Linux never did or would have the opportuninty to control an entire industry and play hardball (think Al Capone) with pricing and exclusive deals, and Linux (or the Linux vendors) has the same constraints of playing under the laws set up govorning corporate behavior in the US as Microsoft -
If two basketball players are competing, and one fouls the other, and the ref calls him on it, it's still a fair game.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
. . . actually, I was kinda hoping for some jail time for Billy. $8 billion would buy a lot of cigs. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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In your dream-world that would be nice. Wouldn't it be nice if people got rich by being smart and working hard.
but this is the real world. And if I had excercised my options (not in MSFT, another tech company that got bumrushed in the panic) and sold them, the IRS would be cornholeing me all the way to Seattle by now. In fact, they are anyway.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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Thanks for your sympathy. whimper whimper. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
- - - What pisses me off is that my company's share prices were just slammed, for no frickin reason other than the fact that we are a software company. Sure, we do NT software, but we also do Solaris and HP-UX, SCO, etc. I lost over $150,000 today. That sucks. No frickin reason. We're not monopolists, we write damn good software, and we just had another killer quarter.
Now I understand why Seagate wanted to avoid this market insanity.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I'm not so sure about THIS case, but since there has been a ruling issued on this case, open the floodgates of all the independent and class-action lawsuits.
Microsoft may get some relief here on appeals, but they will now be hounded for years based on the outcome of this case. They made a grave error by not settling. Bend over, Bill. I've got a few CD's for you.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
porting to UNIX != Open Sourcing, that's true. But it does = incredibly rising support costs. Hire a guy who can troubleshoot QT on Win95, probably $20k a year. Hire a guy who can troubleshoot QT on Unix, and we're talking $50k minimum to hire someone who has ever touched IRIX or Solaris.
It does seem like Open Sourcing = lowering support costs, and increasing support revenue (because the only way you can make money off that model is by charging for support, which anyone can do since the source is open, so you have to open yourself to competition in that market too).
I wouldn't expect them to port QT to unix at all.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Holmes didn't give a rat's-ass whether the Earth orbited around the sun or vice-versa. Only things related to solving crimes. (All other information simply "wasted space" in the attic of his mind, he claimed).
So maybe we could put him to better use in coming up with more good evidence that Microsoft abused monopoly power. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's about a bazillion times easier (and faster) creating an alias in Mac OS than in Windows. (MacOS: highligh object, command-m - done) (Windows: um, if it's an executable, drag-n-drop it, never mind if you actually wanted to copy or move that file. If it's a document, right click it, wait oh, about 50 years for the CM to open, go down to NEW, wait about 200 years for the submenu to open, search through the submenu's list of a buzillion office document types and other bs that nobody uses to find "shortcut", click on that, wade through the damn wizard, and about 5000 years later, you have your freakin link^H^H^H^Halias^H^H^H^H^Hshortcut - oh yeah, there's the innovation, some genius at Microsoft looked up link or alias in a thesaurus and picked the word "shortcut").
No joke. Pentium 233, 64megs RAM, NT 4.0SP5. 5 seconds for CM on right click, a full 15 seconds for the damn submenu. Give me a fuckin break.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
While I would disagree with an excellence rating on any other element of TPM, I do think they win the Oscar for "Best fight choreography of all time". If nothing else.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I know that DNA tests were done on women in South America exhibiting the symptoms of the stigmata (spontaneous bleeding from the hands), and the blood WAS theirs, even though there was no evidence of a wound after the experience, and it was *not* menstrual blood. The conclusion was that somehow, either they had wounds that disappeared, or the blood came right through their skin.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Speaking of celebrity deaths, I read an article last week that they're doing DNA testing in Texas on the remains of James Dalton, who some claim was Jesse James. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Not just orbital perturbation, but tidal forces as well - a mass that size passing closely enough to smaller objects (like our earth, etc), could strip away atmosphere, dislodge oceans, cause earthquakes, or even break them up.
now THAT'S damage.
