It's still the case. You have to think of what Forbes is and represents. For them to mention linux is notable. They are saying "consider linux", even if they say, "not yet" or "never"... the control of public opinion is not in the answers you put below the headline (which is why often the content in an article has no facts), it's in the questions you choose to raise.
This is part of the theory of Manufacturing Consent in the book of the same name.
yes, thank you for mentioning SUNW... they actually think this can help them.
What they need is to return to good engineering... making the fastest, more efficient thing. Hmmm, does that sound like "reform your company around a slow language you cannot profit from"?
I don't think so. IBM was getting slow and dodgy. Aggressive in business? Owned the mini-market... ah, maybe, but why didn't they invent that market in the first place?
IBM needs competitors. IBM has always had a good reputation for engineering, they can win that battle, but the battle against themselves, being the only thing in the landscape. They need Oracle (too poop on (sorry, couldn't resist)).
I think I know where you are coming from, but what is surreal are the expectations of objectivity we all recieve regarding legal proceedings. The reality is it's always like this... investigations into the truth without absolute certainty.
However, a CVS tree 5-10 years old would be very hard to fake... there are many many traces and no automated process could convincingly modify the tree. If SCO tried to fudge up some evidence, they would really open themselves up and people do get caught doing that, quite often, because it's harder to fool people than you think. Like faking a photo, it might be easy to convince grandma and fool me, but in court they will look at the pixel levels and it's much much harder to really pull off.
this may mean that large OSS projects should form not-for-profit (or for-profit) corporations to own the code base, and that fund must be arranged to have a review process so that mistakes, if they happen, are in good faith and recoverable.
I'm not sure, but I think your intimating IBM is losing blood to this.
NO no no! IBM was, 20 years ago, THE computer company, in fact, THE company, period, of any kind. IBM was god. Then IBM was silly, old, irrelevant.
This is IBM coming back (like it or not, I'm not a cheer leader just an analyst, unpaid for my wise services as such...). IBM needs to throw some wieght around, but doesn't need to piss people off, they are the New IBM, not oldIBM. This is perfect for them --- everyone is rooting for them. They can save themselves and the whole industry will think they've saved not themselves, but the industry.
It's the kind of big-challenge you need when you are a big company, and indeed, as such things go it's probably rather small.
and people are forgetting (in their nerdlike literal mindedness) that Design means "The Color and Shape".
Jobs thought it was great but looked too traditional.
Jobs only likes making the insides well in order to justify the cool case he wants to use. Having said this... people really do like cool looking things... but what I wonder is... where does the Ginger we now know fit in? Is this the New Design, is this the design that was supposed to make us "shit our pants"? Or is this more like the original design they were discussing.
PS: I think they would have been wise to use Job's idea of rolling it out at Stanford and a few other universities... or maybe at Disney. Indeed, I think people could make money of of Ginger right now by renting them in resort areas, like along Waikiki where it's all but totally pointless to rent a car, but is useful to have something to zip you a couple miles down the road to dinner.
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it'll remain better than GIF.
aaahhh, that explains it. I just thought Hatch was really in tune with student in utah. Or on drugs.
I feel much less sympathetic for him now.
>Yes, and people have been using cars for tens of thousands of years, it was called running.
damn, I can't get this thing out of first gear.
Don't believe that propaganda about Wile getting beat all the time, that's just feel good stuff.
Remember... it wasn't the same Road Runner each time.
actually, what will happen is that the OS will seem crappier and crappier as people notice more and more crappy stuff in it.
All this time, the newbies are getting educated. So, don't worry, 1000 years from now it'll all be sorted out correctly.
It's still the case. You have to think of what Forbes is and represents. For them to mention linux is notable. They are saying "consider linux", even if they say, "not yet" or "never"... the control of public opinion is not in the answers you put below the headline (which is why often the content in an article has no facts), it's in the questions you choose to raise.
