Several years ago I remember having to sign up for MSDN just to use the knowledge base. And I had to use their knowledgebase since their tech support wouldn't even talk to you unless you gave them your credit card number. I forgot my password the first couple of times so I ended up showing up as 3 different MSDN members using slightly different spellings of my name.
Not long afterward the usual Ms mouthpieces announced in their columns that Java was dead because there were only x number of Java developers but that there were millions of MSDN developers and their ranks were swelling at a much faster rate.
So expect to see articles in trade rags soon claiming that Passport is wonderful and that people are flocking to it in even higher numbers than expected.;^)
Quite often, IDC's intent is to interest companies in purchasing the entire study. 8^)
Would this be an accurate paraphrase?
Though our studies aren't usually funded by a particular company beforehand, when the result presents a company in a favorable way, then the company will tend to buy the study to use in a Marketing campaign. (And our studies cost more than some of your cars)
The reason is obviously to hijack the MP3 name. All the kids downloading music files won't even realize that the codec is different and the dire consequences associated with that.
>>I want publicly funded software to remain publicly available and free to all. I don't want Microsoft or any other corporate entity to swallow it and never let it see the light of day again.
>Please explain how using code makes it unavailable.
Let me. Lets imagine that the government has partly paid for the development of a digital music player. Now imagine a hypothetical consortium of rich established music publishing companies called Microsteal who take the Public Domain code and add an encryption algorithm with a cute name of, say, CSSteal. So now they have code 99.999% funded by the taxpayer but the taxpayer cannot even use it without paying again for the ever so slightly changed player and for the encryupted music files and in higher prices to the OS maker who pays Microsteal to allow them to compile the code on their platform.
And if someone felt free enough to examine the ever so slightly changed code and discovered that it was actually 99.999% public domain, he would be arrested, fined and imprisoned for breaking a new law called the DMCA even though he and his ancestors had the right to do that until the DMCA was lobbied through Congress only very recently.
I have to disagree with your assessment. If you are old enough to remember, you should know that this strategy of being happy as a small fish in a big pond is what allowed IBM to wrest the PC market away from Apple.
"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies."
I smiled when I read those words because I believe this could be the final onslaught in Linux world domination. Imagine free and open software being the lowest common denominator for inexpensive electronics.
The savings in licensing and development alone will give manufacturers of mass produced commodities based on it the edge they need to establish the defacto standard.
I read something about this a while back. I think it was in Scientific American. There are other lakes sealed in the ice in Antarctica as well and I think the concensus was that they should try out their techniques on the small ones before possibly contaminating Lake Vostok.
Bill Joy seems mostly interested in preserving industries. If this were the 1920's he would be devising ways of protecting buggy whip manufacturers.
He is also overlooking two important things. First that copyright is a fairly new concept yet it never stopped great literature from being written. By his logic, Shakespeare should not have written anything because his work could be used without his consent.
Secondly that the printing press is often considered the most important invention in modern times precisely because it put information into the hands of the people where before it had been mostly exclusive to the clergy in their high cathedrals.
Free flow of information would be beneficial to mankind just as it was in Gutenberg's day. Perhaps it would usher in a new Age of Renaissance.
Bill Joy seems to want us to trade that off to protect the financial interests of a few buggy whip makers and their stockholders.
It would be interesting to hear what the Slashdot community thinks of what MS is doing better (or what they think they're doing better) in their plans for.NET, and how much potential they have.
Yes it would be interesting for the leaders at MS to hear what the Slashdot community thinks while.net is still in the early development stages. After all why not have a few thousand computer geeks analyze your strategy and point out its strengths and weaknesses while there is plenty of time to change. By all means, let's help Microsoft capture a new monopoly. Look at how well behaved they were with their OS monopoly!
I think it would be bad to focus on one company in this fledgling industry and try to convince ourselves that that one company has or will become a new Microsoft. At this stage in the game, Linux needs a champion. Here in the US that champion is Redhat. Yet the nature of Open Source insures that Redhat will never be able to abuse the type of monopoly power that MS now holds.
