Bill Gates was previously the wealthiest man on the planet. The international drug trade is small potatos compared to him.
We know how law applies to Microsoft. By the time the government decides it's illegal to force I.E. on people windows ME, windows 2000, and windows XP have hit the market.
Legislation cannot move as fast as their product cycle, ergo Microsoft need not worry about the law.
What about Microsoft's responsibility toward their users? What about their responsibility towards society?
What responsibility? They have no responsibility to their users, only their paying customers and stockholders. Microsoft's responsibility to society is satisfied every April 15th.
They do have the responsibility to act honestly.
No they don't. You've obviously never negotiated an enterprise volume license agreement with Microsoft.
Unfortunately, that's not how it works in reality. Governments *might* mandate documents be in an open format, which Microsoft is (We made it XML! That's open, duh!). Nothing changes except it's slightly-less of a pain in the arse to deal with office documents now.
Everyone here needs understand: everything Microsoft does is about making more money. That's their responsibility to their stockholders. They have no reason whatsoever to expend above and beyond the baseline compatibility requirements.
I can assure you they won't care of ODF documents don't work quite right in Sharepoint.
nVidia is a fairly large company. They most likely don't, and shouldn't spend resources on things that don't make them money. They have responsibilities to their shareholders.
But stop and think about it for a second. The new apple computers are almost exclusively using apple hardware, and the core there is BSD. Medical imaging equipment commonly runs on *nix|bsd systems and requires high end 3D modeling. Render farms commonly run on *nix|bsd. Finally, most research and super computer centers prefer to run on *nix|bsd over windows.
I think there's a larger market for 3D support within open source / *nix|bsd operating systems than most gamers think. Video Games are only a small piece of the market when you're talking about non-windows operating systems.
June 23rd, 2004
Michael Isikoff and Newsweek Magazine Deceive the Public About Fahrenheit 9/11
This link off the main Michael Moore wesite gives me a 404 Error. Target URL is: isikoff.php.
Could anyone scrounge up some content from this web location? I'm curious to see what was said on that webpage, and why it might be taken down at the moment.
-Silas
Emailing the developer is fine for users, but an enterprise can't run their production lines on this support model.
When crunch time hits, an enterprise needs a solution, and needs it *immediately*. This is what support is all about. A large corproation with kernel trouble pays for the right to ask RedHat to fix their problem, and hopefully this is what happens.
We run RedHat enterprise at work. There's an NFS bug where the cookies exchanged are only 8 bytes in Linux, but they should be arbitrary. Darwin expects them to be longer. We've paid for the right to ask RedHat to incorporate the patches for this into their enterprise kernel packages.
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You've gotta be kidding.
Bill Gates was previously the wealthiest man on the planet. The international drug trade is small potatos compared to him.
We know how law applies to Microsoft. By the time the government decides it's illegal to force I.E. on people windows ME, windows 2000, and windows XP have hit the market.
Legislation cannot move as fast as their product cycle, ergo Microsoft need not worry about the law.
What responsibility? They have no responsibility to their users, only their paying customers and stockholders. Microsoft's responsibility to society is satisfied every April 15th.
No they don't. You've obviously never negotiated an enterprise volume license agreement with Microsoft.
You're using the word "should" way too much.
Welcome to the real world.
Unfortunately, that's not how it works in reality. Governments *might* mandate documents be in an open format, which Microsoft is (We made it XML! That's open, duh!). Nothing changes except it's slightly-less of a pain in the arse to deal with office documents now.
Everyone here needs understand: everything Microsoft does is about making more money. That's their responsibility to their stockholders. They have no reason whatsoever to expend above and beyond the baseline compatibility requirements.
I can assure you they won't care of ODF documents don't work quite right in Sharepoint.
nVidia is a fairly large company. They most likely don't, and shouldn't spend resources on things that don't make them money. They have responsibilities to their shareholders.
But stop and think about it for a second. The new apple computers are almost exclusively using apple hardware, and the core there is BSD. Medical imaging equipment commonly runs on *nix|bsd systems and requires high end 3D modeling. Render farms commonly run on *nix|bsd. Finally, most research and super computer centers prefer to run on *nix|bsd over windows.
I think there's a larger market for 3D support within open source / *nix|bsd operating systems than most gamers think. Video Games are only a small piece of the market when you're talking about non-windows operating systems.
June 23rd, 2004 Michael Isikoff and Newsweek Magazine Deceive the Public About Fahrenheit 9/11 This link off the main Michael Moore wesite gives me a 404 Error. Target URL is: isikoff.php. Could anyone scrounge up some content from this web location? I'm curious to see what was said on that webpage, and why it might be taken down at the moment. -Silas
Emailing the developer is fine for users, but an enterprise can't run their production lines on this support model.
When crunch time hits, an enterprise needs a solution, and needs it *immediately*. This is what support is all about. A large corproation with kernel trouble pays for the right to ask RedHat to fix their problem, and hopefully this is what happens.
We run RedHat enterprise at work. There's an NFS bug where the cookies exchanged are only 8 bytes in Linux, but they should be arbitrary. Darwin expects them to be longer. We've paid for the right to ask RedHat to incorporate the patches for this into their enterprise kernel packages.
Now if they would, I'd be a happy man.
Depends on the OS you do it from. You can logically think of this technology as 2 computers from a network perspective.