The differences between PalmOS3.1 and 3.5 are negligable, but important here:
the modems dialog in prefs changed, so that 3.3 and up can specify different, new modems. This shouldn't be a problem, however.
I believe that if you get the cable and set up the connection specifics in the Network dialog, treating the phone as a regular modem, that it will work. This is what the data-enabled phone ought to do, act as a regular modem.
Note, if you got the cable for the phone to the 9-pin serial of the laptop, you ought to be able to use the handspring travel cable connected to the 9-pin/cell cable with a gender changer in the middle and have it work perfectly- This way you score the use of the cable for your laptop as well as your handspring.
Even if the modem is at the Cell-provider's gateway, because it's a data enabled phone meant for dialing out from laptops, this ought to work. It works with my cdma phone, which is set up in this fashion.
In the states, handspring --> cable --> CDMA phone
in Europe and Israel, handspring --> IR- ericsson i888 gsm phone.
I did use a TDMA phone in the middle east for about a month, the connection was always getting dropped. could've been the phone, tho- it was an ericsson 300 series, so you know it was crufty.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
King Hussein died, and his son hasn't changed much at all... He's mostly playing the role of a lurker, watching and learning. I don't think he's changed much of anything in the year he's been in power.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
All apple-heads know of this site... and it gets regular linkage from lowendmac.com
The only reason I can fathom that this article got posted was-
Apple is now cool for being the largest installed user base of a single Unix distribution.
Apple makes nice hardware (and some jerk always says he can get a junkbox x86 cheaper) even if the previous OS was always a kludgey sort of cooporative tasking thing. (amazing how it made the transition from 68k to PPC, tho...)
Apple got slammed by Linus recently, so anything Apple is newsworthy here.
Well, it's always good to see a site like apple-history.com get noticed. They've set a goal for the type of content they want and always delivered it with complete information, never half-baked, always quality.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Insurance is simply betting- I bet that I might get sick and require expensive care. The insurance company bets I won't and that they'll profit off the bet.
HMOs are much more sinister, being that they get to choose the doctors and coach the doctors as to what treatments are permissible.
When I lived in Israel, I noticed that they do have a form of health care for all, but taxation is done far differently. They don't have a sales tax, and state tax/federal taxes don't hit one time a year, but instead are taken monthly from the paycheck and from the monthly property tax.
Here in the states, I have good medical insurance (and yes, I've had the misfortune of needing to use it, thanks) and of my bi-monthly salary of 2,479.20, I get to take home $1,661.75. And this is without your federal health care and a useless to non-existant public transportation system.
Thanks but no thanks, I'd like to start seeing more of the money I'm supposedly being paid.
The title of this thread is "Taxation's not simply bad," to which I answer, while nothing in modern Government is simple, taxation is bad.
Part of how we got to this position is that the law stopped being used to only make rulings on property and property rights, and began to be used for legislating social change. I contend that while this may have led to a few good results, it has also led to much abuse and distortion of truth. The end does not justify the means.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
As an American living in a hi tech area on the east coast (RTP), we are getting taxed heavily, don't have health care paid for by the taxation, and the public transportation we do have is pathetic.
Some argue that the public transportation is pathetic because everyone takes cars, I believe everyone uses the car because the public transportation doesn't run to convenient locations on a convenient reliable schedule. But none of that matters,
because we're still taxed into 'barely getting by' status, and not seeing either of the benefits that you mention to justify such taxation.
Insurance works when your work provides it as a benefit, and if it doesn't, you're free to shop around to get the best coverage for your money. If you weren't taxed so heavily, you could afford better insurance. If the insurance companies wanted your business they'd invent a plan that fit into your budget. It's called lessaiz-faire economics, go and learn it. No one owes you these things, least of all a government funded on the backs of everyone else.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Introducing Xfree into the cleanliness that is Be is a travesty. Now, if there were an easy way to make GTK, QT, and X apps work in Be without losing the beauty and speed of Be by dragging it down with X, I'd be sold in a minute.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, the reason why RedHat stands to make money is that the profit margin shows they are making 40% profit on every copy of boxed product they sell, and more on services.