Ever see the classic sci fi film, "When Worlds Collide"?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
My company (insert name of large business software developer) DEFINATELY does this for betas, for many of our products. When we cut the CD's for betas, it's done individually per tester. There's usually a datafile that's fingerprinted with an internal "serial number". If we see a distribution of beta out there where it isn't supposed to be, we can definately track it. However, since our betas have expiration dates now, there isn't much piracy going on.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yes, but the standard text-entry application (simpletext) needs to:
1) be able to open reasonably sized files (no 16k limit, or whatever the limit is - I keep getting it confused with Notepad.exe - nyuck nyuck nyuck) 2) allow text and graphics to be seamlessly interwoven, similar to how *gasp* Adobe Illustrator works. (okay, 'cmon, it doesn't have to be all that feature-rich!)
Make something like that the default text editor of the system, make the file-format PDF (er Quartz?), and you've got a handy-dandy application that is suddenly able to do about half of what folks are always trying to get SimpleText to do (with various plugins, hacks and whatnot).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Intel has had a stranglehold on the CPU market for years now by simply defining "best CPU" as a function of higher MHz. Those that don't know better, buy the faster clock, the higher number.
So Microsoft has finally realized that the way to slay this "Open Source" dragon is to utilize it's best assets: Stupid consumers and FUD. If Open Source means one thing to the minority geek community, Microsoft can easily define it to mean something completely different to the mass market. \ Again, here, Microsoft is ripping off Apple, who was the FIRST major software company to pervert the definition of "open source" to it's own purposes.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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A small depression could be good about now?
You sound just like Alan Greenspan.
You want his job or something?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Linux never did or would have the opportuninty to control an entire industry and play hardball (think Al Capone) with pricing and exclusive deals, and Linux (or the Linux vendors) has the same constraints of playing under the laws set up govorning corporate behavior in the US as Microsoft -
If two basketball players are competing, and one fouls the other, and the ref calls him on it, it's still a fair game.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
. . . actually, I was kinda hoping for some jail time for Billy. $8 billion would buy a lot of cigs. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
In your dream-world that would be nice. Wouldn't it be nice if people got rich by being smart and working hard.
but this is the real world. And if I had excercised my options (not in MSFT, another tech company that got bumrushed in the panic) and sold them, the IRS would be cornholeing me all the way to Seattle by now. In fact, they are anyway.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Thanks for your sympathy. whimper whimper. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f4400/4469.htm
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What pisses me off is that my company's share prices were just slammed, for no frickin reason other than the fact that we are a software company. Sure, we do NT software, but we also do Solaris and HP-UX, SCO, etc. I lost over $150,000 today. That sucks. No frickin reason. We're not monopolists, we write damn good software, and we just had another killer quarter.
Now I understand why Seagate wanted to avoid this market insanity.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I'm not so sure about THIS case, but since there has been a ruling issued on this case, open the floodgates of all the independent and class-action lawsuits.
Microsoft may get some relief here on appeals, but they will now be hounded for years based on the outcome of this case. They made a grave error by not settling. Bend over, Bill. I've got a few CD's for you.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
oooh. How about power-down without asking?
Go back to DOS for that, because Windows and Linux certainly don't like that any better than Mac OS.
Why is that any different now?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
porting to UNIX != Open Sourcing, that's true. But it does = incredibly rising support costs. Hire a guy who can troubleshoot QT on Win95, probably $20k a year. Hire a guy who can troubleshoot QT on Unix, and we're talking $50k minimum to hire someone who has ever touched IRIX or Solaris.
It does seem like Open Sourcing = lowering support costs, and increasing support revenue (because the only way you can make money off that model is by charging for support, which anyone can do since the source is open, so you have to open yourself to competition in that market too).
I wouldn't expect them to port QT to unix at all.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Totally out of character.
.
Holmes didn't give a rat's-ass whether the Earth orbited around the sun or vice-versa. Only things related to solving crimes. (All other information simply "wasted space" in the attic of his mind, he claimed).
