I know lots of people who are paid to develop free software, but only two who develop proprietary software. The proprietary developers hate their company, their work, and are looking for someplace more open. I think it's already been proven that most developers write software for in-house projects, not shrink wrapped goods.
I think the firewire failing had more to do with the high royalties that Apple demanded than anything else... that was the reason why USB cards were going for 1/10th the cost of firewire cards for years - the silicone certainly did not cost any more to make. Apple and Sony are often just too greedy for their own good. That Apple resisted that temptation with iTunes songs still suprises me - I think they must of come up with the pricing while Jobs was out on a sick day.
I think there might be a slight difference between a publicly traded company offering you a rebate, and the same company offering Dell a rebate. I said nothing about the former, further, it would be better for the small shops if Intel was forced to offer discounts rather than "rebates", and this would be better for individuals attempting to evaluate Intel's stock also.
It makes me sad to say this, but we really do need some kind of law against "rebates" and, what does Microsoft call it, "matching marketing funds"? These companies can not play fairly, and these accounting tricks need to be outlawed because that is all they are - accounting tricks to obscure bribes. Maybe something along the lines of outlawing these shady accounting practices for all publicly traded companies.
That is, unless Microsoft is scared enough of Linux that they want a viable competitor in Apple to help with their EU law troubles. If they can marginalize the FSF enough, it might be worth having the competitor to them. Microsoft has no fear of the BSD license.
That was an internal trial, and Microsoft does not sell it as such. Anyway, the their windows computers are all 2k now, not XP - which this article was kind of about....
It's a small tech company, and the CEO thinks he is sharper than he actually is, but as far as calling, he did try that route, but he was in South America, and could not get a call through while he was down there. That's the pain really, there is no problem as long as you do everything Microsoft thinks you should, but in real life things tend to happen, and it's nice not to have your software lock you out because you are in a situation that Microsoft failed to envision. I support users in the US that will ocasionally take notebooks to places where they have no phone or internet service. Product activation is not one of the things I want to stay up at night worrying about.
Well, XP does have one additional goodie.... I know of a couple companies that would rather not bother with product activation.
The best story I know of personally is with a notebook demanding reactivation for hardware changes during an XP trial while the user was on the road in a remote location with no way to activate... to bad it was the CEO's notebook. I guess these companies pushing product activation just can not understand why some customers resent being treated as copyright infringers.
Maybe easy for yoy, but I hate the fact that my phone does not match my keypad. I am constantly looking to purchase a phone with a "correct" number pad - so I guess this really is not for me.
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I agree, I was thinking "almost once per line"
and vi... don't forget vi - that was almost as much work to learn as learning touch typing - and now it's just as indispensible a tool as touch typing - I can not do without them. I guess it's not a programmer's tool.
Don't forget about your example that Internet Explorer was not originally a Microsoft product:
They took the code from a project called Mosiac
They made a deal with a company called Spyglass to use their source code from Mosiac
The deal was for a small quarterly payment and a big percentage of sales of Internet Explorer
They screwed both Netscape and their partner Mosiac by giving it away for free - undercutting the competition and avoiding all royalties to Spyglass - putting them out of business also.
So maybe they just could not find any BSD based CLI or naive proprietary company to screw out of a good CLI? You have to admit though - that is quite some business innovation - Bill's pure genius at it's best. I heard Spyglass finally got a few million out of their lawsuit. It just amazes me that people don't remember these things.
In fairness, I think the poster was blaming them for making HTML content the defacto standard - don't know if that is legitimate complaint or not.
I don't really mind HTML formated emails, I just don't understand why it has to support everything. If slashdot is smart enough to limit post to a subset of html codes and list the domains of links, why are graphical email client programmers not smart enough to do the same? Why are they not held responsible for not doing so? Why would you ever think that running javascript in an email would be a good idea? Microsoft is in no way alone in my criticism.
