If users need to share data between computers, there are these newfangled technologies called "CD-R", "USB Key" and "Email" that would probably work pretty well.
Are you nuts? The spreadsheet on your desktop might contain important customer data, sensitive personal communication, or god knows work. And Google is taking it upon itself to upload it, unencrypted, over the internet.
And uploading my data to a server controlled by a company that employs some of the most talented people in data mining is just asking for trouble.
Google maps pictures rock, but the maps suck. The maps tend to ignore big/important towns and make it difficult to find major roads at anything but the highest zoom levels.
Have you ever purchased commercial Unix servers? They use proprietary processors and other components which are manufactured in low volumes. Intel probably makes more CPUs in a day than Sun does in a month.
Lower volumes mean more overhead costs that have to be absorbed by fewer customers.
ZFS has some built-in volume management & data integrity functions that would probably work for you. I don't believe that it is available for Linux, but is freely available via Solaris & OpenSolaris
I could see Google doing something like a credit union, where people loan out money to other members. Or even something simple like a billpay service.
Google's MO is exploiting content & social relationships to sell ads. A Google money service would use the same techniques to maximize loan returns or to target ads.
Think about it, as an advertiser, I could potentially use Google to target results to people with $x in their checking accounts.
The free market works in a free market environment. The army of $500/hour lobbyists that Verizon employs at the state, local and municipal level skews the market somewhat.
Where I work, it takes 6 months, minimum to get a server in a datacenter rack. Then the department pays in excess of $30,000 per server to "maintain" it.
IT departments run amok waste outrageous amounts of money. Those million dollar Oracle licenses and SANs have to be paid for somehow; and bueracracy helps cover up where the money is going.
This project describes how to do what you are talking about.
If you use ghost images, just setup a baseline PC that uses automatic updates or WSUS. Everytime updates are released, run sysprep and ghost the machine.
In many states, you can save substantial amounts of money by agreeing to scale back energy utilization during critical times. In New York, NYSERDA (www.nyserda.org) is the agency that administers the peak load reduction program.
1. Create an open-source HR people 2. Spam Slashdot 3. ??? 4. Profit
Your challenge will be attracting HR people who purchase stuff like this.
Problems:
- Your average personnel administrator doesn't know jack about open source - IT staff who care about something being open-source drive those sorts of purchases at many companies.
Have you ever used NFS with more than a dozen or so machines? It sucks hard. I used to be a sysadmin in a place that used NFS extensively... NFS is and was a buggy, insecure piece of crap.
I think that many of the chipset makers are afraid of the legal liability that widespread software controllable radios could bring on. I'm actually suprised that some jackass hasn't been caught jamming police or airport radios.
The thing that should jump out at you is this passage from your first link:
"NetBSD comes with a long list of different sentences, required by the various licenses for parts of the system. In a 1997 version of NetBSD, I counted 75 of these sentences. I would not be surprised if the list has grown by now."
Say Apache required those 75 attribution sentences, and say someone at IBM working on the IBM HTTP server (based on Apache) erroneously mangled or deleted a few of those attributions. Now IBM can be sued for violating the license, because they sell products that are bundled with their Apache-derived webserver.
If you want recognition for your Open Source work, release it via the GPL or some other license -- that way your contributions are actually visible to other programmers when it gets embedded in other products. BSD w/attribution simply ensures that your name will appear in small print in the preface of a computer manual that nobody reads.
The original BSD license included an "Advertising Clause". That advertising clause is incompatabile with the GPL (because it adds additional restrictions to your use and distribution of the software) and is a rather annoying and useless artifact.
The University of California removed the advertising clause in 1999. OpenSSL and its predessessor, SSLeay, require attribution on all marketing material.
Here is the original BSD license... clause 3 is the advertising clause:
* Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by the University of
* California, Berkeley and its contributors.
* 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
OpenSSL is one of those cool projects that would be so much cooler if it weren't for the stupid license that makes it a PITA to actually employ in a product.
OpenSSL essentially uses the BSD license w/attribution, which makes it difficult to use with GPLd projects, unless you use the version provided by your distro -- which isn't always desireable.
Be careful. Alot of the conservative types these days are reinventing McCarthy into a patriotic hero. I actually heard a guy at a town council meeting declare that Eisenhower was a closet Marixist-Leninist...
Its obivous that most college professors have liberal or democratic leanings -- but when the alternative is a Pat Robertson/Oil Tycoon coalition, what other choice do you have?
He indicated that the government would need to mislead the press during the conduct of the war, and that the certain government actions would clash with public policy.
The difference is that in 1941, the press was behind the government. If Gore was president, we'd be selling weapons to Iran to placate them and never even hear about it.
Its not that straightforward. Your customers might be ahead of or behind the curve. A product aimed at developers might be able to support only bleeding edge technology; while a product targetted at a trucking company or factory might require support for Netscape 4 or IE 3.
As the quantity of copper decreases, the cost will go up. This will make using alternative materials more attractive.
Also, as the costs go up, it will become economically feasible to recover copper from old wires. All of the worthless scrap electronics and cables that everyone has will become valuable and will end up recycled.
Slashdot Mirror
They can avoid it easily -- stop uploading files!
If users need to share data between computers, there are these newfangled technologies called "CD-R", "USB Key" and "Email" that would probably work pretty well.
When one of your bank's employees decides that he WANTS to "share" your personal data with his home PC, don't bitch.
Are you nuts? The spreadsheet on your desktop might contain important customer data, sensitive personal communication, or god knows work. And Google is taking it upon itself to upload it, unencrypted, over the internet.
