Territorial distrust is the key concept here. Microsoft does not know how to assimilate this open source territory into their own shop, because it breaks the very foundation of their ideas, beliefs and business models.
Unlike humanity, the software world is not bound to the same "physical" territories that have caused man to consume his way into every culture that has come and gone and been assimilated. We have pushed out those that came before us and rebuild when we destroy... the "territories" as they exist in the virtual realm don't obey these rules. When you take money out of the equation and seperate from the world of Microsoft vs xyz corporation, Microsoft was able to dominate by conversion or persuasion or harrasment.
The OpenSource model breaks this cycle by taking money out of the equation. In effect creating a new territory (although not that new) that has come into a maturity of its own that now provides man with an alternative. Shall he continue flying with MS into a world that will eventually crumble at its own overweight blunders, or will they give a chance to evolution? A chance to experience a new territory?
Who knows? Only if we allow MS to continue their propoganda will they scare the masses away from exploring new territories, and therein lies the danger of Microsoft.. not in stifling the competition, but in stifling the territories we are allowed to play in.
thanks for listening... people have been trying to step all in my territory today... sigh.
I can't help but be baffled by how obvious it is that Microsoft embodies the Taker form of Mother Culture. We must keep the food under lock and key in order to make the world work for us. If we were to allow diversity in our culture, then we can't survive.... give me a break.
hmm... more consumerism to promote anti-consumerism... I think I heard a piece on NPR about a national non-consumption day where everyone should decide not to buy anything on that day and the group that was promoting this day also sells tons of propoganda on the issue. It will be difficult to ever escape being a consumer no matter how hard you try. Our society is just too in debt to this model of living.
Since they did name NCSU the open source university most of the on campus help materials have been converted away from the Solaris platform to RedHat with KDE/Gnome.
Anyway... the intro course at the school E115 is available online for independent study and all the training docs are pretty well done although there may be some ncsu specific stuff there.
I also used to have weekly seminars at one of my previous employers and I had my "students" purchase a copy of the best O'Reilly book, Essential System Administration by AELeen Frisch.
This book takes a broader look at how to accomplish the task you need on XYZ variant of UNIX/Linux. It is an easy to read book and covers 90% of administration/user needs.
I am also a wolfpac student and have been working with redhat regularly since 5.0 and slackware for much longer.
I believe that a piece of the picture is missing here. NCSU was working with RedHat as an alternative to the computing environment before the company started tipping their hats toward the project.
Whether or not redhat supports this movement I believe is irrelevant. Students in computer science and engineering fields have been using Linux whether the University and departments supported it or not. I think it is a good move on the part of the staff of the University to start acknowledging the use of Linux on campus and provide support in its use.
Many students may never have heard of RH and many slashdotters may find that unbelievable. However, when they sit down at a terminal, yes, they will see a red hat on their screen, but the exposure to using any distro of linux is better than none at all.
I have been using joker.com for a while. And with the Euro down, it is actually a little less than $12 per year of registration. I'm currently trying to transfer a domain from NSI and everything seems to be going pretty smoothly except for the fact that I had moved and updated my NSI handle but not my corenic handle... every detail counts. I just updated my corenic handle today so hopefully joker will proceed with the transfer.
Slashdot Mirror
The shaping at the end seems to be the hardest part...
another lorenz manifold for ya
They don't get to emotional over stupid things :)
Territorial distrust is the key concept here. Microsoft does not know how to assimilate this open source territory into their own shop, because it breaks the very foundation of their ideas, beliefs and business models.
Unlike humanity, the software world is not bound to the same "physical" territories that have caused man to consume his way into every culture that has come and gone and been assimilated. We have pushed out those that came before us and rebuild when we destroy... the "territories" as they exist in the virtual realm don't obey these rules. When you take money out of the equation and seperate from the world of Microsoft vs xyz corporation, Microsoft was able to dominate by conversion or persuasion or harrasment.
The OpenSource model breaks this cycle by taking money out of the equation. In effect creating a new territory (although not that new) that has come into a maturity of its own that now provides man with an alternative. Shall he continue flying with MS into a world that will eventually crumble at its own overweight blunders, or will they give a chance to evolution? A chance to experience a new territory?
Who knows? Only if we allow MS to continue their propoganda will they scare the masses away from exploring new territories, and therein lies the danger of Microsoft.. not in stifling the competition, but in stifling the territories we are allowed to play in.
thanks for listening... people have been trying to step all in my territory today... sigh.
I can't help but be baffled by how obvious it is that Microsoft embodies the Taker form of Mother Culture. We must keep the food under lock and key in order to make the world work for us. If we were to allow diversity in our culture, then we can't survive.... give me a break.
If you haven't, read Ishmael
hmm... more consumerism to promote anti-consumerism... I think I heard a piece on NPR about a national non-consumption day where everyone should decide not to buy anything on that day and the group that was promoting this day also sells tons of propoganda on the issue. It will be difficult to ever escape being a consumer no matter how hard you try. Our society is just too in debt to this model of living.
Since they did name NCSU the open source university most of the on campus help materials have been converted away from the Solaris platform to RedHat with KDE/Gnome.
Anyway... the intro course at the school E115 is available online for independent study and all the training docs are pretty well done although there may be some ncsu specific stuff there.
Introduction to computing environments
I also used to have weekly seminars at one of my previous employers and I had my "students" purchase a copy of the best O'Reilly book, Essential System Administration by AELeen Frisch.
This book takes a broader look at how to accomplish the task you need on XYZ variant of UNIX/Linux. It is an easy to read book and covers 90% of administration/user needs.
I am also a wolfpac student and have been working with redhat regularly since 5.0 and slackware for much longer.
I believe that a piece of the picture is missing here. NCSU was working with RedHat as an alternative to the computing environment before the company started tipping their hats toward the project.
Whether or not redhat supports this movement I believe is irrelevant. Students in computer science and engineering fields have been using Linux whether the University and departments supported it or not. I think it is a good move on the part of the staff of the University to start acknowledging the use of Linux on campus and provide support in its use.
Many students may never have heard of RH and many slashdotters may find that unbelievable. However, when they sit down at a terminal, yes, they will see a red hat on their screen, but the exposure to using any distro of linux is better than none at all.
I have been using joker.com for a while. And with the Euro down, it is actually a little less than $12 per year of registration. I'm currently trying to transfer a domain from NSI and everything seems to be going pretty smoothly except for the fact that I had moved and updated my NSI handle but not my corenic handle... every detail counts. I just updated my corenic handle today so hopefully joker will proceed with the transfer.