Seeing as OSS is simply beating the pants of them when it comes to ACTUAL and PERCIEVED security and bug resolution, I think that no matter how good there effort MS puts forth, the OSS community could do a LOT less and still beat them senseless.
OSS is not a competitor like ANY software company has ever seen. You have a mix of hobbyist and corporate producers all interested in the best common experience. The only common interest in Windows CORE developement is strictly in microsoft's org. That is how they make their money and that is why they will (future tense) not be able to compete.
Adding an elegance team will not make their lack of resources any different. They simply cannot compete vs the world.
As far as I can tell Novell admitted that they gave the right to collect License fees from Unix. I personally don't see what it has to do with copywright, IP or trademark. SCO is essentially a bill collector in this contract so I would assume that this deal could be revoked whenever. So, I guess my question is if this is indeed the case, why isn't Novell yanking the contract NOW?
What is the oddest thing to me is that compared to the tech industry they are paupers. The tech industry is very responsive to customers, because if they don't someone else will. Yet even with this, it seems the entertainment industry has a lot more political clout. What's wrong with this picture?
When you are trying a civil case a DA is not involved. This is a individual to individual proceeding, whether they are a person or a corporation. Where it is being tried does not change the type of case. The supreme court heres LOTS of civil cases, it is just testing their constitutional merit typically.
I wouldn't call it desperate. I think they are simply dodery simpletons that wouldn't understand technology if it bit them on the ass. The music industry used to have that problem and then they made business decisions to make themselves irrelevant. The movie industry has some room for more than a few years before they can decide they want to be irrelevant as well.
Just when I thought I owned the hunk of foil and plastic siting inside my player, I'm wrong and it's use makes me a thief. At least their legal mouthpiece keeps the consitent theme of criminalizing their customers.
Java came out of it's shell a few years back and decided it wanted to be an enterprise platform. J2EE has the enviable position of being a cohesive framework that is highly portable and covers large swaths of business computing. This is a Good Thing.
Microsoft liked this idea and saw the benifits of an abstracted enterprise vm and came out.NET. To compete with java, they released the specifications for the vm and additionaly a c++/java hybrid called c#.
Now, I don't know everything about your programming situation, but I can tell you that regardless of what you think, some of the largest software capitalists in the world believe in all the above technologies. The all plan on make large dollars off it. Perl cannot do this. PHP can't do this. C can't do this. (actually all of them could but they won't)
They made this thing years ago called the internet, where speed of typing outwieghed reviewing your content. It happpens on IM's, Usenet, and (I'll be damned)./? Who would've thunk it.
I know more about any given subject because I find it difficult to understand, and I as the brilliance that brings light into this world find it difficult that it is above you mere mortals.
Things that I think have a higher form of truth, since I am working on a piece of paper that tells me I could be write.
When I have nothing enlightening to say my belittling will stand in to show my virtous nature. You peons could not get how wrong you are.
If philosphy is boring to you, in any incarnate representation, then you are not a philospher as much as a critic. That has merits but it is not the same thing. Those who can't produce complain.
You do not accomplish things with philosphy, that is a fallacy. Philosphy is a process of thought, nothing more, nothing less. This also applies to arrogance.
I find that regularly people apply subjective opinion to objective experience, then assuming some authority in the matter. This is the definition of pretentious. What makes a thought proviking movie does not mean you have to be bored silly or be unable to follow the content. I suggest Mullholland Drive for those who believe that.
I found Matrix 1 and 2 to be engaging and thought stimulating. My wife wouldn't even watch the second movie. I do not think that my wifes movie interests are incorrect, nor do I think mine are correct. I simply enjoyed it on many levels.
Lastly, any meaning I did or didn't receive is above anyones judgement since it is only meaningful in that way to me.
P.S. I do not own an XBOX, but I do own a few books.
I am tired of people being tired of people. Therefore I am tired of myself. I am tired of my own inane ramblings of things such as why this or logical flaw that. I really need to marginalize my own realizations as being only of my own self and having no proper meaning where the greats have decided for me what is deserved to be thought. I should quit self-introspection and go pay someone fistfuls of cash to tell me what I should think and why what I have been thinking is wrong.
I am glad you have pointed out to me the fruitlessness of thinking for myself when there are so many who think more "correctly" then me.
Unfortunately that covers everything that comes out of hollywood, so I assume the matrix would be additionally stupid and ill considered.
Do you have a scale, maybe like the ricter where it is orders of magnitude difference. A 1 would represent barely noticable stupidity and trashiness and a 5 would repesent New Jersey.
Would your scale account for either your complete lack of any constructive and well thought out criticisms. How would you handle the issues of you being neither a philospher or science fiction writer. I would asume you have thought through the cornicopia of/.ers that might just consider this a personnely meaningful work that is the best sci/fi in the past decade. But rereading your commentary I feel assured you put a lot of work in that statement and are not just fishing for arguments.
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Seeing as OSS is simply beating the pants of them when it comes to ACTUAL and PERCIEVED security and bug resolution, I think that no matter how good there effort MS puts forth, the OSS community could do a LOT less and still beat them senseless.
OSS is not a competitor like ANY software company has ever seen. You have a mix of hobbyist and corporate producers all interested in the best common experience. The only common interest in Windows CORE developement is strictly in microsoft's org. That is how they make their money and that is why they will (future tense) not be able to compete.