And uploading my data to a server controlled by a company that employs some of the most talented people in data mining is just asking for trouble.
Google maps pictures rock, but the maps suck. The maps tend to ignore big/important towns and make it difficult to find major roads at anything but the highest zoom levels.
Have you ever purchased commercial Unix servers? They use proprietary processors and other components which are manufactured in low volumes. Intel probably makes more CPUs in a day than Sun does in a month.
Lower volumes mean more overhead costs that have to be absorbed by fewer customers.
ZFS has some built-in volume management & data integrity functions that would probably work for you. I don't believe that it is available for Linux, but is freely available via Solaris & OpenSolaris
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/zfs.jsp
"How could Sun then relicense the program for sale as StarOffice?"
Easy.
They just make a deal with the organization that takes responsibility for OO.o to give them special licensing terms.
Laptops rock, but be aware of your posture... laptops reinforce poor posture that can lead to carpal tunnel & back problems.
I've gone through back surgery, its expensive, painful and not something that you want to go through to save $4 on your power bill.
I could see Google doing something like a credit union, where people loan out money to other members. Or even something simple like a billpay service.
Google's MO is exploiting content & social relationships to sell ads. A Google money service would use the same techniques to maximize loan returns or to target ads.
Think about it, as an advertiser, I could potentially use Google to target results to people with $x in their checking accounts.
The free market works in a free market environment. The army of $500/hour lobbyists that Verizon employs at the state, local and municipal level skews the market somewhat.
Where I work, it takes 6 months, minimum to get a server in a datacenter rack. Then the department pays in excess of $30,000 per server to "maintain" it.
IT departments run amok waste outrageous amounts of money. Those million dollar Oracle licenses and SANs have to be paid for somehow; and bueracracy helps cover up where the money is going.
The problem is, it isn't necessarily practical or cost-effective to rip out all of your servers and replace them with Operton-based machines.
Peak load reduction can net you significant cost savings, for the cost of shutting down non-essential equipment during a brownout...
This project describes how to do what you are talking about.
If you use ghost images, just setup a baseline PC that uses automatic updates or WSUS. Everytime updates are released, run sysprep and ghost the machine.
In many states, you can save substantial amounts of money by agreeing to scale back energy utilization during critical times. In New York, NYSERDA (www.nyserda.org) is the agency that administers the peak load reduction program.
1. Create an open-source HR people
2. Spam Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit
Your challenge will be attracting HR people who purchase stuff like this.
Problems:
- Your average personnel administrator doesn't know jack about open source
- IT staff who care about something being open-source drive those sorts of purchases at many companies.
Have you ever used NFS with more than a dozen or so machines? It sucks hard. I used to be a sysadmin in a place that used NFS extensively... NFS is and was a buggy, insecure piece of crap.
I think that many of the chipset makers are afraid of the legal liability that widespread software controllable radios could bring on. I'm actually suprised that some jackass hasn't been caught jamming police or airport radios.
The thing that should jump out at you is this passage from your first link:
"NetBSD comes with a long list of different sentences, required by the various licenses for parts of the system. In a 1997 version of NetBSD, I counted 75 of these sentences. I would not be surprised if the list has grown by now."
Say Apache required those 75 attribution sentences, and say someone at IBM working on the IBM HTTP server (based on Apache) erroneously mangled or deleted a few of those attributions. Now IBM can be sued for violating the license, because they sell products that are bundled with their Apache-derived webserver.
If you want recognition for your Open Source work, release it via the GPL or some other license -- that way your contributions are actually visible to other programmers when it gets embedded in other products. BSD w/attribution simply ensures that your name will appear in small print in the preface of a computer manual that nobody reads.
The original BSD license included an "Advertising Clause". That advertising clause is incompatabile with the GPL (because it adds additional restrictions to your use and distribution of the software) and is a rather annoying and useless artifact.
The University of California removed the advertising clause in 1999. OpenSSL and its predessessor, SSLeay, require attribution on all marketing material.
Here is the original BSD license... clause 3 is the advertising clause:
* Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by the University of
* California, Berkeley and its contributors.
* 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
OpenSSL is one of those cool projects that would be so much cooler if it weren't for the stupid license that makes it a PITA to actually employ in a product.
OpenSSL essentially uses the BSD license w/attribution, which makes it difficult to use with GPLd projects, unless you use the version provided by your distro -- which isn't always desireable.
"That, my friends, is a McCarthyite witch-hunt."
Be careful. Alot of the conservative types these days are reinventing McCarthy into a patriotic hero. I actually heard a guy at a town council meeting declare that Eisenhower was a closet Marixist-Leninist...
Its obivous that most college professors have liberal or democratic leanings -- but when the alternative is a Pat Robertson/Oil Tycoon coalition, what other choice do you have?
After 9/11, Bush said something similar.
He indicated that the government would need to mislead the press during the conduct of the war, and that the certain government actions would clash with public policy.
The difference is that in 1941, the press was behind the government. If Gore was president, we'd be selling weapons to Iran to placate them and never even hear about it.
Its not that straightforward. Your customers might be ahead of or behind the curve. A product aimed at developers might be able to support only bleeding edge technology; while a product targetted at a trucking company or factory might require support for Netscape 4 or IE 3.
In the real world, it's easier to give a 6-pack to the cleaning crew. Cleaning people are usually outsourced these days, and usually get issued keys.
As the quantity of copper decreases, the cost will go up. This will make using alternative materials more attractive.
Also, as the costs go up, it will become economically feasible to recover copper from old wires. All of the worthless scrap electronics and cables that everyone has will become valuable and will end up recycled.