Contrast this interview with For The Love Of Open Source, which says that Open Source is perfectly rational in a capitalistic society. I think that is more convincing.
This is the next step after the stockmarket crash of Linux shares. System integrators will no longer be *Linux* system integrators. VA will concentrate on software, not specifically on Linux software.
On the upside, it might make people see Open Source as something not necessarily Linux, but as a serious way of developing software. Open Source is more then Linux.
Strange as it sounds, this vision of MS is just what is lacking Linux nowadays. Linux is based on some strong principles, but face it, the ideas behind *nix where formulated in the sixties and seventies and there is not a lot that has been added since. They where great, but we need to move on.
MS used to be a company copying ideas and having the better marketing, but over the years they have come to the point where they have some software that really can compete and now they seem to have even develope a sort of coherent vision. It is worrying. DotNet is not just a rip off of something that java has always been, it contains some real original ideas. This article is insightfull to. What if the people at MS finally have discovered a way to do new things?
Have you considered zope? It is perfect for storing a document tree, it has strong support for XML, including an extension for DocBook and supposedly it integrates with Apache. Gives you also lots of options to format the
XML as Html.
You'd probably not have the production facility in the middle of nowhere, but somewhere reasonable accessible, like in a city. They do have cellphone coverage in third world cities (partly because the wired ones don't work so well), so just pack your GSM next time you go to the third world.
The discussion seems to focus on mobile internet, while it seems to me that some kind of fixed wireless solution is more likely what they're talking about. 512 Mbs and line of sigh suggests that, I think. There's a company operating that here in Amsterdam since two years or something.
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Contrast this interview with For The Love Of Open Source, which says that Open Source is perfectly rational in a capitalistic society. I think that is more convincing.
This is the next step after the stockmarket crash of Linux shares. System integrators will no longer be *Linux* system integrators. VA will concentrate on software, not specifically on Linux software.
On the upside, it might make people see Open Source as something not necessarily Linux, but as a serious way of developing software. Open Source is more then Linux.
You won't find Win95 on new machines and the old ones are probably not fast enough to run the new games.
Strange as it sounds, this vision of MS is just what is lacking Linux nowadays. Linux is based on some strong principles, but face it, the ideas behind *nix where formulated in the sixties and seventies and there is not a lot that has been added since. They where great, but we need to move on.
MS used to be a company copying ideas and having the better marketing, but over the years they have come to the point where they have some software that really can compete and now they seem to have even develope a sort of coherent vision. It is worrying. DotNet is not just a rip off of something that java has always been, it contains some real original ideas. This article is insightfull to. What if the people at MS finally have discovered a way to do new things?
Have you considered zope? It is perfect for storing a document tree, it has strong support for XML, including an extension for DocBook and supposedly it integrates with Apache. Gives you also lots of options to format the
XML as Html.
You'd probably not have the production facility in the middle of nowhere, but somewhere reasonable accessible, like in a city. They do have cellphone coverage in third world cities (partly because the wired ones don't work so well), so just pack your GSM next time you go to the third world.
The discussion seems to focus on mobile internet, while it seems to me that some kind of fixed wireless solution is more likely what they're talking about. 512 Mbs and line of sigh suggests that, I think. There's a company operating that here in Amsterdam since two years or something.