Q. Do you think that Bill Gates has anything in common with any great world leaders?
A. "Bill Gates is very Napoleonic"
Q. Brad Pitt made the Vanity Fair Best Dressed list this year, what is your personal opinion on this?
A. "I think Bill Gates is one of the worst [ever]"
Q. Do you think that microsoft employees like to socialize with each other, playing Quake or Paintball or perhaps some card games after work? What board games do you think they would enjoy most?
A. "Bill and his company obviously have monopoly traits, no, no doubt about it"
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Maybe it's new way to do market research. Buy a news network and put out a bogus story on a mysterious product and then ask the masses what they hope IT is!
On the other hand maybe it really is the omnipotent, omniscient, artificially super-intelligent, mind-reading, sensory input inducing (for awesome VR games!), cheap, environmentally friendly, runs on blacklightpower hydrinos, high-temperature superconducting, instantaneous transportation and communication device, with a built-in simulated oral sex attachment, that I really really wanted for Christmas but didn't get.
If IT only runs on Windows I think I might consider dual booting.
He didn't mention maintainability much in his rant. Perhaps because it would be a major counter point to his assertion. The only place where I can remember it even being mentioned was in an idiotic metaphor with automobile mechanics.
-- Jane you ignorant slut --
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I don't think that 'man of mr e' works with Netware. Statements like "With the exception of NDS, Novell has very little technology that makes sense in a Linux environment" just aren't true.
Since Eric Schmidt became CEO of Novell there has been a change in strategic direction in the company. They are moving to pure IP and putting very heavy emphasis on technologies such as Java, LDAP, IMAP, and HTTP, etc.
Netware 5 has Xwindows built in and as they beef up the Java ConsoleOne admin application, it will become the standard way of performing admin functions. No more need to config from a workstation although you still can if you want; just redirect the x display to an xserver on your pc. And unload the GUI when you don't want it sucking up mem and proc resources. You caN'T do that with NT.
"So, Novell finds itself in the unusual position of hoping that MS wins its anti-trust appeals, since Linux could very well make Netware irrelevant"
He suggests that Novell would rather be sat upon by an 800 pound gorilla named Microsoft rather than get a second wind while a benevolent little monkey named Linux tries to put on another 750 pounds.
And what does IP addressable print servers have to do with anything? Netware does IP now. NDPS adds value to the antiquated print services that he evidently remembers. When using direct IP addressing, can you manage a queue that sits in a buffer on an HP print server? Can you control access to a queue using any directory service on an HP print server when printing direct IP?
Novell does need to make changes to ensure that it will be around for a long time. But as for an 'ace in the hole' I believe that the most important thing for them is not some particular piece of software but to make their code and their organization as configurable as possible so that strategic changes can be made easily, orderly, and in the shortest time.
In Business as in Biology, the companies which can adapt the quickest will survive and flourish.
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There was an article recently which also talked about tunneling through DNS. There was an href to download the software as well. Tunnelling via DNS would be instantaneous. No need to wait on a mail forwarder.
Think for a moment about what was said and imagine that he did mean Redhat when he said 'we'. What is wrong with that statement? Redhat has popularized Linux like no other company. The name Redhat was synonymous in the press for Linux for quite some time.
The United States was the first democratic nation and many others have followed since yet democracy was not invented by Americans. Should we be offended if someone attributes starting the American revolution to the Continental Congress instead of Rousseau? Should Marx roll over in his grave and shake his fist that he isn't given credit for overthrowing the Bolsheviks?
Redhat didn't invent Open Source but they did popularize it to the point where they might be considered as having started the revolution.
Giving away hardware and charging for software is idiotic. What brain damaged moron set them on this einstein financial strategy? Or are they guided by some sort of far-sidian genetic algorithm, cluelessly drifting through business space until either randomly hitting a jackpot or running out of money?
Ever since the threat of network computers came about, the price of PCs suddenly dropped quite a bit. This didn't benefit the hardware manufacturers whose margins dropped to razor thin. However they did make up for some of this by selling more units. Who did profit? Intel and Microsoft. They didn't have to lower prices because they have monopolies.
If there are any 22 year old shit-for-brains dot com CFO's listening; SELL the hardware and let the software be FREE!