This is why investors continue to be attracted- they may not be making money now, but they've proven they have a high profit margin, so when they do become profitable, they'll be poised to make gobs of money.
Granted, M$ has a 95% profit margin on each copy of OS they sell, but no one wants to see a second M$.
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I wish I knew what Apple had to say about all this:
After all, Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, who are heading up the Rip. Mix. Burn. of iTunes and the DVD-R burning of iDVD and DVD Pro.
Steve Jobs is also CEO of Pixar, who last I knew, were in bed with Disney and members of MPAA, and makers of DVDs that require DeCSS to view on Linux.
So Jobs is having it both ways, he's selling the machines that enable fair use / copyright violation, and producing some of the material that gets reproduced through fair use and copyright violation.
I know this was primarily about Napster, but I couldn't resist bringing this issue up. It might have been more relevant if Apple owned a record company, but the iDVD- Pixar parallel is close enough, especially with the existance of iTunes.
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I won't comment on whether opting out is good or bad- TiVo provides for the possibility, so it's fair for me to take advantage of it.
I opted out when I signed up for my lifetime subscription in september.
I opted out again when I read the first article on this at/. in December.
I just finished calling up again, and being told that my record was set to gather the anonymous info. I re-opted out AGAIN.
I believe I signed up for a lifetime of having to call and opt out. If they're going to provide the possibility to opt-out, then at least the option ought to stay set!
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
check your iDisk (from apple's iTools, when you register)
They dropped a fair amount of free or beta software into a folder for you to play with, and on saturday, they'll be giving you more free applications to work with.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
<quote>Yet another example of tech companies being jerks because things aren't as pretty as they were a year ago. Screwing over your customers is one thing, but it sucks that they would jerk around employees too. </quote>
Why is screwing customers okay?
And if it's okay for the company to screw customers, do you really expect the same company to hold it's employees in higher regard?
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Developerworks isn't IBM, exactly
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Developerworks is an IBM sponsored site, but the information is for non-IBMers, by IBMers and non-IBMers alike. The content creators don't have to be IBM employees.
In fact, I'm working on an article for dW now...
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nasa and linux not unusual
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Didn't Beowulf clustering originate at NASA? yes.
Didn't that HAM satellite that was mentioned here at slashdot multiple times run on Debian? AFAIK.
Space related sciences and Linux in combination are nothing new.
However, what is interesting here is that NASA, who tests everything down to the last little nit, has deemed linux as worthy for controlling one of their satellites. Their testing is done more rigorously than anyone.
Especially since they don't have Feynman to call when it goes wrong.
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[QUOTE] Sure if this were possible, it would have been done?! [/QUOTE]
I'm not so sure- if Gracenote knew they were going to abide by and aid the RIAA, perhaps they thought they'd save themselves a lot of effort and avoid stepping into the MP3 boondoggle.
Just because something is useful to the user doesn't mean a company will implement it. A shame, really.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
In the bad old days, people would have said, IBM and NSA in the same article? must be bad news!
But the IBM developerworks zones are hosted and edited by IBM, but provide content composed by non-IBMers for non-IBMers.
Yes, it's a strange thing seeing the NSA release anything, but then, why not? Perhaps they've become more enlightened in Virginny than they used to be. Certainly more enlightened than when Cliff Stoll wrote the Cuckoo's Egg.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, no.
Back in the good old days of plague and suffering, artists either lived off the patronage system, where kings paid to keep the artists in their employ, or the artists died broke and alone and didn't gain fame until after their deaths.
Some artists did a combination of both, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who did for a time live in patronage, and managed to die alone in an unmarked grave.
Michelangelo managed to avoid patronage as a lifelong method of employment, but he did his share of royalty portraiture, because hey, that's where the money was. This is akin to the 30 second nike ad, or Jordan talking about his Hanes(tm).
