Well, it's important to remember that in Rob's mind, if he didn't post the story, it doesn't count.
Re:Kind of emphasizes a major point.
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You're right. And this is another example of why the Corporation is the most negative-ly influential invention of the Industrial Revolution. Shielding the executives from responsibility, and prolonging the "life" of the organization do more to foster greed and profiteering than further innovation and competition.
I think you're right -- the majority of the software I use is OSS, (well, at home anyway), and I tend to look at the code only when there is a problem -- if everything works, I just keep chugging along as a happy user.
From my point of view, having access to the source lets me at least attempt to find the source of the problem, and if I can't fix it on my own, point it out to the community with the hopes that someone will fix it.
With closed-source software, that's not an option.
...leaded to a very rapid End Of Life for the Zaurus.
Yeah, it's too bad SHARP stopped making the Zaurus. And those people walking around with shiny new SL-C750's should seek psychological help for their delusions.
There are literally dozens of one-year MBA programs in the US, many on them highly respected. They are typically aimed at 'mid-career' professionals, which Alan definitely is.
Did you even bother to look before you commented?
Oh, wait a minute. This is Slashdot. You probably think that the extra year it is taking you to finish High School is 'pretty average'.
Remember, though, that the Zaurus _is not_ and PDA -- it is a PMT, or "Personal Mobile Tool".
Semantic distinction or SHARP marketing garbage? A little of both -- but indicative of SHARP's awareness of the problem you mentioned or taking on other PDA's in their own segment.
I use my Zaurus as a mini-workstation and network troubleshooting tool. And to play games, browse the web, take notes, SSH into servers....
And really, the Sony Walkman (cassette) was the walkman of the 80's -- in the 90's we had portable CD players. The iPod (and its imitators) are the walkman of this decade -- maybe by the 10's we will consider a "walkman" anything that does _all_ the things this PSP does?
0. Business owners will replace humans with robots only when it will decrease their cost or increase their volume of sales.
1. If robots begin to take over menial, lower-paid jobs, large numbers of people will be put out of work.
2. If large numbers of people are unemployed, they will be less able to purchase consumer goods & services.
3. Business's sales volume will decrease as unemployment rises.
Hence, replacing humans with automated systems could have an effect directly opposite that intended by the business.
Fortunately, business owners are smart enough to think these few steps ahead. So the question becomes, How many jobs can we replace with robots/automated systems? How will these displaced laborers make a living? Can this process be carried out indefinitely, until no humans are employed in repetitive, manual tasks (such as programming;P)?
What about a rating system based on whata you listened to, how much, and when?
Just thinking out loud here (er, well, I can hear the keyboard) -- but as a former experimental psychologist, the idea of an empirically-derived rating system has mucho appeal to me.
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So yeah, they may lean toward class-action type torts.
But does that mean Big Chemical Companies never do wrong? That no one is ever harmed by exposure to their products? Or just that their victims should "suck it up" and live with it?
That is the key point behind all of this: Microsoft is morally bankrupt.
You've summed up MS's problem in fewer words than I could have. I completely agree.
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I can't say I agree with all your points here -- but I, too have had suspicions about where this case could eventually lead.
Imagine SCO wins. IBM's AIX license is stripped away. Linux is determined to be "inextricably tainted," and, therefore, a de facto derivative work of System V -- so SCO gets it. This is bad enough.
What scares me is the angle I see the US gov't taking: "IBM & all you crazy hackers out there in the OSS community have been supporting terrorism by providing trade secrets and encryption and doctored photos of Natalie Portman to folks in the Middle East who don't like us exerting our God-given right as White Christian Males to steal their oil and sell them Hollywood movies! You must now install the latest version of Windows (Windows BO for "Bend Over") and submit to constant monitoring of all your online activities, to go along with the imminent monitoring of everyone's offline activities. Ah Hell, let's just monitor everyone. And randomly destroy people's computers so that they have to buy new ones. Hey, that will stimulate the economy, won't it?"