'There's yet one more problem facing crewed, supercavitating craft, which no one appears to have an answer to. How will such a vehicle reach supercavitating speeds in the first place? After all, who wants to sit in a craft as it is fired from a gun'
Does anyone remember the name of the show from the 60's that had a flying sub? I want to say "20,000 leagues under the sea" but I might be getting it mixed up with Jules Verne's story.
I suppose slamming into the water at high speeds might be just as unpleasant as accelerating to those speeds in the water.
What about a vehicle shaped so that it starts out as a supercavitating hydrofoil but then lowers itself into the bubble gently? The hydrofoils would then jut out of the bubble once it is completely submerged becoming the control surfaces needed for steering.
The problem is not that it is distributed in source code form. The problem is that it is distributed at all. The publishers want to retain as much control over the viewing of the copyrighted material as possible in order to maximize their profits.
By restricting playback they can prevent the import of cheaper copies from countries where they themselves sell them cheaper. It would also prevent the import of pirated copies from countries where copyright infringement is not enforced.
Restricting playback also gives them the option of trying a DIVX type of scheme again in the future. That way they get paid for each viewing of the information and can track users viewing habits in order to tailor pricing and marketing policies to gain the maximum profit.
The biggest problem that I see is not the current issue of playing DVD's in Linux, but that this Draconian law now can be used to hamper intellectual freedom in all areas of information storage and retrieval.
Imagine a day when paper books no longer exist, when all knowledge is stored on digital media. Then the long established precedents regarding their use and the use of the information contained in them no longer apply. The new electronic books will be covered under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, infringement against carrying penalties as severe as 2nd degree murder.
Imagine when every bit of information has a cost to view it and is priced based on whatever the market will bear to maximize the publishers profits. How will this affect the gap between the priveleged and the underpriveleged?
How has history treated societies who control access to knowledge compared to those where information is spread freely? Remember the printing press and the Gutenburg bible and think about what this law will do in contrast.
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Several years ago I remember having to sign up for MSDN just to use the knowledge base. And I had to use their knowledgebase since their tech support wouldn't even talk to you unless you gave them your credit card number. I forgot my password the first couple of times so I ended up showing up as 3 different MSDN members using slightly different spellings of my name.
;^)
Not long afterward the usual Ms mouthpieces announced in their columns that Java was dead because there were only x number of Java developers but that there were millions of MSDN developers and their ranks were swelling at a much faster rate.
So expect to see articles in trade rags soon claiming that Passport is wonderful and that people are flocking to it in even higher numbers than expected.
Would this be an accurate paraphrase?
Though our studies aren't usually funded by a particular company beforehand, when the result presents a company in a favorable way, then the company will tend to buy the study to use in a Marketing campaign. (And our studies cost more than some of your cars)
The reason is obviously to hijack the MP3 name. All the kids downloading music files won't even realize that the codec is different and the dire consequences associated with that.
>Please explain how using code makes it unavailable.
Let me. Lets imagine that the government has partly paid for the development of a digital music player. Now imagine a hypothetical consortium of rich established music publishing companies called Microsteal who take the Public Domain code and add an encryption algorithm with a cute name of, say, CSSteal. So now they have code 99.999% funded by the taxpayer but the taxpayer cannot even use it without paying again for the ever so slightly changed player and for the encryupted music files and in higher prices to the OS maker who pays Microsteal to allow them to compile the code on their platform.
And if someone felt free enough to examine the ever so slightly changed code and discovered that it was actually 99.999% public domain, he would be arrested, fined and imprisoned for breaking a new law called the DMCA even though he and his ancestors had the right to do that until the DMCA was lobbied through Congress only very recently.
I have to disagree with your assessment. If you are old enough to remember, you should know that this strategy of being happy as a small fish in a big pond is what allowed IBM to wrest the PC market away from Apple.
"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies."
I smiled when I read those words because I believe this could be the final onslaught in Linux world domination. Imagine free and open software being the lowest common denominator for inexpensive electronics.
The savings in licensing and development alone will give manufacturers of mass produced commodities based on it the edge they need to establish the defacto standard.