So maybe we could put him to better use in coming up with more good evidence that Microsoft abused monopoly power. .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
so it comes down to this, then.
Binary-only is better than nothing. . .
(I'm just funnin wid ya)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Too bad thanks to Intel's gross incompetence, that the hardware high-water mark fell far short of satisfactory.
(except for my G3 at home)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's about a bazillion times easier (and faster) creating an alias in Mac OS than in Windows. (MacOS: highligh object, command-m - done) (Windows: um, if it's an executable, drag-n-drop it, never mind if you actually wanted to copy or move that file. If it's a document, right click it, wait oh, about 50 years for the CM to open, go down to NEW, wait about 200 years for the submenu to open, search through the submenu's list of a buzillion office document types and other bs that nobody uses to find "shortcut", click on that, wade through the damn wizard, and about 5000 years later, you have your freakin link^H^H^H^Halias^H^H^H^H^Hshortcut - oh yeah, there's the innovation, some genius at Microsoft looked up link or alias in a thesaurus and picked the word "shortcut").
No joke. Pentium 233, 64megs RAM, NT 4.0SP5. 5 seconds for CM on right click, a full 15 seconds for the damn submenu. Give me a fuckin break.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
They wrote it in C instead of C++
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
nah, Saving Private Ryan was too "Braveheart" derivitive for my tastes.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
While I would disagree with an excellence rating on any other element of TPM, I do think they win the Oscar for "Best fight choreography of all time". If nothing else.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I know that DNA tests were done on women in South America exhibiting the symptoms of the stigmata (spontaneous bleeding from the hands), and the blood WAS theirs, even though there was no evidence of a wound after the experience, and it was *not* menstrual blood. The conclusion was that somehow, either they had wounds that disappeared, or the blood came right through their skin.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
DAMN! 12 years of child-support payments for nothing!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
How the hell would a tumor have testable normal DNA? Tumors develop because of serious DNA mutation.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Speaking of celebrity deaths, I read an article last week that they're doing DNA testing in Texas on the remains of James Dalton, who some claim was Jesse James. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
5-7-5? I thought it was supposed to be 3-7-5. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Not just orbital perturbation, but tidal forces as well - a mass that size passing closely enough to smaller objects (like our earth, etc), could strip away atmosphere, dislodge oceans, cause earthquakes, or even break them up.
now THAT'S damage.
Ever see the classic sci fi film, "When Worlds Collide"?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
My company (insert name of large business software developer) DEFINATELY does this for betas, for many of our products. When we cut the CD's for betas, it's done individually per tester. There's usually a datafile that's fingerprinted with an internal "serial number". If we see a distribution of beta out there where it isn't supposed to be, we can definately track it. However, since our betas have expiration dates now, there isn't much piracy going on.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yes, but the standard text-entry application (simpletext) needs to:
1) be able to open reasonably sized files (no 16k limit, or whatever the limit is - I keep getting it confused with Notepad.exe - nyuck nyuck nyuck)
2) allow text and graphics to be seamlessly interwoven, similar to how *gasp* Adobe Illustrator works. (okay, 'cmon, it doesn't have to be all that feature-rich!)
Make something like that the default text editor of the system, make the file-format PDF (er Quartz?), and you've got a handy-dandy application that is suddenly able to do about half of what folks are always trying to get SimpleText to do (with various plugins, hacks and whatnot).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yes, change the definitions.
Intel has had a stranglehold on the CPU market for years now by simply defining "best CPU" as a function of higher MHz. Those that don't know better, buy the faster clock, the higher number.
So Microsoft has finally realized that the way to slay this "Open Source" dragon is to utilize it's best assets: Stupid consumers and FUD. If Open Source means one thing to the minority geek community, Microsoft can easily define it to mean something completely different to the mass market.
\
Again, here, Microsoft is ripping off Apple, who was the FIRST major software company to pervert the definition of "open source" to it's own purposes.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".