It's not just about cya, it is about "he doesn't trust his boss".
Downloading and evaluating uncertified open source requires the ability to evaluate it, and the authorization to evaluate it. And it requires the ability to convince your superviser that you evaluation was correct.
Government is a big fat exercise in mistrust. Blance of power, oversight, transparency, and all the other inefficiency is about not trusting someone with money and power.
I applaud the certification of Red Hat, the process of certification, and I am very happy that vendors do need to get certified.
I agree that government will increasing adopt open source because there are certified versions.
MA is considering a law to make spam illegal and enable a private action against spammers. Thw current proposal sets damages at a min of hundreds.
I think a private action is ideal, because then the number of people willing to angry and sue a spammer also has to be a very small percentage to make this a money-losing game.
Of course, if we go through a time where spam can cause a couple of companies to accept large losses from private actions then there will be a stronger incentive for the destruction of anonymous electronic sppech. Because with anonymity you can "frame" a company for spammage. Of course, intelligent relays are a better idea but the prohibition on anonymity will have many more advocates. (I btw am not one, meaning I strongly suport anonymous speech.)
I do think that Sony now has an interest in not further enriching M$, given that M$ uses its monopoly income to support expanding into Sony's entertainment and games businesses.
Yet I am happy about the three points above: 1. it is free Hooray! Someone noticed that price != value
2. it is an adequate substitute again, why not dance? It may not be great but SOffice and OOffice mean OSS has matured to be equivalent at the apps level. How long ago did you hear, "OK so there is a GUI but there will never be an office"?
3. there is very widespread OSS awareness in the market.
Don't the routers crash from a list of prohibited sites _that_ large? If not, what is the size of a prohibited or redirtect list your standard cisco router could handle?
Of course Americans are hypcrites. We either accept our limits or proclaim greatest and try to live up to it.
Now I admit most corn-fed, SUV-driving, tv-numbed Americans don't really act. And the fact that we are powerful, we could control our government, makes that terrible. Of course, if you were femal in terms of freedom the Communist takeover was a wonder, and your freedoms expanded in a manner way that could have taken capitalism centuries ot manage.
Yet the US does not treat its own citizens with the same contempt for life, limb, and religious freedom as the Chinese gov't treats its people. It is true the US treats some _other_ countries that way, but it is also true that US and the UK are the only countries where colonialism was stopped by domestic objection.
That wealth and power are spiritually dangerous is not some uniquely American thing. Rather it is that more Americans have wealth and power.
James, your post present a vast panorama of historical ignorance. Luckily ignorance is a treatable condition.
Jobs were listed under "man wanted" and "woman wanted" as last as the nineteen sixties. The women who were "moving into occupations" were able to move into occupations because of the "gals" who stood on the picket lines.
Amazingly enough you would know this is true for every movement if you actually Read A Few Books instead of depending on "watching a TV show" as the basis for you historical knowledge. Yes, actual words printed on paper can provide information in the 21st century.
Who "did more for civil rights" - the Freedom Riders or the students desegregating schools or the waves that followed? Who "did more for the environment" Carson* or Greenpeace or the Seirra Club? All of these played a critcal role, each providing a necessary element.
Without the radicals there would be no opening for the moderates to negotiate. Without the moderates to engotiate the radicals would be shut down. Without the trail blazers there is no trail to follow. Trails balzed but not followed offer value to none.
*Carson wrote a book, widly credited with creating modern environmental awareness.
I wonder how much of his views, and our acceptance of his views has to do with the change in technology happening in the time when he lived. I think that "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change" might argue that he was a function of the new information technology as much as or more than Bruno was a function of his unique personality. (amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521299551/ qid=950893184/sr=1-1/002-5894509-4101016 There is a condensed version also.
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It's not just about cya, it is about "he doesn't trust his boss".
Downloading and evaluating uncertified open source requires the ability to evaluate it, and the authorization to evaluate it. And it requires the ability to convince your superviser that you evaluation was correct.
Government is a big fat exercise in mistrust. Blance of power, oversight, transparency, and all the other inefficiency is about not trusting someone with money and power.
I applaud the certification of Red Hat, the process of certification, and I am very happy that vendors do need to get certified.
I agree that government will increasing adopt open source because there are certified versions.
MA is considering a law to make spam illegal and enable a private action against spammers. Thw current proposal sets damages at a min of hundreds.
I think a private action is ideal, because then the number of people willing to angry and sue a spammer also has to be a very small percentage to make this a money-losing game.
Of course, if we go through a time where spam can cause a couple of companies to accept large losses from private actions then there will be a stronger incentive for the destruction of anonymous electronic sppech. Because with anonymity you can "frame" a company for spammage. Of course, intelligent relays are a better idea but the prohibition on anonymity will have many more advocates. (I btw am not one, meaning I strongly suport anonymous speech.)
I do think that Sony now has an interest in not further enriching M$, given that M$ uses its monopoly income to support expanding into Sony's entertainment and games businesses.
;->
Yet I am happy about the three points above:
1. it is free
Hooray! Someone noticed that price != value
2. it is an adequate substitute
again, why not dance? It may not be great but SOffice and OOffice mean OSS has matured to be equivalent at the apps level. How long ago did you hear, "OK so there is a GUI but there will never be an office"?
3. there is very widespread OSS awareness in the market.
No reason to call off the party
OK -- here is my question:
Don't the routers crash from a list of prohibited sites _that_ large? If not, what is the size of a prohibited or redirtect list your standard cisco router could handle?
Thanks.
Of course Americans are hypcrites. We either accept our limits or proclaim greatest and try to live up to it.
Now I admit most corn-fed, SUV-driving, tv-numbed Americans don't really act. And the fact that we are powerful, we could control our government, makes that terrible. Of course, if you were femal in terms of freedom the Communist takeover was a wonder, and your freedoms expanded in a manner way that could have taken capitalism centuries ot manage.
Yet the US does not treat its own citizens with the same contempt for life, limb, and religious freedom as the Chinese gov't treats its people. It is true the US treats some _other_ countries that way, but it is also true that US and the UK are the only countries where colonialism was stopped by domestic objection.
That wealth and power are spiritually dangerous is not some uniquely American thing. Rather it is that more Americans have wealth and power.
-Jean
James, your post present a vast panorama of historical ignorance. Luckily ignorance is a treatable condition.
Jobs were listed under "man wanted" and "woman wanted" as last as the nineteen sixties. The women who were "moving into occupations" were able to move into occupations because of the "gals" who stood on the picket lines.
Amazingly enough you would know this is true for every movement if you actually Read A Few Books instead of depending on "watching a TV show" as the basis for you historical knowledge. Yes, actual words printed on paper can provide information in the 21st century.
Who "did more for civil rights" - the Freedom Riders or the students desegregating schools or the waves that followed? Who "did more for the environment" Carson* or Greenpeace or the Seirra Club? All of these played a critcal role, each providing a necessary element.
Without the radicals there would be no opening for the moderates to negotiate. Without the moderates to engotiate the radicals would be shut down. Without the trail blazers there is no trail to follow. Trails balzed but not followed offer value to none.
*Carson wrote a book, widly credited with creating modern environmental awareness.
I wonder how much of his views, and our acceptance of his views has to do with the change in technology happening in the time when he lived. I think that "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change" might argue that he was a function of the new information technology as much as or more than Bruno was a function of his unique personality. (amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521299551/ qid=950893184/sr=1-1/002-5894509-4101016 There is a condensed version also.