On the other hand, if Microsoft is actually licensing at levels that are profitable for Microsoft, then their competitors need to shut up and get their acts together.
Why does Microsoft have over $40 BILLION in cash reserves? Because contrary to Slashdot opinion, Microsoft doesn't do much of anything that isn't profitable. You can bet your ass that they are making money on this scheme as is.
If your competitors cannot match your price, then tough cookies, let 'em die. Again, name one instance where MS raised prices AFTER the competition went away. Everyone wants to bring up Netscape so here we go: If MS has followed a monoply model, what is the price of IE today? Oh, it is still free. No monopoly abuse there. Ok, "they killed Netscape, there's less choice now!" Oh, so you can't get a Netscape browser today? Wait, you can! So Netscape is still around, along with IE, and both can be had for a download and no $. How again is the public at large worse off?
Killing your competition by price alone is not abuse, nor a bad thing. A better product is not relivent and a matter of perception. Many potental customers will say a product is better because it is cheaper.
The parent post most certainly is NOT a troll and is dead on. Let us not forget this is the same company that got caught installing spyware with their product even AFTER they claimed they had removed it. This company and their product is crap.
I completely agree. The more negative publicity this generates, the better. Better idea: write to your local newspaper "cyber" journalist and ask them to look into what a hassle this is.
Ok, now would all the rocket scientists here explain to me why IE loads apache pages just as fast as IIS pages? And way faster than Mozilla? This smells like FUD from Open Source land because there isn't a speed difference based on the server OS. IE renders pictures much faster than Netscape/Mozilla, that is the difference. God forbid if Microsoft actually codes something better than open source or it's competitors. So it HAS to be standards breaking! Wonder how they got the Apache group to comply?
Nvidia with lauches every 6 monthes isn't fast enough? Only took ATI, what 3 YEARS to beat a Nvidia card? By your line of resoning we should also worry about ATI because they haven't topped their own card in like monthes!
Not being able to understand source code does not equal ignorance. A Chemical Engineer may be able to tell you some very interesting things you can do with household chemicals, does that make you a dumbass because you didn't know that too? You, the programmer, should be able to explain to me what your program does. Doesn't mean you have to provide line by line explanations of your code, just what the program is trying to accomplish and hopefully some install and usability howtos. The great cop out for open source programmers is the position that they don't want lots of people installing and using their software. If you didn't want people to use it, why did you publicly release it?
I certainly agree to an extent. But Tolkien was against the manner in which industry was advancing rather than technological/industrial advances themselves. He didn't like the seeming wanton destruction of his countryside. The elves and orcs are perfect examples of this ideology. The orcs obviously are the industrialist of his area who are destroying and defiling the countryside in the name of progress and personal wealth. Yet, the elves and good humans too had mass produced weapons, clothing, armor, etc. Tolkien never argued against progress or industry, he argued for a better way of doing things.
Culture pundits are pissed that a 60 year old book now dominates our popular coconsciousness. (sarcasm alert) The movie even had (canyoubelieveit) the gall to be faithful to the book. No creative license was taken to make it 21st century hip!
Speaking of SpeakEasy, kind of cuts to the REAL issue with internet service in the US. Where are the companies that will allow you to run your own servers? Where are the vinilla connections of bandwidth and an ip address? Why is it nearly impossible for me to run my own web and email servers? I argue that it would be far cheaper to support a power use who runs these himself than the average joe, who will call support ad nausium. I can't think of a good business reason.
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Welcome to the Detroit area where the local Bell, Ameritech, pulled the plug from all the local DSL shops and put them out of business. All because a) they didn't want businesses to get DSL instead of much more expensive T1 lines, and b) didn't feel like upgrading infrastructure so DSL could be rolled out to a wider range of households. Does that answer your question?
I'm a little fuzzy on the exact time, but it mainly was when IBM found out about a projected named 'NT' going on at Microsoft. Of course, IBM wasn't in a position to dump Microsoft in an instant. They had to start hiring programmers to take over the code base.
