for the record, my mom works for a large company you would all recognize and has been working hard keeping UCITA from passing at the state level for over two years.
the reason she has organized with other like-minded people & organizations is not out of the goodness of her employer's heart, but because passage of UCITA would cost them MILLIONS of dollars annually
they are especially concerned & incensed at the notion of a software provider being able to install "kill-switches" and essentially control them at their discretion. As you can imagine, large organizations that rely on software for the functioning of their business (that is, just about every company these days) are *extremely* reluctant to put that kind of control in the hands others
especially those found to be predatory monpolists!
check out the AFFECT site: http://www.4cite.org/index.html
ummm...this was done about 7 years ago
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I seem to recall that Caldera and TurboLinux have the same agreement with IBM.
IBM has been looking for Linux partners to support all of their hardware since they got into Linux, and Turbo and Caldera were the first to step up to the plate. Bear in mind also that AIX/5L is the outcome of the "Monterey Project" between IBM and SCO, which Caldera acquired.
I think this indicates that Red Hat and IBM are starting to work more closely together after IBM was unable to create a fragmented Linux vendor market, rather than one dominated by Red Hat (at least in the US).
Bob--
Given the way the tech market in general and the Linux market in particular have gone over the past year, Red Hat, as the brand leader, is clearly in the catbird seat.
In order to give Linux the credibility and reach it deserves, there need to be more end-user applications, and application software vendors want standards. Microsoft is a standard by its sheer dominance; Java is a standard by Sun's grace, but Linux has the opportunity to be a much more open standard.
What do you think of the current direction of the Linux Standards Base and where do you see Red Hat fitting in?
If you want to become a professional programmer, you're going to program for a considerable period of time.
Unless you really want to learn the details of computing and the subject itself jazzes you, just take a few CS courses, do an internship and study something else that *really* interests you...physics or history or philosophy or music
Spend your time in college well. There'll be time enough to code.
I've had great fun playing Original Adventure (aka Collasal Cave) and Zork on my Palm. In fact, I think these games are perfect for the Palm and have made several long flights pass quickly.
Playing Adventure on a VAX circa 1980 on a 150-baud acoustic coupler modem was my introduction to the fabulous world of computers.
I'd be willing to pay for these games, although I think the kind folks who created the run-time engine for interactive fiction games deserve a slice of the pie.
I'd also like to see Spy Hunter, but that's another story.
I work at Borland. In fact, I've been working on these very issues for the company.
The CLX libraries will be open-sourced (GPL) and made available with a free (little f) compiler for developing open-source (GPL) applications. The entire IDE will not be open-sourced, and commercial developers will be able to distribute applications under a commercial license.
Kylix will support both KDE and GNOME, and Borland intends to support both desktops as much as possible. After all, it's about choice, isn't it?
My impression from my (admittedly limited) study of Field Programmable Gate Array technology is that it enables reprogramming on the chip level itself. Since IANAG (I am not a geek), someone with a Ph.D. in EE might have deeper insights into this, but here are a couple of links:
http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/fpga/fpga.html
http://www.vcc.com/fpga.html
And, btw, this neuro-chip research has been going on for quite a while:
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/projects/neurochi p/neurochip_e.html
Red Hat is charging on the order of $2500 for a week-long course; $750 for the exam alone
i think they expact it to be a significant revenue source for them
oh, by the way, if you want your software to be "Red Hat Certified" you have to have a Red Hat Certified Engineer working with you
go open source!
The tunnels under the buildings at Columbia U (in NYC) were ripe grounds for "exploration" when I was there. Much of this ended when a certain individual (who shall remain nameless) was caught with the Uranium (!) he had pilfered from the physics building.
In order for Linux to be successful beyond its existing niche as a server platform, there has to be a way for organizations to migrate their existing applications and data, and continue to inter-operate with the large, mostly M$ installed base. This is why compatibility with M$ Office products are so critical for StarOffice and Applix. The prospect of Delphi for Linux (Kylix), and perhaps C++Builder for Linux is that it gives organizations one less excuse NOT to use Linux. Enabling that migration path is absolutely critical to increasing the use of Linux and establishing it as a viable long-term solution for businesses. Kernel hackers may consider it a point of pride to use vi, gdb, and make files, but a far larger group of developers wants their cozy IDE. This reminds me of how early fans of a band will desert it when it achieves success because they've "sold out."
Many folks have posted their surprise at Inprise-Borland being valued at $2.44B...in fact, if you read the press release closely (and check the companies individually), the value of the *combined* enterprise will be $2.44B
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All this media, immersed in information constantly, blah blah blah
The fact is, our media experiences are "mediated" by the needs of profit driven businesses that treat our attention span as a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. We are segmented and micro-target marketed to. If you don't like that all-pervasive, "hey, i'm soaking in it" feeling, then get off the bus and start taking control of how and why you consume and participate in the dis-intermediation of our lives.
Take a walk.
Have a conversation.
Whatever.
