trying to portray him. He certainly didn't play well with the other alpha-geeks.
As an "eccentric geek" I don't think you realize that normal people don't want to sit around and argue hypotheticals about about Jack-in-the-Box, linux car computers, and playing with swords. Reiser had the chance to explain away the circumstantial evidence, and the jury's duty is to decide whether it is or isn't convincing. It is not the jury's duty to invent some alternate explanation.
My experience on a jury indicates that it's social/political process. If you went off your weird geeky hobby rant, eyes would be rolling hard and I imagine you would be isolated pretty quickly.
?? NT4 for RISC chips was 32-bit only, and you will not find a statement from Bill Gates or Microsoft that says otherwise.
(64-bit NT5 for Alpha was announced at some point, but after the compaq takeover it was canned in favor of XP64 for Itanium.)
Funny thing is that almost all of the current Windows 7 hype is about the management culture and development process rather than the actual product. ("modular" and so on, I mean who cares)
Note that shopping with RedHat doesn't really save you any money there.
Also the scale we're talking about here includes $2000 plane tickets, $5000 cubicles, $800 telephones, $500 office chairs, and so on. Going after the Microsoft licensing is just about on the same level of counting out paperclips to cut costs given all the huge inefficiencies in most businesses.
> First off, Microsoft will not allow ASUS to put open source applications on Windows preloads.
If you're not full of shit, report it to the justice department because that is a blatant violation of the consent decree.
But unfortunately for you, you are full of shit.
Contract/permatemp work generally pays a 50% premium over salary, so who cares about 6%. Its not a good choice if you can't manage your money though.
And that system actually protects true engineers because nobody's going to sign off on a project where management artificially collapsed the project and cut the labor budget by 50%
If management had to agree to engineering's "terms", you can bet that software would be a whole lot better (and more expensive).
Do consulting work. You will always be doing something "new", and they're paying for your skills, not because you know where the bodies are buried. Plus, you're on the clock so there will be slack times when you don't have to worry about 9-5ing it.
Maybe you work for the last american business that offers a pension plan or something, but if I were you, I wouldn't count on that either.
The biggest reason to be an employee rather than a permatemp is usually medical insurance.
We'll see affordable highspeed wireless within a few years, I'm sure of it. While it won't provide the "100 channels nothings on" experience, combined with internet-based PPV services it will be a perfectly good supplement to normal terrestrial DTV (which has tons of unused channel space).
I'm pretty sure Verizon and AT&T will have "4G" wireless to my house long before a fiber ever shows up anyway.
I tend to agree with the idea of municipalization of the cable networks, but you're living in la-la land I think.
First of all the cable plant isn't as profitable as you think. Old AT&T (the real one) got into cable and almost went bankrupt. Everyone home in America has seen a succession of different cable companies and service branding every few years as they try to find a new bunch of suckers who can service the bonds. Comcast could sell out tomorrow, who knows.
Second, the reason the cable companies got very favorable deals is that television is a luxury service. Chicago was almost bankrupt in the 1970s/80s, and you expected them to take on massive bond debt to built out a TV network? Foolish. Unfortunately the advent of the internet meant that they were able to backdoor their way into being critical national infrastructure, but nobody could have foreseen that when they were building out.
Finally all of this wire to the curb business is so 20th century. Read the news about the spectrum auctions on your iPhone. Wireless infrastructure is so much cheaper to build out and ultimately will be a lot more effective than sitting around and whining about a natural monopoly. If Comcast tried to dump the ownership their cable plant on my town, I'd figure they saw writing on the wall and I'd vote against it.
Let's be more explicit -- in the 1970s the industry was based around renting computer time or CPU cycles. Industry donated computers to places like MIT so that programmers like RMS could gin up software that would create more demand for CPU cycles. The software was free, but the ability to run it wasn't unless you were one of the blessed few.
This business model never really translated well onto the micro/mini space where the CPU itself was sold rather than leased. Now the software was the value and the computer was the commodity. It's not a coincidence that vendors like DEC/Sun/IBM closed up their source as soon as computers started fitting onto a desk. RMS freaked when his colleagues walked out join a workstation company.
And to some extent this holds true to this day. OSS hasn't been very successful in the "Buy it Take It Home" space of PCs while it rules the roost in the "software as service" market (ISPs, mainframes, compute clusters, etc). Even Firefox mainly survives by "renting computer time" on Google servers by forwarding search requests.
So I'm not sure if a "end user summit" will help that much. What needs to happen is for someone to develop an open source business model that's successful on the desktop. Then the dominos will fall into place.
IIUC, "exclusive franchises" for cable are illegal.
But the capital costs for the physical buildout are enormous and have historically led to a lot of bankrupt cable companies even with an effective local monopoly. Which is why Verizon/AT&T are limiting their fiber rollouts to very specific neighborhoods.