..except that Microsoft wrote the first few versions of OS/2, so technically, it was their UI to begin with. OS/2 failed for a lot of reasons, one of them was they wanted to created OS/2 to put Microsoft out of business, but then turned around and contracted MS to write it for them. Microsoft just used OS/2 as a test bed for NT 3.
Try getting someone who saw the movie Jonny Memonic to read the story, or anything else by Gibson. Bad movies sour the next generation on great literature of the near past.
Didn't take a whole lot of reading to see the Linux crowd is missing the point here. That study only backs up what I tell Linux advocates. First off, drop the "xyz is easier to do in you just do abc" If you know the OS, it is easier. If you are learning fresh, they both are intimidating.
Linux people tend to only think of enterprise computing (and all computing for that matter) as web servers. I think the results of IDC's study. However, web computing is only a fraction of all computing. There are a lot of databases big and small. There are many file servers. There are many print servers. There are many APPLICATION servers. There are domain controllers. etc. Microsoft spends lots of R&D on making it all work together for the end user. They also spend a lot of time and effort giving admins tools to manage end users and their desktops. Novell is the only other company/OS in this arena. NDS and Active Directory ring a bell? Software deployment sound familar to anyone? Clue: Big shops don't send PC jockeys with CDs to install applications. They get pushed down with Zenworks or GPOs. Ask a Linux administrator to setup a plan to convert all the company's desktops with little to no downtime for the users. Now ask a Novell or Microsoft admin to do it. Guess who can't get it done fast. Ask a Linux admin to use his Linux servers to lock down the users' desktops to minimize support calls. You don't think of that one often, do you? Developing these kinds of enterprise tools isn't sexy, but it is critical. Without it, Linux will always be a niche in the server room. The next time your boss decides to go with a Microsoft solution indstead of Linux, don't bitch about marketing. Realize that there is this whole other role to be filled out in the enterprise. Now get coding and fill that role!
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Why does Microsoft have over $40 BILLION in cash reserves? Because contrary to Slashdot opinion, Microsoft doesn't do much of anything that isn't profitable. You can bet your ass that they are making money on this scheme as is.
If your competitors cannot match your price, then tough cookies, let 'em die. Again, name one instance where MS raised prices AFTER the competition went away. Everyone wants to bring up Netscape so here we go: If MS has followed a monoply model, what is the price of IE today? Oh, it is still free. No monopoly abuse there. Ok, "they killed Netscape, there's less choice now!" Oh, so you can't get a Netscape browser today? Wait, you can! So Netscape is still around, along with IE, and both can be had for a download and no $. How again is the public at large worse off?
Killing your competition by price alone is not abuse, nor a bad thing. A better product is not relivent and a matter of perception. Many potental customers will say a product is better because it is cheaper.
The parent post most certainly is NOT a troll and is dead on. Let us not forget this is the same company that got caught installing spyware with their product even AFTER they claimed they had removed it. This company and their product is crap.
I completely agree. The more negative publicity this generates, the better. Better idea: write to your local newspaper "cyber" journalist and ask them to look into what a hassle this is.
Ok, now would all the rocket scientists here explain to me why IE loads apache pages just as fast as IIS pages? And way faster than Mozilla? This smells like FUD from Open Source land because there isn't a speed difference based on the server OS. IE renders pictures much faster than Netscape/Mozilla, that is the difference. God forbid if Microsoft actually codes something better than open source or it's competitors. So it HAS to be standards breaking! Wonder how they got the Apache group to comply?
So James Watt is making a comeback?
ATI and "drivers that work" should never be used in the same paragraph.
Nvidia with lauches every 6 monthes isn't fast enough? Only took ATI, what 3 YEARS to beat a Nvidia card? By your line of resoning we should also worry about ATI because they haven't topped their own card in like monthes!
