We've had Dish Network for several years, and during intense thunderstorms, we do get brief signal outages. None have lasted for more than 10-15 minutes, and are a minor inconvenience over the satellite experience (interactive menus, etc.), which I greatly prefer over when I last had cable.
Or, in more formal terms, do you have a community? For all but the smallest utilities, it would seem to me that successful projects have a community of users surrounding it. A community shows that you're scratching other people's itches as well as your own, and that it's a current itch that's being scratched. JMO, -Dave
I'll chime in an agreement here. I started a project, currently have a few hundred downloads, and have received maybe half a dozen offers for help. I point them toward the design docs I wrote, and with one exception, they have all disappeared. I added Mr. Exception as a contributor, and then he disappeared. Well intended, all of them, but no patches to show for it.
I fully understand your apprehension, I was worried about that, too, but it's become pretty much a non-issue.
(And skip the beer and marijuana. They don't really help.)
Never said that Linux/Unix progs didn't have security problems. It just seems to me that commercial software has a strong incentive to ship when it's "good enough" rather than when it's right, and having the source means that if I understood security (which I don't) I could verify the code that I'm running, and supply fixes to the community (which does happen, and apparently somewhat frequently from the looks of it).
And in the commercial world, the 800-lb gorilla just came out and said, "uh, maybe we'd better start paying attention to security after all, huh?" Sounds like a systemic deficiency, to me.
``In fact it's probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and the code is available. So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS becomes more common and popular.''--Wishful thinking from McAfee
Yeah, very much wishful thinking. The truth seems to be that the more closed the source is, the more careless the coders get, and the more security holes and virus hooks appear. Sorry, McAfee, Linux geeks aim to make you irrelevant.
Hmm, okay, a breakup. But what happens to the other nasty MS practises, like charging hardware companies for Windows based on machines sold, rather than for copies of Windows sold on those machines? To me, that seems much more anti-competitive than bundling IE...
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You're kidding, right? This has ALWAYS been Microsoft's business model. They have NO OTHER business model. This is 32nd verse, same as the 31st.
Indeed, thanks for that. Why, pray tell, doesn't eclipse.org do this?
We've had Dish Network for several years, and during intense thunderstorms, we do get brief signal outages. None have lasted for more than 10-15 minutes, and are a minor inconvenience over the satellite experience (interactive menus, etc.), which I greatly prefer over when I last had cable.
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Or, in more formal terms, do you have a community? For all but the smallest utilities, it would seem to me that successful projects have a community of users surrounding it. A community shows that you're scratching other people's itches as well as your own, and that it's a current itch that's being scratched. JMO, -Dave
I'll chime in an agreement here. I started a project, currently have a few hundred downloads, and have received maybe half a dozen offers for help. I point them toward the design docs I wrote, and with one exception, they have all disappeared. I added Mr. Exception as a contributor, and then he disappeared. Well intended, all of them, but no patches to show for it.
I fully understand your apprehension, I was worried about that, too, but it's become pretty much a non-issue.
(And skip the beer and marijuana. They don't really help.)
Dave
And in the commercial world, the 800-lb gorilla just came out and said, "uh, maybe we'd better start paying attention to security after all, huh?" Sounds like a systemic deficiency, to me.
``In fact it's probably easier to write a virus for Linux because it's open source and the code is available. So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS becomes more common and popular.''--Wishful thinking from McAfee
Yeah, very much wishful thinking. The truth seems to be that the more closed the source is, the more careless the coders get, and the more security holes and virus hooks appear. Sorry, McAfee, Linux geeks aim to make you irrelevant.
Hmm, okay, a breakup. But what happens to the other nasty MS practises, like charging hardware companies for Windows based on machines sold, rather than for copies of Windows sold on those machines? To me, that seems much more anti-competitive than bundling IE...
Dave
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