'Enterprise' pricing is a POS anyway. I've seen cases where they don't even give you extra support, just a triple price tag. Whoever came up with the idea of charging extra money to a business just cause they have a bigger checkbook is an idiot.
Wait. Scratch that. He's a rich idiot.
What they should do is offer the software/product to everyone for the same price and let you add support on later if you want it. If you already have a competent IT staff, why should you be forced to pay MSFT to hover over your shoulder?
Just be thankful that you can assume it will go to its "precise recipient." Up here in Canada, our postal system is so messed up, my street has three different names. If you use the most common one, there are at least three other places that have the exact same address, barring postal code - but I still get mail from them, even though the postal codes are completely different!
The reason though why Linux doesn't gain more marketshare is because people can not bring the apps they are used to over when they switch.
When netbooks first came out, people said "Oh, look, Linux would be perfect for that!" So they started selling netboosk preinstalled with Linux. Why didn't they go over as well as we expected? Sure, everything you should do on a netbook, you can do on Linux. But since the netbook's target audience doesn't understand computers at all, they complained "Why doesn't $APPLICATION work on this piece of junk Linux? I want Windows!"
I don't see this being any different, just because it's got Google. Even worse, people will buy it and say "Where's my Firefox? I don't understand this!" and take it back. If a full-featured distro didn't make it, I don't think a Google/Web-only distro is gonna have a chance.
I can't wait to be proven wrong, though.
So many things today I didn't see coming!
-We finally get a straight answer from Microsoft on C#, in favour of OSS
-Russia and the US agree to disarm
-Microsoft admits there's a security flaw in ActiveX
-VLC reaches 1.0
-Google's stuff gets out of Beta
Either I need to pay more attention, or drop my cynicism. I guess I kind of expected them to happen, just not for a while yet.
IANAL, but...You know what would be great? If you could say "I want to do this, this and this," and if any of them violated patents, the patent holders would be kind enough/required to mention that during the planning stage, long before you implement it.
Kind of a "If any man has any reason why these two technologies should not be joined in holy awesome-ness, let him speak now or forever hold his lawsuit" phase.
Then if it turns out you are infringing the patent, oh well, you gave them ample time to mention it.
Of course, this implies that the patents were held for the sole purpose of protecting your technology, and not just to get money off of poor suckers who use it. It would also require both parties to be honest (yeah, right!).
If Facebook becomes the center of the Web, I'm forking the project.
Seriously though, there's one major difference between Facebook and Google: you have to CHOOSE to be on Facebook.
If a prospective employer looks at Facebook for info about me, they aren't going to find anything. If they Google me, they will find documentation of awards I've won, etc. They can't find out about me from my friends if I don't tell them who my friends are, now can they?
No true user of Slackware would ever use a one-click installer.
Back in my day, we wrote apps in the terminal (none of this vim/nano stuff either, we used echo "commands" > foobar.c), compiled them uphill in the driving snow and rain, and ran them in shining single-color glory.
And we were PROUD of it!
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And the best part is, Microsoft somehow manages to get patents on them too!
You must be new around here.
Selling you a product for your own personal use, then telling you that you don't have the rights to use that product is a terrible concept. It's like buying a car, then being told that you have to pay them for a chauffeur, and can only drive on certain roads.
When I download media, I dang well want it to play on my devices. I will never buy a movie from iTunes, because nothing I own can play it back other than the computer I bought it on. This to me seems like a major flaw.
Maybe if the content providers would have used a sound business model that actually ATTRACTS customers instead of alienating them, they wouldn't have died in the first place?
Amen.
I call it Linux rather than GNU/Linux because I think that even if it is built out of a lot of GNU stuff, when you look at it as a whole, the kernel is really the only thing every distro has in common. I refer to each specific distro by its prefered name (Ubuntu Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, etc.) because, considering the GNU project only uses Linux until they finish Hurd, I don't think they have as much say in it the name as the distro devs, who put it all together do.
Why is this modded Troll? I would have expected Disagree/Flamebait, but Troll? It's a valid post pointing out the flaws in a popular opinion.
I know, I know... I must be new around here.
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Congratulations.
Could this be the Year of the Linux Stock Market?
'Enterprise' pricing is a POS anyway. I've seen cases where they don't even give you extra support, just a triple price tag. Whoever came up with the idea of charging extra money to a business just cause they have a bigger checkbook is an idiot.
Wait. Scratch that. He's a rich idiot.
