The ONLY reason I don't like Solaris on x86 personally is lack of hardware support. This is one of the primary reason why they where talking about binary campatibility of drivers with Linux at one point in time..
With everyone coming up with ideas of WHY Sun decided to do this, no ones mentioned the primary reason why they would open it up.
Sun has NEVER made money off of Solaris
That's right.. Not one dime. It costs them more to continue development of the OS then they recoupe in licensing costs. Sure, the license costs can be a bit steep, but that's more to cover the COST OF SUPPORT, NOT the cost of development. It does them NO HARM to open up the source. It's been available to educational institutions for a long time.
That, IMHO, was the deciding factor. They get several things out of opening it.
A: Free press coverage.
B: Free additional hardware support, at least for the x86 tree.
C: A little bit of a cash flow for anyone who uses it to make money.
D: Possible bug fixes to things they've never seen before
The question is, why would they NOT open up the source more earlier? It costs them $0.00.
How do you think that Linux will 'absorb' to 'nice' parts of Solaris? Perhaps ideas of a way to do things, but certainly not source itself.
As for your reasoning, NOT EVERYONE is using Linux as a kernel to study. Just as many are using *BSD. Hell, Solaris source code was ALREADY AVAILABLE to educational institutions.
Gotta agree whole heartedly about the license, though..
If anything, this contest was a good experiment in what the internet can provide. It brought EVERYONE who submitted moves together to determine what would be a good move to make. This would simply not have been possible without the internet.
It's not giant Beawulf clusters that did it, it was a giant parallel processing human network that did it..
I'm speaking about life as I can see it. That happens to be from an American point of view. We also happen to be in one of the environments where the tech race exists. In those other situations, this isn't the case. I was using the Janitor post as an example of wanting more then one has. Not hings one would NEED, but things one would want. Much of what we consider technological innovation isn't things we NEED, it's things we WANT, and that drives progress.
That same janitor in the middle ages, as you mentioned, probrably wished like hell that eventually someone would come up with the vacume cleaner. Eventually, we did. He was still able to do his job.. NOT having the vacume cleaner didn't really affect his life. If they suddenly ceased to exist for most modern households, well, they'd suddenly be a necesity that's missing..
How is it a matter of survival? No one needs a Palm or Cell phone to eat. Not once has my laptop provided me shelter. My television, on the other hand, DOES help with sleep at times..;-P That same janitor can save up a couple bucks, and move to the far reaches of Alaska. He wants more then he has, but wants to be able to do it without giving it all up. That's greed. Not the 'kill the old uncle for his money' type of greed, but greed non the less. Remember.. In order for the Janitor to GET the higher paying job, someone else has to pay for it. That'd usually be millions of other janitors.
If I don't keep up with the current 'trends', big deal. If I don;t have the skills to keep up, BIG DEAL. I can always survive somewhere else. That's not it. We keep up becouse we want more. More data.. More speed in our computers.. More quality in our sound systems.. MoreMoreMore.
I can understand wanting to get out of a crime ridden neiborhood, and I guess that blows PART of what I meant away, but he doesn't STOP at getting out of the neiborhood. He get's the killer eyes. He NEEDS to keep on top of things to survive.
Yet, they provide really nothing of what we need to survive..
'Want' can come in different flavors, including the green kind. You 'want' a better job. You get a better job. Wait, next year, you 'want' yet another better job. Life would continue just fine with Joe as a Janitor, but he 'wants' more then he has.. Hence, he goes to college, learns, goes on the web, and finds a new job. But this is becouse of greed. A basic 'wanting'. That's what drives us. Someone will always be 'the janitor', and rarely will he simply want to be that.
3.A.i) NSI agrees that it will operate the registry for the Registry TLDs in accordance with this Agreement;
WHY keep NSI as the Registry? It's obviouse that they only want to attempt to find loopholes in the future to make money off of what they consider to me 'Proprietary data'. Granted, this section:
10. Rights in Data. Except as permitted by the Registrar License and Agreement, NSI shall not be entitled to claim any intellectual property rights in data in the registry supplied by or through registrars other than NSI. In the event that Registry Data is released from escrow under Section 7 or transferred to a Successor Registry under Section 22(D), any rights held by NSI as registry in the data shall automatically be licensed on a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, paid-up basis to the recipient of the data.
Most of the Technology that ends up coming out fills a nich, a want, a never ending quest for new stuff. We, as a species, are astounded by 'new stuff'.