Not being able to understand source code does not equal ignorance. A Chemical Engineer may be able to tell you some very interesting things you can do with household chemicals, does that make you a dumbass because you didn't know that too? You, the programmer, should be able to explain to me what your program does. Doesn't mean you have to provide line by line explanations of your code, just what the program is trying to accomplish and hopefully some install and usability howtos. The great cop out for open source programmers is the position that they don't want lots of people installing and using their software. If you didn't want people to use it, why did you publicly release it?
Fair? Yes. Accurate? No. The RIAA is a cartel.
I certainly agree to an extent. But Tolkien was against the manner in which industry was advancing rather than technological/industrial advances themselves. He didn't like the seeming wanton destruction of his countryside. The elves and orcs are perfect examples of this ideology. The orcs obviously are the industrialist of his area who are destroying and defiling the countryside in the name of progress and personal wealth. Yet, the elves and good humans too had mass produced weapons, clothing, armor, etc. Tolkien never argued against progress or industry, he argued for a better way of doing things.
Culture pundits are pissed that a 60 year old book now dominates our popular coconsciousness. (sarcasm alert) The movie even had (canyoubelieveit) the gall to be faithful to the book. No creative license was taken to make it 21st century hip!
In aggregate, these guys should have the money to defeat these 'patent' claims.
Speaking of SpeakEasy, kind of cuts to the REAL issue with internet service in the US. Where are the companies that will allow you to run your own servers? Where are the vinilla connections of bandwidth and an ip address? Why is it nearly impossible for me to run my own web and email servers? I argue that it would be far cheaper to support a power use who runs these himself than the average joe, who will call support ad nausium. I can't think of a good business reason.
Welcome to the Detroit area where the local Bell, Ameritech, pulled the plug from all the local DSL shops and put them out of business. All because a) they didn't want businesses to get DSL instead of much more expensive T1 lines, and b) didn't feel like upgrading infrastructure so DSL could be rolled out to a wider range of households. Does that answer your question?
I'm a little fuzzy on the exact time, but it mainly was when IBM found out about a projected named 'NT' going on at Microsoft. Of course, IBM wasn't in a position to dump Microsoft in an instant. They had to start hiring programmers to take over the code base.
..except that Microsoft wrote the first few versions of OS/2, so technically, it was their UI to begin with. OS/2 failed for a lot of reasons, one of them was they wanted to created OS/2 to put Microsoft out of business, but then turned around and contracted MS to write it for them. Microsoft just used OS/2 as a test bed for NT 3.
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You don't remember typewriters and adding machines, or for that matter, the dictaphone, do you?
Remember them, sure. But I didn't work in an office back in the stone age either. :-)
Try getting someone who saw the movie Jonny Memonic to read the story, or anything else by Gibson. Bad movies sour the next generation on great literature of the near past.
A remake of "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads.
Linux people tend to only think of enterprise computing (and all computing for that matter) as web servers. I think the results of IDC's study. However, web computing is only a fraction of all computing. There are a lot of databases big and small. There are many file servers. There are many print servers. There are many APPLICATION servers. There are domain controllers. etc. Microsoft spends lots of R&D on making it all work together for the end user. They also spend a lot of time and effort giving admins tools to manage end users and their desktops. Novell is the only other company/OS in this arena. NDS and Active Directory ring a bell? Software deployment sound familar to anyone? Clue: Big shops don't send PC jockeys with CDs to install applications. They get pushed down with Zenworks or GPOs. Ask a Linux administrator to setup a plan to convert all the company's desktops with little to no downtime for the users. Now ask a Novell or Microsoft admin to do it. Guess who can't get it done fast. Ask a Linux admin to use his Linux servers to lock down the users' desktops to minimize support calls. You don't think of that one often, do you? Developing these kinds of enterprise tools isn't sexy, but it is critical. Without it, Linux will always be a niche in the server room. The next time your boss decides to go with a Microsoft solution indstead of Linux, don't bitch about marketing. Realize that there is this whole other role to be filled out in the enterprise. Now get coding and fill that role!
If you can call yourself an "evangelist" for an OS then you've crossed over to zealotry.