Arguably, Michelangelo left us with things we can appreciate hundreds of years later, where Jordan probably has not, but the history is important to learn. Payment methods have only shifted from patronage to a monarchy to patronage to a corporation.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Processors are stuck at 733mhz, not 500...
considering the recent leap to 733, I'd have to say that processor speeds are not stuck at all.
Behind your Intel-driven expectations, perhaps, but not stuck.
You only concern yourself with Motorola's processor woes, ignoring the fact that IBM is taking over Apple's processor supply, in iBook, North American iMac, and later this year (don't ask me how I know, I can't tell you), the PowerMac and PowerBook.
Your reasonable suggestion isn't really that reasonable- you just want everything to open up, regardless of the impact.
IBM has opened up several valuable ideas, developed and contributed to open-source and free software technologies, and yet they don't open up *everything.*
Your argument is flawed and to see your incorrect statement of facts moderated at Informative only reveals the lack of your knowledge and the lack of the Moderator's knowledge on the subject.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Guys, you actually BOUGHT the M$NBC article?
They're only re-writing the reviews at Wincent.org focusing on negatives. Hmmm, now *whyever* would they do that?
*Fear: DVD and many other features lacking.
*Uncertainty: Users won't want to live without these features and will either suffer reboots or not use it.
*Doubt: NO ONE will use Mac Os X (pronouced 'ten.')and it will become a big failure the day it's announced. As a result, Apple will give up making computers once and for all, and resort to manufacturing Dalmation School Supplies and Translucent/Transparent Cube Office Supplies, the first of which shall be a kleenex box. Note, that the Office Supplies will be returned by users who don't want mold lines in their kleenex boxes.
Spreading FUD on the basis of Web sites using internal builds not ready for public consumption is ridiculous. I'm not surprised in the least to see M$NBC and ZdNET do it, because I can't consider them news sources of good repute.
<sarcasm> Oh, wait, I'm at slashdot, the goat-worthy news site!</sarcasm>
It's great to post positive news about emerging technology, and it's fine to post negatives about emerging technology, but posting FUD using information on INTERNAL BUILDS is wrong. It's not journalism, it's sensationalism.
Thanks, Slashdot Editors!
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Since you've convinced yourself that the real value you and your employer seek can only be found in paid for systems, excluding BSDI, may I recommend you look further at AIX?
At least IBM is contributing to the community that does find value in open-source/free-software, while continuing to improve the AIX offering. Technologies like LVM and JFS, for instance, and others, make AIX a great system. Granted, it still uses CDE, but I expect that'll change, and you can always load your own, or go with that free one, GNOME, like Solaris is choosing to use.
Thanks for voicing your opinion, now go and spend your employer's money. Spread your deathknells for BSD elsewhere, we don't need 'em.
See, you can't kill a free-software (or alternatively, BSD licensed) operating system as long as people continue to use it or work on it. A proprietary operating system can be killed by the company that sells it, but as long as one person uses the system, and one person develops for it, it's a live system.
Now excuse me, I'll be installing Darwin for Intel and OpenStep 4.2 as dual-boot on the same machine. Not exactly free software, but definately open-source, and certainly not dead.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
It'd be great if you were correct, and if you only look at the most recent history, you are.
Please re-examine Microsoft's attempts to eliminate DR-DOS and their approaches to OS/2.
Any OEM is not free to sell computers with whichever system they choose. If an OEM chooses to sell computers with Windows, and make the option for a different operating system instead of Windows available, then that OEM is subject to Microsoft's whim about whether to raise the cost of Windows for that OEM.
I don't blame the OEM's, they attempted to stay in business in the face of Microsoft charging them for using anything other than Windows. Please don't tell me that nobody wanted anything other than Windows PC's, you ignore DR-DOS, Os/2, IBM PC-DOS, desqview, and later, Be. OS/2 is only the biggest and best example, because it was Microsoft versus IBM. No infrastructure for ordering alternative software loads on oem hard drives? IBM had os/2 as an option, until they folded under pressure from Microsoft.
Yes, the Microsoft tax is much discussed, and misunderstood by many, but please don't deny the existence of people who wanted anything but Windows, and please consider history before you tell me how wrong I am.
