Microsoft tries to say that OS business models
cannot support research:
In contrast, two decades of experience have shown that an economic model that protects intellectual property and a business model that recoups research and development costs have shown repeatedly that they can create impressive economic benefits and distribute them very broadly.
Well the jury may be out on OS business models,
but Red Hat is supporting quite a bit of research
and development. And they are expected to turn
a profit by the end of the year. Not bad for a
relatively young company.
So the business model for supporting research may be different under OSS, but that doesn't mean it
won't work.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
Yet during the last year, the U.S. economy has hit what could be regarded as its most substantial speed bump of the past two decades. Illustrated most starkly by the declining valuation of the NASDAQ, we?ve witnessed a notable decline in consumer confidence that has people wondering whether we?re at a brief respite or whether we?ve reached the end of an economic era.
This guy can't even get recent economic history correct. There were true recessions under both
Presidents Reagan and Bush the elder. They both
happened in the past 20 years. The juries still
out on the current economic situation. Its hit
tech stock hard, but it hasn't spread into a true
recession yet. In fact, current signs make seem
to hint that the economy is going to level off
without ever hitting a recession.
Of course, calling these economic problems a recession is in Microsoft interests. It makes
it much easier for Microsoft to explain their
stock's poor performance.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
You forgot to mention the Global File System (GFS). Not only is it a journalling
file system, but it also allows speedy access to
network drives. Its NFS on 'roids.
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There are plenty of strong union sectors in the US
still. The auto industry is doing fine. Teachers,
government employees, and professional athletics
are all strong labor industries. Its not likely
to happen in the IT industry, but that's because
we're elitist snobs.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
You may be able to install SBS on another distribution that supports RPM, but folks running Debian or Slackware are probably out of luck.
Hasn't this guy heard of alien? Using alien, rpms
can be turned into debs and tar.gzs. You may have
have to mess around a little to find the correct
libraries to meet the dependacies for IBM's Small
Business Suite, but I'd be very surprised if you
can't get it to work with Debian.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
Anyone whose been here knows that there is no way these articles only got 3 or 4 comments. Obviously the comments have been lost, or the article disappeared before more people could post.
Hey, Einstein those are article from the various
sections (Science, etc.) that didn't appear on the
main page. That's a feature, not a bug. Articles
that might not be important enough to put on the
main page, but might be interesting to some people
just go to the Sections. The articles aren't lost, you just have to look harder to find them.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
Re:end of pay phones?!?
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Paper Phones
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Two, the pay phone may have questionable cleanliness. How many times have you talked on a pay phone with a tissue in your hand and the phone away from your ear?
Niles? Niles? Is that you?
Seriously, I didn't know that there were people
who actually did thing like wipe off phones before
they use them. It must be a pain feeling compelled to do
things like that. What do you expect would be on the end of the phone? Its not like you actually put the phone in your mouth (I hope).
There was a lot of coverage of
Sealand on Slashdot
last summer. There was an article when Sealand's data haven
opened and somebody from Sealand did a
Slashdot interview later.
I was wondering the same about Friends and Frasier.
Well, Frasier isn't on Thursdays anymore, so
there's a lot of shows between them. NBC,
in their infinite wisdom, replaced it with
Will and Grace, another one of their
shows (like Third Rock from the Sun)
that for some unknown reason many critics like,
but which makes me want to carve my face off
with a razor.
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Re:Survivor lead-in more important
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C.S.I.
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Suposedly a fire had driven wildlife to the camp. That I'll buy. But did you see the fricking pig? It was a demesticated american pig. The thing wasn't even fully grown, just a piglet. Say, whatever hapened to "Babe". The sequal must not have done too well. My point is, NOONE could have watched that episode and still held the belief that anything that happens there is real.
OK, maybe some people have never seen a wild boar.
Well, I have never been to Australia, but I do
know that there weren't many (any?) mammals
there till the British arrived. So any "wild"
pigs there would be pigs whose ancestors escaped
some time in the past (like dingos in Australia
and broncos in the Americas). So the fact that the pig
looked domestic is not too surprising.
There is nothing "mutually assured" about the
destruction. When a particle and its anti-particle collide they do annihilate
each other and release energy. But there is no
guarantee that a particular anti-particle will
ever be annihilated.
You have violated Linus's trademark of "Linux",
you fiend. For that I am going to have to confiscate your shoes. I hope that they're
(American) size 12.