This is part of the theory of Manufacturing Consent in the book of the same name.
yes, thank you for mentioning SUNW... they actually think this can help them.
What they need is to return to good engineering... making the fastest, more efficient thing. Hmmm, does that sound like "reform your company around a slow language you cannot profit from"?
I don't think so. IBM was getting slow and dodgy. Aggressive in business? Owned the mini-market... ah, maybe, but why didn't they invent that market in the first place?
IBM needs competitors. IBM has always had a good reputation for engineering, they can win that battle, but the battle against themselves, being the only thing in the landscape. They need Oracle (too poop on (sorry, couldn't resist)).
i have been wonderwing, wtf is a "crunchie" anyway.
good point on details, but Caldera/SCO did "win the settlement" 200-300 mega$ was the estimate.
make that a million billion gazillion!
It means, "Finger Arts", it's about a bunch of people that thought it meant "Digital Arts".
sigh.
I think I know where you are coming from, but what is surreal are the expectations of objectivity we all recieve regarding legal proceedings. The reality is it's always like this... investigations into the truth without absolute certainty.
However, a CVS tree 5-10 years old would be very hard to fake... there are many many traces and no automated process could convincingly modify the tree. If SCO tried to fudge up some evidence, they would really open themselves up and people do get caught doing that, quite often, because it's harder to fool people than you think. Like faking a photo, it might be easy to convince grandma and fool me, but in court they will look at the pixel levels and it's much much harder to really pull off.
this may mean that large OSS projects should form not-for-profit (or for-profit) corporations to own the code base, and that fund must be arranged to have a review process so that mistakes, if they happen, are in good faith and recoverable.
really? I didn't know that was mysql's architecture. Interesting.
I think we'd be better off replacing the relational database with a file system.
Just a joke SQLiers, just a little joke. I know they are indispensible. Really. I believe you.
... you just got modded up for that...
explain?
oooh.... ninja pirates!
They did Microsoft already and it made them cocky, since wouldn't you know it... Microsoft was in the wrong.
the SEC (securities and exchange commission) is supposed to stop that sort of fraud.
I'm not sure, but I think your intimating IBM is losing blood to this.
NO no no! IBM was, 20 years ago, THE computer company, in fact, THE company, period, of any kind. IBM was god. Then IBM was silly, old, irrelevant.
This is IBM coming back (like it or not, I'm not a cheer leader just an analyst, unpaid for my wise services as such...). IBM needs to throw some wieght around, but doesn't need to piss people off, they are the New IBM, not oldIBM. This is perfect for them --- everyone is rooting for them. They can save themselves and the whole industry will think they've saved not themselves, but the industry.
It's the kind of big-challenge you need when you are a big company, and indeed, as such things go it's probably rather small.
I'm sorry it didn't really occur to me that this isn't an article, just a teaser and advertisement.
Well, they failed it, since my interest is not piqued sufficiently to inspire me to buy a book on this subject.
It was worth five minutes of slashdot time, that's about it.
PS: are you personally guarenteeing me the answer is in the book anyway? Or were you just implying that reading a book wouldn't occur to me?
and people are forgetting (in their nerdlike literal mindedness) that Design means "The Color and Shape".
Jobs thought it was great but looked too traditional.
Jobs only likes making the insides well in order to justify the cool case he wants to use. Having said this... people really do like cool looking things... but what I wonder is... where does the Ginger we now know fit in? Is this the New Design, is this the design that was supposed to make us "shit our pants"? Or is this more like the original design they were discussing.
PS: I think they would have been wise to use Job's idea of rolling it out at Stanford and a few other universities... or maybe at Disney. Indeed, I think people could make money of of Ginger right now by renting them in resort areas, like along Waikiki where it's all but totally pointless to rent a car, but is useful to have something to zip you a couple miles down the road to dinner.
because fuckups can't be fixed and people always fuck up.
what about solar powered electrolysis at Sea? You set it up and come back for the hydrogen.