Go Nokia!
Go Nokia!
It's your birthday!
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A commercial product which does what you need is Novell Groupwise using its document management libraries.
I read something about this a while back. I think it was in Scientific American. There are other lakes sealed in the ice in Antarctica as well and I think the concensus was that they should try out their techniques on the small ones before possibly contaminating Lake Vostok.
Bill Joy seems mostly interested in preserving industries. If this were the 1920's he would be devising ways of protecting buggy whip manufacturers.
He is also overlooking two important things. First that copyright is a fairly new concept yet it never stopped great literature from being written. By his logic, Shakespeare should not have written anything because his work could be used without his consent.
Secondly that the printing press is often considered the most important invention in modern times precisely because it put information into the hands of the people where before it had been mostly exclusive to the clergy in their high cathedrals.
Free flow of information would be beneficial to mankind just as it was in Gutenberg's day. Perhaps it would usher in a new Age of Renaissance.
Bill Joy seems to want us to trade that off to protect the financial interests of a few buggy whip makers and their stockholders.
Yes it would be interesting for the leaders at MS to hear what the Slashdot community thinks while .net is still in the early development stages. After all why not have a few thousand computer geeks analyze your strategy and point out its strengths and weaknesses while there is plenty of time to change. By all means, let's help Microsoft capture a new monopoly. Look at how well behaved they were with their OS monopoly!
I think it would be bad to focus on one company in this fledgling industry and try to convince ourselves that that one company has or will become a new Microsoft. At this stage in the game, Linux needs a champion. Here in the US that champion is Redhat. Yet the nature of Open Source insures that Redhat will never be able to abuse the type of monopoly power that MS now holds.
-Absolute power corrupts absolutely-
Next thing you know Microsoft will create software which is intertwined with open source and has a similar license that it can only be run on windows.
What about the context of these statements!
Q. Do you think that Bill Gates has anything in common with any great world leaders?
A. "Bill Gates is very Napoleonic"
Q. Brad Pitt made the Vanity Fair Best Dressed list this year, what is your personal opinion on this?
A. "I think Bill Gates is one of the worst [ever]"
Q. Do you think that microsoft employees like to socialize with each other, playing Quake or Paintball or perhaps some card games after work? What board games do you think they would enjoy most?
A. "Bill and his company obviously have monopoly traits, no, no doubt about it"
Maybe it's new way to do market research. Buy a news network and put out a bogus story on a mysterious product and then ask the masses what they hope IT is!
On the other hand maybe it really is the omnipotent, omniscient, artificially super-intelligent, mind-reading, sensory input inducing (for awesome VR games!), cheap, environmentally friendly, runs on blacklightpower hydrinos, high-temperature superconducting, instantaneous transportation and communication device, with a built-in simulated oral sex attachment, that I really really wanted for Christmas but didn't get.
If IT only runs on Windows I think I might consider dual booting.
He didn't mention maintainability much in his rant. Perhaps because it would be a major counter point to his assertion. The only place where I can remember it even being mentioned was in an idiotic metaphor with automobile mechanics.
-- Jane you ignorant slut --
Since Eric Schmidt became CEO of Novell there has been a change in strategic direction in the company. They are moving to pure IP and putting very heavy emphasis on technologies such as Java, LDAP, IMAP, and HTTP, etc.
Netware 5 has Xwindows built in and as they beef up the Java ConsoleOne admin application, it will become the standard way of performing admin functions. No more need to config from a workstation although you still can if you want; just redirect the x display to an xserver on your pc. And unload the GUI when you don't want it sucking up mem and proc resources. You caN'T do that with NT.
"So, Novell finds itself in the unusual position of hoping that MS wins its anti-trust appeals, since Linux could very well make Netware irrelevant"
He suggests that Novell would rather be sat upon by an 800 pound gorilla named Microsoft rather than get a second wind while a benevolent little monkey named Linux tries to put on another 750 pounds.
And what does IP addressable print servers have to do with anything? Netware does IP now. NDPS adds value to the antiquated print services that he evidently remembers. When using direct IP addressing, can you manage a queue that sits in a buffer on an HP print server? Can you control access to a queue using any directory service on an HP print server when printing direct IP?