[SNIP]So, moving PalmOS to Linux makes perfect sense[SNIP]
I agree, but the other trouble that I see, that Palm does not seem to have addressed yet, is issues with their desktop and sync software. This is especially evident on OS X, where syncing is a terrible mess. (e.g. try putting a multi-day event in iCal.) I can not see any down side to Palm releasing all their versions of hotsync under the GPL, it would open so many possiblities to them.... As for their desktop software, I know of very few people who like it or use it, on any platform. I think they would be better off transitioning to Novell's Evolution. It is being ported to Windows now, and somewhat runs under OS X. The thing is, with Palm's support, it could run well under Linux, Windows, and OS X; - it supports Exchange and Novell's groupware products; they could bundle all three versions with their pdas; and they would no longer be dependant on Microsoft for help with Outlook. I just don't understand why they have not done so yet.
Tell me when they are running their own firewalls... or even when they provide their public services (ftp, html, smtp) on servers only protected by their own OS - irregardless of who makes the firewall on top.
Well, I am still waiting to see when they can "secure their perimeter". When they either start providing their internet services on naked boxes, or run their own OS for their firewalls and security is when I will believe they have decided to try to be serious about security. Until then it's all just marketing.
It is a poor article. I think the real sticking point is over software controls, and whether the systems will be running Java, as Sony wants, or MSTV system, designed by Microsoft.
A lot of these things would not be so annoying to me if I could just opt out. e.g. - I really feel sorry for people running Windows that have to install 2 or 3 TSR programs just to install their shitty $100 printer... It makes CUPS look wonderful in comparison.
This is the one Google service that has not worked well for me. I was trying what I thought would be some simple searches - e.g.
While visiting another city's downtown - bar
My own city - beer
Hoping to find an archery range - archery
There were some others that returned poor results also - To be fair, I think pub worked well, but only showed places that actually had pub in the name. The sad thing is, this is definately a service that the business owners want to have work well, not just end users like me. I wonder if there is not some way that Google could get input from the business owners to make the system work better.
I could not agree more. Source code should receive copyright protections (i.e. no change is needed for FOSS), but for a binary to receive equal protection, the complete and full copy of the source for each released version should be placed on retainer (at the publisher's expense) with the Copyright office for release at the expiration of copyright. No source - no copyright protections.
There are good reasons for restricting immigration. - penguinoid
Personally, I prefer The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
But maybe I am too old fashioned. Guess nobody told your ancestors they were not good enough for the US, more's the pity.
The government, like any other organization, must make moral decisions also. I would argue that a good government must be a transparent government, which means Freedom to access data... and where as proprietary software could use Free data structures, Microsoft's software does not, instead using formats as a competitive tool. That lockin should be a consideration for any organization, but even more so for a government.
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I know lots of people who are paid to develop free software, but only two who develop proprietary software. The proprietary developers hate their company, their work, and are looking for someplace more open. I think it's already been proven that most developers write software for in-house projects, not shrink wrapped goods.
I think the firewire failing had more to do with the high royalties that Apple demanded than anything else... that was the reason why USB cards were going for 1/10th the cost of firewire cards for years - the silicone certainly did not cost any more to make. Apple and Sony are often just too greedy for their own good. That Apple resisted that temptation with iTunes songs still suprises me - I think they must of come up with the pricing while Jobs was out on a sick day.
I think there might be a slight difference between a publicly traded company offering you a rebate, and the same company offering Dell a rebate. I said nothing about the former, further, it would be better for the small shops if Intel was forced to offer discounts rather than "rebates", and this would be better for individuals attempting to evaluate Intel's stock also.
It makes me sad to say this, but we really do need some kind of law against "rebates" and, what does Microsoft call it, "matching marketing funds"? These companies can not play fairly, and these accounting tricks need to be outlawed because that is all they are - accounting tricks to obscure bribes. Maybe something along the lines of outlawing these shady accounting practices for all publicly traded companies.
You have never served in any military service, have you.
That is, unless Microsoft is scared enough of Linux that they want a viable competitor in Apple to help with their EU law troubles. If they can marginalize the FSF enough, it might be worth having the competitor to them. Microsoft has no fear of the BSD license.
That was an internal trial, and Microsoft does not sell it as such. Anyway, the their windows computers are all 2k now, not XP - which this article was kind of about....
