There simply is no way Microsoft can expose its proprietary code to the inspections open source benefits from. The result is horribly broken, insecure and crash-prone Microsoft code vs. a base of increasingly stable open source.
I see two edges to the sword: FLOSS becomes both more secure / stable and more capable over time. The combination is what will one day destroy Microsoft as we know them.
Re:GeForce 4mx is an abomination
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nVidia's marketing department should be ashamed; the name of this piece of hardware is blatantly misleading. Every other "mx" version of their cards contained the same featureset of it's GeForceX line, but had slower/less memory.
The GeForce4mx, on the other hand, is missing the priciple feature of the GeForce3, that being hardware vertex and pixel shader support. The GeForce4mx is basically a really fast GeForce2. It's a sham.
And some of us remember (and still resent) Intel for differentiating bus width with 386dx vs. 386sx, then using 486sx to mean a 486dx without the numeric coprocessor.... (Or am I just getting old?)
They need to realise they do not have the right to do that! I can curse you to your face if I want to, and if I'm a beggar on the street and you're Bill Clinton you still can't touch me, once I don't threaten you.
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Was the bug introduced while studying the site? :P
I see two edges to the sword: FLOSS becomes both more secure / stable and more capable over time. The combination is what will one day destroy Microsoft as we know them.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/aug02/08- 05settlementmilestones.asp
(until they move it...)
And some of us remember (and still resent) Intel for differentiating bus width with 386dx vs. 386sx, then using 486sx to mean a 486dx without the numeric coprocessor.... (Or am I just getting old?)