The identical link is in the text that was submitted with this article (its behind the here
at the end). The submitter followed the usual
(though possibly misguided) Slashdot form of
including separate links to the main page of
a news site and to the article itself. Unfortunately, they spreads the links quite
far apart.
Of course they are opposed to this. Would you be happy if something you owned could be freely distributed without
your permission?
Read the article! It wouldn't be freely distributed, it would be distributed with royalties set by the government. So, its
simple govenment regulation, not theft.
Slashdot Mirror
Yahoo news has an interesting take on this. Its a pretty well-informed rebuttal of Microsoft's FUD.
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Well the jury may be out on OS business models, but Red Hat is supporting quite a bit of research and development. And they are expected to turn a profit by the end of the year. Not bad for a relatively young company.
So the business model for supporting research may be different under OSS, but that doesn't mean it won't work.
...
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
This guy can't even get recent economic history correct. There were true recessions under both Presidents Reagan and Bush the elder. They both happened in the past 20 years. The juries still out on the current economic situation. Its hit tech stock hard, but it hasn't spread into a true recession yet. In fact, current signs make seem to hint that the economy is going to level off without ever hitting a recession.
Of course, calling these economic problems a recession is in Microsoft interests. It makes it much easier for Microsoft to explain their stock's poor performance.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
You forgot to mention the Global File System (GFS). Not only is it a journalling file system, but it also allows speedy access to network drives. Its NFS on 'roids.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
There are plenty of strong union sectors in the US still. The auto industry is doing fine. Teachers, government employees, and professional athletics are all strong labor industries. Its not likely to happen in the IT industry, but that's because we're elitist snobs.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
Hasn't this guy heard of alien? Using alien, rpms can be turned into debs and tar.gzs. You may have have to mess around a little to find the correct libraries to meet the dependacies for IBM's Small Business Suite, but I'd be very surprised if you can't get it to work with Debian.
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QWest is not the only DSL ISP in most places it services. You're stuck with them for the actual line, but there are plenty of choices for ISPs.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
Hey, Einstein those are article from the various sections (Science, etc.) that didn't appear on the main page. That's a feature, not a bug. Articles that might not be important enough to put on the main page, but might be interesting to some people just go to the Sections. The articles aren't lost, you just have to look harder to find them.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
Seriously, I didn't know that there were people who actually did thing like wipe off phones before they use them. It must be a pain feeling compelled to do things like that. What do you expect would be on the end of the phone? Its not like you actually put the phone in your mouth (I hope).
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There was a lot of coverage of Sealand on Slashdot last summer. There was an article when Sealand's data haven opened and somebody from Sealand did a Slashdot interview later.
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Well, I have never been to Australia, but I do know that there weren't many (any?) mammals there till the British arrived. So any "wild" pigs there would be pigs whose ancestors escaped some time in the past (like dingos in Australia and broncos in the Americas). So the fact that the pig looked domestic is not too surprising.
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There is nothing "mutually assured" about the destruction. When a particle and its anti-particle collide they do annihilate each other and release energy. But there is no guarantee that a particular anti-particle will ever be annihilated.
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You have violated Linus's trademark of "Linux", you fiend. For that I am going to have to confiscate your shoes. I hope that they're (American) size 12.
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The identical link is in the text that was submitted with this article (its behind the here at the end). The submitter followed the usual (though possibly misguided) Slashdot form of including separate links to the main page of a news site and to the article itself. Unfortunately, they spreads the links quite far apart.
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Read the article! It wouldn't be freely distributed, it would be distributed with royalties set by the government. So, its simple govenment regulation, not theft.
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This is one quality troll. The echo of that Microsoft buffoon is brilliant. Well done.
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Yes, you are wrong.
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Its out there.
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Heck, pictures don't even show up with a recent mozilla build. I'm certainly going to pay for that kind of quality.
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is much quicker to type, than using the mouse to:
Edit|Search and Replace
Search "stupidity", Replace "intelligence"
And the syntax highlighting in vim is much cooler than anything I've seen in a GUI editor.
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."
Its not really a hacker thing, more of an old internet (or perhaps usenet thing).
HTH. HAND. (Hope that helps. Have a nice day.)
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."
Depleted uranium != spent fuel, thanks for playing.
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."
Well, Mustaine was with Metallica in 1982 and 1983. And he has song writing credits on songs on both Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning.
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."
Certainly all of the Universities aren't private, but the Universities with hospital very well might be. But, like you, I'm too lazy to check ;).
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."