Novell does need to make changes to ensure that it will be around for a long time. But as for an 'ace in the hole' I believe that the most important thing for them is not some particular piece of software but to make their code and their organization as configurable as possible so that strategic changes can be made easily, orderly, and in the shortest time.
In Business as in Biology, the companies which can adapt the quickest will survive and flourish.
There was an article recently which also talked about tunneling through DNS. There was an href to download the software as well. Tunnelling via DNS would be instantaneous. No need to wait on a mail forwarder.
The United States was the first democratic nation and many others have followed since yet democracy was not invented by Americans. Should we be offended if someone attributes starting the American revolution to the Continental Congress instead of Rousseau? Should Marx roll over in his grave and shake his fist that he isn't given credit for overthrowing the Bolsheviks?
Redhat didn't invent Open Source but they did popularize it to the point where they might be considered as having started the revolution.
Giving away hardware and charging for software is idiotic. What brain damaged moron set them on this einstein financial strategy? Or are they guided by some sort of far-sidian genetic algorithm, cluelessly drifting through business space until either randomly hitting a jackpot or running out of money?
Ever since the threat of network computers came about, the price of PCs suddenly dropped quite a bit. This didn't benefit the hardware manufacturers whose margins dropped to razor thin. However they did make up for some of this by selling more units. Who did profit? Intel and Microsoft. They didn't have to lower prices because they have monopolies.
If there are any 22 year old shit-for-brains dot com CFO's listening; SELL the hardware and let the software be FREE!
Will this connect to the other servers like ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger?
'There's yet one more problem facing crewed, supercavitating craft, which no one appears to have an answer to. How will such a vehicle reach supercavitating speeds in the first place? After all, who wants to sit in a craft as it is fired from a gun'
Does anyone remember the name of the show from the 60's that had a flying sub? I want to say "20,000 leagues under the sea" but I might be getting it mixed up with Jules Verne's story.
I suppose slamming into the water at high speeds might be just as unpleasant as accelerating to those speeds in the water.
What about a vehicle shaped so that it starts out as a supercavitating hydrofoil but then lowers itself into the bubble gently? The hydrofoils would then jut out of the bubble once it is completely submerged becoming the control surfaces needed for steering.
Forget the Basic Stamp processor.
Take a look at www.oopic.com
Oopic blows BS away.
It is rare for someone to be so open and honest in an interview about everything including their relationships and upbringing.
I already thought of him as a master coder, but now I get the impression that if I knew him personally I would genuinely like him.
His story about open source was right on the mark and now I have a real world example for people along with a name they might recognize.
His comments on how you can still learn from anyone is a pretty good philosophy. I wish I had understood that when I was younger.
Well it will prevent a Baby Bill division responsible for development tools from buying Inprise and getting a leg up into the Linux market.
The problem is not that it is distributed in source code form. The problem is that it is distributed at all. The publishers want to retain as much control over the viewing of the copyrighted material as possible in order to maximize their profits.
By restricting playback they can prevent the import of cheaper copies from countries where they themselves sell them cheaper. It would also prevent the import of pirated copies from countries where copyright infringement is not enforced.
Restricting playback also gives them the option of trying a DIVX type of scheme again in the future. That way they get paid for each viewing of the information and can track users viewing habits in order to tailor pricing and marketing policies to gain the maximum profit.
The biggest problem that I see is not the current issue of playing DVD's in Linux, but that this Draconian law now can be used to hamper intellectual freedom in all areas of information storage and retrieval.
Imagine a day when paper books no longer exist, when all knowledge is stored on digital media. Then the long established precedents regarding their use and the use of the information contained in them no longer apply. The new electronic books will be covered under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, infringement against carrying penalties as severe as 2nd degree murder.
Imagine when every bit of information has a cost to view it and is priced based on whatever the market will bear to maximize the publishers profits. How will this affect the gap between the priveleged and the underpriveleged?
How has history treated societies who control access to knowledge compared to those where information is spread freely? Remember the printing press and the Gutenburg bible and think about what this law will do in contrast.