Do you need the newest Palm? Hell no. But, do you WANT it.. Want ends up filling need. I WANT a site that can find data FOR me. Do I NEED it? No, I can pretty much 'get by' with what we have now. But once I have it, it enables me to do more.. Oh, wait, more wants.. I wish I could have a robot scoure the smart search site for things I like. OOhh.. the wants keep coming. The wants turn to needs once you rely on them..
How many people on the net can say they can find a file via archie? Or Veronica? They filled a want. They eventually became a need. When they filled the need, we had more wants, and hence, they are obsolete.
I'd say they couldn't defend it if it came down to it. I'm no law expert, but I know you can't simply patent a commonly used term and/or buisness practice, and have it hold up.
How can silly patents like these be prevented? Now that's a tough one. If you don't have patents, you get copycats by the thousands, and many, MANY crappy ripoffs. But, with patents, you get this..
That's what I gathered from the line: The format of using real world examples carries throughout the rest of the book. His writing style is much the same as his lectures at SANS. He draws you in to interact with the examples he has chosen. But it's even better to know that he uses REAL WORLD examples.. Good review.. Thanks..
Using REAL WORLD examples would really, REALLY make the book. It gives something to 'link' what your trying to grasp to real world implications. I think this is something many technical books on this topic lack.
This would be needed for everyday use, IMHO. Please, keep up the good work. I didn;t mean to put down FOX, it just isn't there as far as GUI builder for quickies, which I'd use it for..
He didn't get all THAT much of a speed improvment, and with MANY drawbacks.. Water was condensing on the cooler, and dropping into the oil, right onto the board..;-P
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Yep, it was.. See my previouse posts..
The ONLY reason I don't like Solaris on x86 personally is lack of hardware support. This is one of the primary reason why they where talking about binary campatibility of drivers with Linux at one point in time..
With everyone coming up with ideas of WHY Sun decided to do this, no ones mentioned the primary reason why they would open it up.
Sun has NEVER made money off of Solaris
That's right.. Not one dime. It costs them more to continue development of the OS then they recoupe in licensing costs. Sure, the license costs can be a bit steep, but that's more to cover the COST OF SUPPORT, NOT the cost of development. It does them NO HARM to open up the source. It's been available to educational institutions for a long time.
That, IMHO, was the deciding factor. They get several things out of opening it.
A: Free press coverage.
B: Free additional hardware support, at least for the x86 tree.
C: A little bit of a cash flow for anyone who uses it to make money.
D: Possible bug fixes to things they've never seen before
The question is, why would they NOT open up the source more earlier? It costs them $0.00.
Sun never makes money selling copies of Solaris. It cost more to develope the OS then they recoup via sales of the OS. Plain and simple.
How do you think that Linux will 'absorb' to 'nice' parts of Solaris? Perhaps ideas of a way to do things, but certainly not source itself.
As for your reasoning, NOT EVERYONE is using Linux as a kernel to study. Just as many are using *BSD. Hell, Solaris source code was ALREADY AVAILABLE to educational institutions.
Gotta agree whole heartedly about the license, though..
If anything, this contest was a good experiment in what the internet can provide. It brought EVERYONE who submitted moves together to determine what would be a good move to make. This would simply not have been possible without the internet.
It's not giant Beawulf clusters that did it, it was a giant parallel processing human network that did it..
In the stock release, yes. There was on update to these packages over a month ago to fix this problem.
A T1 line cut is peanuts compared to 4 OC-192 circuts.
Eventually, once we have Jabber out the door, we will support this type of cummunication. Check out www.jabber.org
He attempted to install OpenLinux 1.3? That was silly. That version is what, 2 years old?
I'm speaking about life as I can see it. That happens to be from an American point of view. We also happen to be in one of the environments where the tech race exists. In those other situations, this isn't the case. I was using the Janitor post as an example of wanting more then one has. Not hings one would NEED, but things one would want. Much of what we consider technological innovation isn't things we NEED, it's things we WANT, and that drives progress.
That same janitor in the middle ages, as you mentioned, probrably wished like hell that eventually someone would come up with the vacume cleaner. Eventually, we did. He was still able to do his job.. NOT having the vacume cleaner didn't really affect his life. If they suddenly ceased to exist for most modern households, well, they'd suddenly be a necesity that's missing..
