There are some legitimate concerns with open source, like the skillsets of the people you already have in house, making it work with other applications you are dependent upon, and what the support methodology looks like.
I think the general climate of/. is usually that there are zero disadvantages to open source, that it's advantageous in every way, and if your firm does not find this it's because your firm is peopled by idiots.
Of course Microsoft cannot be trusted to present a fair comparison between the two. But there are kernels of truth here and there.
Lacking any method of time travel, this isn't an option for many people who thought they could innocently use Facebook Mobile by using their normal login information without their telephone number being displayed publicly or passed on to advertisers.
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Ah, yes, House:
(misc characters in a room)
(some overwrought or cheesily-wrought tension)
(House makes demeaning and/or dismissive comment)
(Patient suddenly coughs up something)
(Dalekian medical devices go nuts, shooting paper and light and sound)
(everyone panics)
Commercial break!
I think this is deplorable too, but:
Isn't it really just a matter of (very little) time until ebay and many other websites are flooded with the new tool available for purchase?
I mean, I don't think Apple can invent a geometric figure for a screwdriver point that no one else can manufacture.
Unfunny truthy note: It's an indian word meaning "boiling water"
Boy, there are 4-5 instances of pure troll isolate in the summary. Sad.
But how will people access that completely useless and tremendously jumbled index page-o-5,000,000 links?
There are some legitimate concerns with open source, like the skillsets of the people you already have in house, making it work with other applications you are dependent upon, and what the support methodology looks like.
/. is usually that there are zero disadvantages to open source, that it's advantageous in every way, and if your firm does not find this it's because your firm is peopled by idiots.
I think the general climate of
Of course Microsoft cannot be trusted to present a fair comparison between the two. But there are kernels of truth here and there.
Yes we [could've]!
[No] we [didn't]!
As a side note, who designed the horrible buttons on the cellphone in the picture? It looks like an alarm clock out of the 1970s or something.
Welcome to last year, /.
Never has been to the facingbook?
Jump in it!
Lacking any method of time travel, this isn't an option for many people who thought they could innocently use Facebook Mobile by using their normal login information without their telephone number being displayed publicly or passed on to advertisers.
One thing that might be helpful is simply to remove your phone number from your FB account, like I did.
What do you mean by "white-walled"?
THIS IS BERN!!!!
What's the upside here?
Some people get caught not paying taxes. The government just flushes money 5 million different ways every day.
If you ask me, this is as close to a victimless crime as it gets.
They'd just waste the money on more ethanol subsidies, because of course Iowa is the first caucus.
Little does Sony know that SCO has now found they infringe on no fewer than 238 of their patents!
And something about transparency.
Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.
In 2010, business strategy dictates you!
Ballmer mailed them a picture of a chair flying at their photoshopped heads, and they threw up a white flag immediately.
Exactly. Microsoft is positioning itself as a low-rent copy of Apple in the phone space. Say what you will, but it is a strategy.
Who wants to bet it was intentional that this poison pill was put into the package that includes copy and paste?
Or even that copy and paste was held back for this reason?
I for one welcome our new Chindoan overlords
Oh ho! Let's see them fake a moon landing in HD this time! /tinfoil