Adding an elegance team will not make their lack of resources any different. They simply cannot compete vs the world.
As far as I can tell Novell admitted that they gave the right to collect License fees from Unix. I personally don't see what it has to do with copywright, IP or trademark. SCO is essentially a bill collector in this contract so I would assume that this deal could be revoked whenever. So, I guess my question is if this is indeed the case, why isn't Novell yanking the contract NOW?
What is the oddest thing to me is that compared to the tech industry they are paupers. The tech industry is very responsive to customers, because if they don't someone else will. Yet even with this, it seems the entertainment industry has a lot more political clout. What's wrong with this picture?
I guess that's why IANAL. Good show!
When you are trying a civil case a DA is not involved. This is a individual to individual proceeding, whether they are a person or a corporation. Where it is being tried does not change the type of case. The supreme court heres LOTS of civil cases, it is just testing their constitutional merit typically.
Violation of trade secrets is a civil offense.
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I wouldn't call it desperate. I think they are simply dodery simpletons that wouldn't understand technology if it bit them on the ass. The music industry used to have that problem and then they made business decisions to make themselves irrelevant. The movie industry has some room for more than a few years before they can decide they want to be irrelevant as well.
Just when I thought I owned the hunk of foil and plastic siting inside my player, I'm wrong and it's use makes me a thief. At least their legal mouthpiece keeps the consitent theme of criminalizing their customers.
Java came out of it's shell a few years back and decided it wanted to be an enterprise platform. J2EE has the enviable position of being a cohesive framework that is highly portable and covers large swaths of business computing. This is a Good Thing.
.NET. To compete with java, they released the specifications for the vm and additionaly a c++/java hybrid called c#.
Microsoft liked this idea and saw the benifits of an abstracted enterprise vm and came out
Now, I don't know everything about your programming situation, but I can tell you that regardless of what you think, some of the largest software capitalists in the world believe in all the above technologies. The all plan on make large dollars off it. Perl cannot do this. PHP can't do this. C can't do this. (actually all of them could but they won't)
They have. It's called J#. It's microsofts answer to a question nobody asked.
Lip service or not, these developers have in their job description to be scapegoats. That is not an enviable position.
The same people you hate making IT decisions in your neck of the woods are making them in the healthcare industry, they are just a lot more liable.
They made this thing years ago called the internet, where speed of typing outwieghed reviewing your content. It happpens on IM's, Usenet, and (I'll be damned) ./? Who would've thunk it.
Stalyn comments in a nutshell:
I know more about any given subject because I find it difficult to understand, and I as the brilliance that brings light into this world find it difficult that it is above you mere mortals.
Things that I think have a higher form of truth, since I am working on a piece of paper that tells me I could be write.
When I have nothing enlightening to say my belittling will stand in to show my virtous nature. You peons could not get how wrong you are.
If philosphy is boring to you, in any incarnate representation, then you are not a philospher as much as a critic. That has merits but it is not the same thing. Those who can't produce complain.
working with play-dough
You do not accomplish things with philosphy, that is a fallacy. Philosphy is a process of thought, nothing more, nothing less. This also applies to arrogance.
Philosophy is a practice and its very much like building a rocket.
You try over and over again without a clue of what you are doing till you eventually get it right?
I find that regularly people apply subjective opinion to objective experience, then assuming some authority in the matter. This is the definition of pretentious. What makes a thought proviking movie does not mean you have to be bored silly or be unable to follow the content. I suggest Mullholland Drive for those who believe that.
I found Matrix 1 and 2 to be engaging and thought stimulating. My wife wouldn't even watch the second movie. I do not think that my wifes movie interests are incorrect, nor do I think mine are correct. I simply enjoyed it on many levels.
Lastly, any meaning I did or didn't receive is above anyones judgement since it is only meaningful in that way to me.
P.S. I do not own an XBOX, but I do own a few books.
I am tired of people being tired of people. Therefore I am tired of myself. I am tired of my own inane ramblings of things such as why this or logical flaw that. I really need to marginalize my own realizations as being only of my own self and having no proper meaning where the greats have decided for me what is deserved to be thought. I should quit self-introspection and go pay someone fistfuls of cash to tell me what I should think and why what I have been thinking is wrong.
I am glad you have pointed out to me the fruitlessness of thinking for myself when there are so many who think more "correctly" then me.
Oddly enough, a inebriated homeless man may have more interesting things to say then most /.ers
Unfortunately that covers everything that comes out of hollywood, so I assume the matrix would be additionally stupid and ill considered.
/.ers that might just consider this a personnely meaningful work that is the best sci/fi in the past decade. But rereading your commentary I feel assured you put a lot of work in that statement and are not just fishing for arguments.
Do you have a scale, maybe like the ricter where it is orders of magnitude difference. A 1 would represent barely noticable stupidity and trashiness and a 5 would repesent New Jersey.
Would your scale account for either your complete lack of any constructive and well thought out criticisms. How would you handle the issues of you being neither a philospher or science fiction writer. I would asume you have thought through the cornicopia of
This is probably what you are looking for. I use it on system that I am forced to use Win32.
Ah no... It is 43 million. That is a couple of orders of magnitude difference. My source is not mangled
Official complaint from SCO says that it is David Boies who represented other corporations against microsoft at the Microsoft anti-trust suit.