How is it a matter of survival? No one needs a Palm or Cell phone to eat. Not once has my laptop provided me shelter. My television, on the other hand, DOES help with sleep at times.. ;-P That same janitor can save up a couple bucks, and move to the far reaches of Alaska. He wants more then he has, but wants to be able to do it without giving it all up. That's greed. Not the 'kill the old uncle for his money' type of greed, but greed non the less. Remember.. In order for the Janitor to GET the higher paying job, someone else has to pay for it. That'd usually be millions of other janitors.
If I don't keep up with the current 'trends', big deal. If I don;t have the skills to keep up, BIG DEAL. I can always survive somewhere else. That's not it. We keep up becouse we want more. More data.. More speed in our computers.. More quality in our sound systems.. MoreMoreMore.
I can understand wanting to get out of a crime ridden neiborhood, and I guess that blows PART of what I meant away, but he doesn't STOP at getting out of the neiborhood. He get's the killer eyes. He NEEDS to keep on top of things to survive.
Yet, they provide really nothing of what we need to survive..
Well, they'll never go below 10$.. ;-P 9$ goes to NSI for every domain, and that't leave them a buck profit..
IMHO, the post office was created for the physical world.. Something simular should be created for the electronic..
'Want' can come in different flavors, including the green kind. You 'want' a better job. You get a better job. Wait, next year, you 'want' yet another better job. Life would continue just fine with Joe as a Janitor, but he 'wants' more then he has.. Hence, he goes to college, learns, goes on the web, and finds a new job. But this is becouse of greed. A basic 'wanting'. That's what drives us. Someone will always be 'the janitor', and rarely will he simply want to be that.
I'm confused by this section in particular:
3.A.i) NSI agrees that it will operate the registry for the Registry TLDs in accordance with this Agreement;
WHY keep NSI as the Registry? It's obviouse that they only want to attempt to find loopholes in the future to make money off of what they consider to me 'Proprietary data'. Granted, this section:
10. Rights in Data. Except as permitted by the Registrar License and Agreement, NSI shall not be entitled to claim any intellectual property rights in data in the registry supplied by or through registrars other than NSI. In the event that Registry Data is released from escrow under Section 7 or transferred to a Successor Registry under Section 22(D), any rights held by NSI as registry in the data shall automatically be licensed on a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, paid-up basis to the recipient of the data.
KINDA deals with the issue.
Most of the Technology that ends up coming out fills a nich, a want, a never ending quest for new stuff. We, as a species, are astounded by 'new stuff'.
Do you need the newest Palm? Hell no. But, do you WANT it.. Want ends up filling need. I WANT a site that can find data FOR me. Do I NEED it? No, I can pretty much 'get by' with what we have now. But once I have it, it enables me to do more.. Oh, wait, more wants.. I wish I could have a robot scoure the smart search site for things I like. OOhh.. the wants keep coming. The wants turn to needs once you rely on them..
How many people on the net can say they can find a file via archie? Or Veronica? They filled a want. They eventually became a need. When they filled the need, we had more wants, and hence, they are obsolete.
I'd say they couldn't defend it if it came down to it. I'm no law expert, but I know you can't simply patent a commonly used term and/or buisness practice, and have it hold up.
How can silly patents like these be prevented? Now that's a tough one. If you don't have patents, you get copycats by the thousands, and many, MANY crappy ripoffs. But, with patents, you get this..
Ideas on how to FIX this problem?
That's what I gathered from the line: The format of using real world examples carries throughout the rest of the book. His writing style is much the same as his lectures at SANS. He draws you in to interact with the examples he has chosen. But it's even better to know that he uses REAL WORLD examples.. Good review.. Thanks..
Using REAL WORLD examples would really, REALLY make the book. It gives something to 'link' what your trying to grasp to real world implications. I think this is something many technical books on this topic lack.
I'm going to have to check this one out.
This would be needed for everyday use, IMHO. Please, keep up the good work. I didn;t mean to put down FOX, it just isn't there as far as GUI builder for quickies, which I'd use it for..
Yes, but not with a fully integrated RAD environment..
Last I read the page:
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http://www.accsdata.com/drffreeze/Dr%20Ffreeze.
He didn't get all THAT much of a speed improvment, and with MANY drawbacks.. Water was condensing on the cooler, and dropping into the oil, right onto the board..
Also check out:
http://www.wizard.com/users/scfoster/public_htm
Looks MUCH more promising..
This is an older article. The one that REALLY impressed me was when they tested three popular 3D cards in this pupy.. Take a look at this link
Then use an Open Product, which this isn't.. ;-P