What they should do is offer the software/product to everyone for the same price and let you add support on later if you want it. If you already have a competent IT staff, why should you be forced to pay MSFT to hover over your shoulder?
I'm not very creative.
The voices have much better ideas than me.
This is without question the most insightful thing I have read on /. all week.
Just be thankful that you can assume it will go to its "precise recipient." Up here in Canada, our postal system is so messed up, my street has three different names. If you use the most common one, there are at least three other places that have the exact same address, barring postal code - but I still get mail from them, even though the postal codes are completely different!
Tune in next week for...
The year of the Linux desktop!
The reason though why Linux doesn't gain more marketshare is because people can not bring the apps they are used to over when they switch.
When netbooks first came out, people said "Oh, look, Linux would be perfect for that!" So they started selling netboosk preinstalled with Linux. Why didn't they go over as well as we expected? Sure, everything you should do on a netbook, you can do on Linux. But since the netbook's target audience doesn't understand computers at all, they complained "Why doesn't $APPLICATION work on this piece of junk Linux? I want Windows!"
I don't see this being any different, just because it's got Google. Even worse, people will buy it and say "Where's my Firefox? I don't understand this!" and take it back. If a full-featured distro didn't make it, I don't think a Google/Web-only distro is gonna have a chance.
I can't wait to be proven wrong, though.
I expect GNU Hurd by the end of the week.
So many things today I didn't see coming!
-We finally get a straight answer from Microsoft on C#, in favour of OSS
-Russia and the US agree to disarm
-Microsoft admits there's a security flaw in ActiveX
-VLC reaches 1.0
-Google's stuff gets out of Beta
Either I need to pay more attention, or drop my cynicism. I guess I kind of expected them to happen, just not for a while yet.
Curse you Red Baryon!
IANAL, but...You know what would be great? If you could say "I want to do this, this and this," and if any of them violated patents, the patent holders would be kind enough/required to mention that during the planning stage, long before you implement it.
Kind of a "If any man has any reason why these two technologies should not be joined in holy awesome-ness, let him speak now or forever hold his lawsuit" phase.
Then if it turns out you are infringing the patent, oh well, you gave them ample time to mention it.
Of course, this implies that the patents were held for the sole purpose of protecting your technology, and not just to get money off of poor suckers who use it. It would also require both parties to be honest (yeah, right!).
A mega-colony of ants...now imagine if all the uncles joined them...
*Ducks all the flying objects headed his way*
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't most games using DirectX and not OpenGL, hence the lack of serious games for Linux?
Only on /. would 'LOL' get modded +3, Interesting.
If Facebook becomes the center of the Web, I'm forking the project.
Seriously though, there's one major difference between Facebook and Google: you have to CHOOSE to be on Facebook.
If a prospective employer looks at Facebook for info about me, they aren't going to find anything. If they Google me, they will find documentation of awards I've won, etc. They can't find out about me from my friends if I don't tell them who my friends are, now can they?
Don't say that too loud...the RIAA might get an idea...
It's available in China? It runs on pirated versions of Windows then? I wonder if it considers WGA as a virus?
The key phrase here being "in Debian or Ubuntu".
No true user of Slackware would ever use a one-click installer.
Back in my day, we wrote apps in the terminal (none of this vim/nano stuff either, we used echo "commands" > foobar.c), compiled them uphill in the driving snow and rain, and ran them in shining single-color glory.
And we were PROUD of it!
And the best part is, Microsoft somehow manages to get patents on them too!
Right you are.
It is, however, Linux for human beings.
You must be new around here.
Selling you a product for your own personal use, then telling you that you don't have the rights to use that product is a terrible concept. It's like buying a car, then being told that you have to pay them for a chauffeur, and can only drive on certain roads.
When I download media, I dang well want it to play on my devices. I will never buy a movie from iTunes, because nothing I own can play it back other than the computer I bought it on. This to me seems like a major flaw.
Maybe if the content providers would have used a sound business model that actually ATTRACTS customers instead of alienating them, they wouldn't have died in the first place?
Amen.
I call it Linux rather than GNU/Linux because I think that even if it is built out of a lot of GNU stuff, when you look at it as a whole, the kernel is really the only thing every distro has in common. I refer to each specific distro by its prefered name (Ubuntu Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, etc.) because, considering the GNU project only uses Linux until they finish Hurd, I don't think they have as much say in it the name as the distro devs, who put it all together do.
Why is this modded Troll? I would have expected Disagree/Flamebait, but Troll? It's a valid post pointing out the flaws in a popular opinion.
I know, I know... I must be new around here.