I think that may work -- If I get a chance next week, I may give it a try to. Although, I finally got OpenZaurus installed & configured the way I wanted (including/opt mounted on ext2-formatted sd) and I am loathe to change it again.
I'd like to see that -- but I've looked, with no luck.
The NetBSD/hpcarm page lists the iPaq H3600 as a supported model -- it's at least got the same CPU as the SL-5500. I'd give it a shot on my Zaurus, but I haven't figured out how to load the kernel -- all the bootloaders are written with WinCE in mind!
Whether or not SCO wins, this will be a wakeup call. Before accepting GNU tools for use in the business, managers are now going to be asking, "how can we be certain that this code is legit?" It is a very valid question.
But how does the manager know that his company's internally-developed applications weren't just cut-and-pasted together by his developers? Without seeing the source, and actually comparing it to every relevant code snippet ever published or released under any license, how can we tell that any piece of software is not, at least in part, a derivative work?
SCO has opened more than a can of worms here -- it's more like a tube of Pandora's extra-whitening toothpaste. These allegations could lead to code scrutiny for the entire industry -- not just open-source developers -- and a desire for some sort of guarantee that the software products are built with "compliant code". How will SCO's latest product fare under that kind of investigation?
It's not hard to imagine a time where CIOs or CEOs are required to 'sign off' on their source code of their products, as the CEOs and CFOs are required to post-Enron.
And I wonder who would be put in charge of examining all this code? I hope it would not be another Microsoft-in-sheep's-clothing like the BSA.
The only shitty part is you'll just be tossed into the Hudson River because you and your socialist family members don't have the money for a proper funeral and burial.
You should have called them capitalists --
Instead, you sound like an angry, unwashed, trying-to-rationalize-my-meager-salary (25k Canadian is what, minimum wage in CA?)
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Man, with this many mistakes, it's almost as if the whole thing was staged!
Well, it's important to remember that in Rob's mind, if he didn't post the story, it doesn't count.
You're right. And this is another example of why the Corporation is the most negative-ly influential invention of the Industrial Revolution. Shielding the executives from responsibility, and prolonging the "life" of the organization do more to foster greed and profiteering than further innovation and competition.
I think you're right -- the majority of the software I use is OSS, (well, at home anyway), and I tend to look at the code only when there is a problem -- if everything works, I just keep chugging along as a happy user.
From my point of view, having access to the source lets me at least attempt to find the source of the problem, and if I can't fix it on my own, point it out to the community with the hopes that someone will fix it.
With closed-source software, that's not an option.
Of course, California is the biggest state.
Well, only in terms of population -- ever seen a map of Texas... Or Alaska?
"The FSF is not portrayed in a positive light, so you may want to skip reading this"
That's right -- only read stories you agree with! You'll feel right all the time, and you'll never have to think twice about anything!
There are literally dozens of one-year MBA programs in the US, many on them highly respected. They are typically aimed at 'mid-career' professionals, which Alan definitely is.
Did you even bother to look before you commented?
Oh, wait a minute. This is Slashdot. You probably think that the extra year it is taking you to finish High School is 'pretty average'.
Remember, though, that the Zaurus _is not_ and PDA -- it is a PMT, or "Personal Mobile Tool".
Semantic distinction or SHARP marketing garbage? A little of both -- but indicative of SHARP's awareness of the problem you mentioned or taking on other PDA's in their own segment.
I use my Zaurus as a mini-workstation and network troubleshooting tool. And to play games, browse the web, take notes, SSH into servers....
For PDA stuff, I use a PDA
And besides, it was SHARP who needed the license, not the consumer.
Actually, the T-shirt should say:
"I bought a license from SCO and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"
And really, the Sony Walkman (cassette) was the walkman of the 80's -- in the 90's we had portable CD players. The iPod (and its imitators) are the walkman of this decade -- maybe by the 10's we will consider a "walkman" anything that does _all_ the things this PSP does?
He should have acted like he _intended_ to look like an idiot -- instead of being laughed AT, he could have been the next Chris Farley!