It's a small tech company, and the CEO thinks he is sharper than he actually is, but as far as calling, he did try that route, but he was in South America, and could not get a call through while he was down there. That's the pain really, there is no problem as long as you do everything Microsoft thinks you should, but in real life things tend to happen, and it's nice not to have your software lock you out because you are in a situation that Microsoft failed to envision. I support users in the US that will ocasionally take notebooks to places where they have no phone or internet service. Product activation is not one of the things I want to stay up at night worrying about.
Well, XP does have one additional goodie.... I know of a couple companies that would rather not bother with product activation.
The best story I know of personally is with a notebook demanding reactivation for hardware changes during an XP trial while the user was on the road in a remote location with no way to activate... to bad it was the CEO's notebook. I guess these companies pushing product activation just can not understand why some customers resent being treated as copyright infringers.
Maybe easy for yoy, but I hate the fact that my phone does not match my keypad. I am constantly looking to purchase a phone with a "correct" number pad - so I guess this really is not for me.
I agree, I was thinking "almost once per line"
and vi... don't forget vi - that was almost as much work to learn as learning touch typing - and now it's just as indispensible a tool as touch typing - I can not do without them. I guess it's not a programmer's tool.
Very well stated! Thank you.
- They took the code from a project called Mosiac
- They made a deal with a company called Spyglass to use their source code from Mosiac
- The deal was for a small quarterly payment and a big percentage of sales of Internet Explorer
- They screwed both Netscape and their partner Mosiac by giving it away for free - undercutting the competition and avoiding all royalties to Spyglass - putting them out of business also.
So maybe they just could not find any BSD based CLI or naive proprietary company to screw out of a good CLI? You have to admit though - that is quite some business innovation - Bill's pure genius at it's best. I heard Spyglass finally got a few million out of their lawsuit. It just amazes me that people don't remember these things.I will blame Microsoft for Word attachments in email though....
In fairness, I think the poster was blaming them for making HTML content the defacto standard - don't know if that is legitimate complaint or not.
I don't really mind HTML formated emails, I just don't understand why it has to support everything. If slashdot is smart enough to limit post to a subset of html codes and list the domains of links, why are graphical email client programmers not smart enough to do the same? Why are they not held responsible for not doing so? Why would you ever think that running javascript in an email would be a good idea? Microsoft is in no way alone in my criticism.Tell me when they are running their own firewalls... or even when they provide their public services (ftp, html, smtp) on servers only protected by their own OS - irregardless of who makes the firewall on top.
Well, I am still waiting to see when they can "secure their perimeter". When they either start providing their internet services on naked boxes, or run their own OS for their firewalls and security is when I will believe they have decided to try to be serious about security. Until then it's all just marketing.
It is a poor article. I think the real sticking point is over software controls, and whether the systems will be running Java, as Sony wants, or MSTV system, designed by Microsoft.
A better article is here from the EETimes.
I'm not sure I am excited by either prospect, but I worry more about the Microsoft licensing.- be reliable
- be secure
- obey me and no one else
- generally stay out of my way
A lot of these things would not be so annoying to me if I could just opt out.e.g. - I really feel sorry for people running Windows that have to install 2 or 3 TSR programs just to install their shitty $100 printer... It makes CUPS look wonderful in comparison.
- While visiting another city's downtown - bar
- My own city - beer
- Hoping to find an archery range - archery
There were some others that returned poor results also - To be fair, I think pub worked well, but only showed places that actually had pub in the name. The sad thing is, this is definately a service that the business owners want to have work well, not just end users like me. I wonder if there is not some way that Google could get input from the business owners to make the system work better.I could not agree more. Source code should receive copyright protections (i.e. no change is needed for FOSS), but for a binary to receive equal protection, the complete and full copy of the source for each released version should be placed on retainer (at the publisher's expense) with the Copyright office for release at the expiration of copyright. No source - no copyright protections.
There are good reasons for restricting immigration. - penguinoid
Personally, I prefer The New Colossus
But maybe I am too old fashioned. Guess nobody told your ancestors they were not good enough for the US, more's the pity.
The government, like any other organization, must make moral decisions also. I would argue that a good government must be a transparent government, which means Freedom to access data... and where as proprietary software could use Free data structures, Microsoft's software does not, instead using formats as a competitive tool. That lockin should be a consideration for any organization, but even more so for a government.
Why would you want to do regression testing. Someone is, just appears it is not microsoft....