Re:What about MySQL?
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Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev.
Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice (though one that had a major corp backing). I expect these IDE's to converge in one way or other to a single winner, and some small hang-on-tight communities fervor's for their champ remaining intact.
As for MySQL, the Oracle benefactors will say: do not worry, my dear people, we will keep it with true love, and gradually let it become deprecatingly obsolete.
I'd pay $200 for a bible game that included Ezekiel 23:19-20, with all the members and their emissions. $200 dollars would be a good price for encouraging a game developer to fight fire with fire. They should even market it as a good bible teaching aid.
I'm sure ALL the tax revenue will go towards educating kids on the dangers of violent video games and/or to the victims or violent video game inspired violence, right?
No, sir, you see, it's on my contract here. The money comes to me.
Once you have sufficient users locked in to the service, using a competitor becomes pointless because everyone you want to talk to is only contactable using skype, at which point they can screw up however they want.
Network effects are powerful, but ask these guys or even these guys if that's a sure guarantee of "screwing up however they want".
Well, if Skype is going back to the founders, I guess that's good. eBay never did anything really interesting with it anyways. I don't understand why skype let other social networking sites (yes, that's what skype is, and it fosters an even closer-knit community than facebook or others ever will, as people actually _talk_ to others, as opposed to poking them.
What I would like to see would be a tight integration of skype, facebook, and google contacts. In android phones or in the iPhone our contacts info is all here and there, scattered all around. I'd love to see a contact, then immediately know through facebook what they're up to, then either call, email, or skype, if human contact is desirable or unavoidable. In any case, skype has been held back for years and years, and I hope that it will eventually bring down the phone companies to being what they truly are: dumb pipes providing internet access.
Here in Brazil there's all this hoopla from the Federal government concerning FOSS. At first I thought it was hypeware, but after seeing intalations of linux and firefox in random government spots, it seems real enough for me.
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Netbeans is much faster and elegant than JDev. Netbeans is much like another Eclipse, maybe better...
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures. Try to build a new browser or new *nix kernel and see how many people you project gets. Try to compete with Apache. Try to build a new OpenOffice (though one that had a major corp backing). I expect these IDE's to converge in one way or other to a single winner, and some small hang-on-tight communities fervor's for their champ remaining intact.
As for MySQL, the Oracle benefactors will say: do not worry, my dear people, we will keep it with true love, and gradually let it become deprecatingly obsolete.
stupid question warning: why would dell / hp be happy or sad? Me cannot see.
who modded that funny? it's insightful, & not funny!
I'd pay $200 for a bible game that included Ezekiel 23:19-20, with all the members and their emissions. $200 dollars would be a good price for encouraging a game developer to fight fire with fire. They should even market it as a good bible teaching aid.
MEMO to game makers: PLEASE make a game with the most kick-ass moments from the bible and market it as a christian thing.
Good point. Here's more: What about the GORE AND BLOOD on the fucking Bible?
I'm sure ALL the tax revenue will go towards educating kids on the dangers of violent video games and/or to the victims or violent video game inspired violence, right?
No, sir, you see, it's on my contract here. The money comes to me.
Yours Truly,
--Dr. A. Linhares, Senior Vice President, AIG.
That's a pity. I loved their child porn section.
Uhm...do you have the contact information for the Ministry of Fairness, Niceness, and Free Ponies at Taxpayer Expense? I would like a free pony.
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, free ponies and free monies are only available to those that control The House, The Senate, and The Executive. Which means of course Goldman Sachs. Thank you for your interest.
Once you have sufficient users locked in to the service, using a competitor becomes pointless because everyone you want to talk to is only contactable using skype, at which point they can screw up however they want.
Network effects are powerful, but ask these guys or even these guys if that's a sure guarantee of "screwing up however they want".
Why the hell did you post that as AC? What you say is entirely true.
I didn't.
Skype would be worse than the phone companies, because it is controlled centrally by a single organization...
OMG Skype==evil!!!
As if any one of their competitors couldn't gain ground whenever they screw up royally.
Google talk is much more dangerous to your monopoly paranoias than Skype.
Your karma must be improving, grasshopper.
What I would like to see would be a tight integration of skype, facebook, and google contacts. In android phones or in the iPhone our contacts info is all here and there, scattered all around. I'd love to see a contact, then immediately know through facebook what they're up to, then either call, email, or skype, if human contact is desirable or unavoidable. In any case, skype has been held back for years and years, and I hope that it will eventually bring down the phone companies to being what they truly are: dumb pipes providing internet access.
Here in Brazil there's all this hoopla from the Federal government concerning FOSS. At first I thought it was hypeware, but after seeing intalations of linux and firefox in random government spots, it seems real enough for me.
In Hungary, Steve Ballmer usually gets eggs.
What a stupid idea. --Tyler Durden
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David here
interesting..., you know, interesting.
And no, for the record, both iPhone and Android (and even less Symbian) are not truly open as by the definition above.
What do you mean the iPhone is open (in any aspect)?
OPENMOKO
Google PageRank: 7
Google BackLinks: 526
Live Search BackLinks: 6
Technorati Links: 1,230
Compare that to http://code.google.com/android
Google PageRank: 8
Google BackLinks: 1,880
Live Search BackLinks: 164
Technorati Links: 7,980
And... the google site has been replaced by http://developer.android.com/, which will soon capture the original's statistics, and then some.
It may not be dead, but it faces a huge battle against Google and others. And this is not literature.
easy. 1/0=log(-1)
yeah, I know. But my links was from Berkeley. Stanford mods.