0. Business owners will replace humans with robots only when it will decrease their cost or increase their volume of sales.
;P)?
1. If robots begin to take over menial, lower-paid jobs, large numbers of people will be put out of work.
2. If large numbers of people are unemployed, they will be less able to purchase consumer goods & services.
3. Business's sales volume will decrease as unemployment rises.
Hence, replacing humans with automated systems could have an effect directly opposite that intended by the business.
Fortunately, business owners are smart enough to think these few steps ahead. So the question becomes, How many jobs can we replace with robots/automated systems? How will these displaced laborers make a living? Can this process be carried out indefinitely, until no humans are employed in repetitive, manual tasks (such as programming
What about a rating system based on whata you listened to, how much, and when?
Just thinking out loud here (er, well, I can hear the keyboard) -- but as a former experimental psychologist, the idea of an empirically-derived rating system has mucho appeal to me.
According to the PDF:
So yeah, they may lean toward class-action type torts.
But does that mean Big Chemical Companies never do wrong? That no one is ever harmed by exposure to their products? Or just that their victims should "suck it up" and live with it?
Hear hear!
You've summed up MS's problem in fewer words than I could have. I completely agree.
I can't say I agree with all your points here -- but I, too have had suspicions about where this case could eventually lead.
Imagine SCO wins. IBM's AIX license is stripped away. Linux is determined to be "inextricably tainted," and, therefore, a de facto derivative work of System V -- so SCO gets it. This is bad enough.
What scares me is the angle I see the US gov't taking: "IBM & all you crazy hackers out there in the OSS community have been supporting terrorism by providing trade secrets and encryption and doctored photos of Natalie Portman to folks in the Middle East who don't like us exerting our God-given right as White Christian Males to steal their oil and sell them Hollywood movies! You must now install the latest version of Windows (Windows BO for "Bend Over") and submit to constant monitoring of all your online activities, to go along with the imminent monitoring of everyone's offline activities. Ah Hell, let's just monitor everyone. And randomly destroy people's computers so that they have to buy new ones. Hey, that will stimulate the economy, won't it?"
I think that may work -- If I get a chance next week, I may give it a try to. Although, I finally got OpenZaurus installed & configured the way I wanted (including /opt mounted on ext2-formatted sd) and I am loathe to change it again.
I'd like to see that -- but I've looked, with no luck.
The NetBSD/hpcarm page lists the iPaq H3600 as a supported model -- it's at least got the same CPU as the SL-5500. I'd give it a shot on my Zaurus, but I haven't figured out how to load the kernel -- all the bootloaders are written with WinCE in mind!
If you dig a little, I think there is a version of the bootloader for LinuxSH3 that can be used to boot NetBSD.
Good luck!
But how does the manager know that his company's internally-developed applications weren't just cut-and-pasted together by his developers? Without seeing the source, and actually comparing it to every relevant code snippet ever published or released under any license, how can we tell that any piece of software is not, at least in part, a derivative work?
SCO has opened more than a can of worms here -- it's more like a tube of Pandora's extra-whitening toothpaste. These allegations could lead to code scrutiny for the entire industry -- not just open-source developers -- and a desire for some sort of guarantee that the software products are built with "compliant code". How will SCO's latest product fare under that kind of investigation?
It's not hard to imagine a time where CIOs or CEOs are required to 'sign off' on their source code of their products, as the CEOs and CFOs are required to post-Enron.
And I wonder who would be put in charge of examining all this code? I hope it would not be another Microsoft-in-sheep's-clothing like the BSA.
You shook your stick at one platform. So far you've beat Novell.
Check out these books by Robyn M. Dawes, another heavywieght in the emerging field of 'decision science.'
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
The only shitty part is you'll just be tossed into the Hudson River because you and your socialist family members don't have the money for a proper funeral and burial.
You should have called them capitalists --
Instead, you sound like an angry, unwashed, trying-to-rationalize-my-meager-salary (25k Canadian is what, minimum wage in CA?)