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for the record, my mom works for a large company you would all recognize and has been working hard keeping UCITA from passing at the state level for over two years.
the reason she has organized with other like-minded people & organizations is not out of the goodness of her employer's heart, but because passage of UCITA would cost them MILLIONS of dollars annually
they are especially concerned & incensed at the notion of a software provider being able to install "kill-switches" and essentially control them at their discretion. As you can imagine, large organizations that rely on software for the functioning of their business (that is, just about every company these days) are *extremely* reluctant to put that kind of control in the hands others
especially those found to be predatory monpolists!
check out the AFFECT site: http://www.4cite.org/index.html
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/publications/publ ications-e.html
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/
did they manage to duplicate the dimensional warping so it was big inside, too?
I seem to recall that Caldera and TurboLinux have the same agreement with IBM.
IBM has been looking for Linux partners to support all of their hardware since they got into Linux, and Turbo and Caldera were the first to step up to the plate. Bear in mind also that AIX/5L is the outcome of the "Monterey Project" between IBM and SCO, which Caldera acquired.
I think this indicates that Red Hat and IBM are starting to work more closely together after IBM was unable to create a fragmented Linux vendor market, rather than one dominated by Red Hat (at least in the US).
Bob-- Given the way the tech market in general and the Linux market in particular have gone over the past year, Red Hat, as the brand leader, is clearly in the catbird seat. In order to give Linux the credibility and reach it deserves, there need to be more end-user applications, and application software vendors want standards. Microsoft is a standard by its sheer dominance; Java is a standard by Sun's grace, but Linux has the opportunity to be a much more open standard. What do you think of the current direction of the Linux Standards Base and where do you see Red Hat fitting in?
If you want to become a professional programmer, you're going to program for a considerable period of time.
Unless you really want to learn the details of computing and the subject itself jazzes you, just take a few CS courses, do an internship and study something else that *really* interests you...physics or history or philosophy or music
Spend your time in college well. There'll be time enough to code.
I've had great fun playing Original Adventure (aka Collasal Cave) and Zork on my Palm. In fact, I think these games are perfect for the Palm and have made several long flights pass quickly. Playing Adventure on a VAX circa 1980 on a 150-baud acoustic coupler modem was my introduction to the fabulous world of computers. I'd be willing to pay for these games, although I think the kind folks who created the run-time engine for interactive fiction games deserve a slice of the pie. I'd also like to see Spy Hunter, but that's another story.
I work at Borland. In fact, I've been working on these very issues for the company. The CLX libraries will be open-sourced (GPL) and made available with a free (little f) compiler for developing open-source (GPL) applications. The entire IDE will not be open-sourced, and commercial developers will be able to distribute applications under a commercial license. Kylix will support both KDE and GNOME, and Borland intends to support both desktops as much as possible. After all, it's about choice, isn't it?
My impression from my (admittedly limited) study of Field Programmable Gate Array technology is that it enables reprogramming on the chip level itself. Since IANAG (I am not a geek), someone with a Ph.D. in EE might have deeper insights into this, but here are a couple of links: http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/fpga/fpga.html http://www.vcc.com/fpga.html And, btw, this neuro-chip research has been going on for quite a while: http://www.biochem.mpg.de/mnphys/projects/neurochi p/neurochip_e.html
Red Hat is charging on the order of $2500 for a week-long course; $750 for the exam alone i think they expact it to be a significant revenue source for them oh, by the way, if you want your software to be "Red Hat Certified" you have to have a Red Hat Certified Engineer working with you go open source!
The tunnels under the buildings at Columbia U (in NYC) were ripe grounds for "exploration" when I was there. Much of this ended when a certain individual (who shall remain nameless) was caught with the Uranium (!) he had pilfered from the physics building.
In order for Linux to be successful beyond its existing niche as a server platform, there has to be a way for organizations to migrate their existing applications and data, and continue to inter-operate with the large, mostly M$ installed base. This is why compatibility with M$ Office products are so critical for StarOffice and Applix. The prospect of Delphi for Linux (Kylix), and perhaps C++Builder for Linux is that it gives organizations one less excuse NOT to use Linux. Enabling that migration path is absolutely critical to increasing the use of Linux and establishing it as a viable long-term solution for businesses. Kernel hackers may consider it a point of pride to use vi, gdb, and make files, but a far larger group of developers wants their cozy IDE. This reminds me of how early fans of a band will desert it when it achieves success because they've "sold out."
Many folks have posted their surprise at Inprise-Borland being valued at $2.44B...in fact, if you read the press release closely (and check the companies individually), the value of the *combined* enterprise will be $2.44B
All this media, immersed in information constantly, blah blah blah The fact is, our media experiences are "mediated" by the needs of profit driven businesses that treat our attention span as a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. We are segmented and micro-target marketed to. If you don't like that all-pervasive, "hey, i'm soaking in it" feeling, then get off the bus and start taking control of how and why you consume and participate in the dis-intermediation of our lives. Take a walk. Have a conversation. Whatever.