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The differences between PalmOS3.1 and 3.5 are negligable, but important here:
the modems dialog in prefs changed, so that 3.3 and up can specify different, new modems. This shouldn't be a problem, however.
I believe that if you get the cable and set up the connection specifics in the Network dialog, treating the phone as a regular modem, that it will work. This is what the data-enabled phone ought to do, act as a regular modem.
Note, if you got the cable for the phone to the 9-pin serial of the laptop, you ought to be able to use the handspring travel cable connected to the 9-pin/cell cable with a gender changer in the middle and have it work perfectly- This way you score the use of the cable for your laptop as well as your handspring.
Even if the modem is at the Cell-provider's gateway, because it's a data enabled phone meant for dialing out from laptops, this ought to work. It works with my cdma phone, which is set up in this fashion.
In the states, handspring --> cable --> CDMA phone
in Europe and Israel, handspring --> IR- ericsson i888 gsm phone.
I did use a TDMA phone in the middle east for about a month, the connection was always getting dropped. could've been the phone, tho- it was an ericsson 300 series, so you know it was crufty.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
The TiVO works whether you pay the $10 a month ($100 a year, $200 lifetime) or not-
If you don't pay for the service, you have a digital VCR. No less, and not much more (prettier interface for scheduling the recording of shows?)
If you pay the fee, you get the program listings for your area, and software updates, such as the one that bumped TiVO up to version 2.01 last night.
You aren't required to pay the $10 service, but it makes the device easier to use.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Jordan is a fairly benevolent dictatorship.
King Hussein died, and his son hasn't changed much at all... He's mostly playing the role of a lurker, watching and learning. I don't think he's changed much of anything in the year he's been in power.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
All apple-heads know of this site... and it gets regular linkage from lowendmac.com
The only reason I can fathom that this article got posted was-
Apple is now cool for being the largest installed user base of a single Unix distribution.
Apple makes nice hardware (and some jerk always says he can get a junkbox x86 cheaper) even if the previous OS was always a kludgey sort of cooporative tasking thing. (amazing how it made the transition from 68k to PPC, tho...)
Apple got slammed by Linus recently, so anything Apple is newsworthy here.
Well, it's always good to see a site like apple-history.com get noticed. They've set a goal for the type of content they want and always delivered it with complete information, never half-baked, always quality.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Insurance is simply betting- I bet that I might get sick and require expensive care. The insurance company bets I won't and that they'll profit off the bet.
HMOs are much more sinister, being that they get to choose the doctors and coach the doctors as to what treatments are permissible.
When I lived in Israel, I noticed that they do have a form of health care for all, but taxation is done far differently. They don't have a sales tax, and state tax/federal taxes don't hit one time a year, but instead are taken monthly from the paycheck and from the monthly property tax.
Here in the states, I have good medical insurance (and yes, I've had the misfortune of needing to use it, thanks) and of my bi-monthly salary of 2,479.20, I get to take home $1,661.75. And this is without your federal health care and a useless to non-existant public transportation system.
Thanks but no thanks, I'd like to start seeing more of the money I'm supposedly being paid.
The title of this thread is "Taxation's not simply bad," to which I answer, while nothing in modern Government is simple, taxation is bad.
Part of how we got to this position is that the law stopped being used to only make rulings on property and property rights, and began to be used for legislating social change. I contend that while this may have led to a few good results, it has also led to much abuse and distortion of truth. The end does not justify the means.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
As an American living in a hi tech area on the east coast (RTP), we are getting taxed heavily, don't have health care paid for by the taxation, and the public transportation we do have is pathetic.
Some argue that the public transportation is pathetic because everyone takes cars, I believe everyone uses the car because the public transportation doesn't run to convenient locations on a convenient reliable schedule. But none of that matters,
because we're still taxed into 'barely getting by' status, and not seeing either of the benefits that you mention to justify such taxation.
Insurance works when your work provides it as a benefit, and if it doesn't, you're free to shop around to get the best coverage for your money. If you weren't taxed so heavily, you could afford better insurance. If the insurance companies wanted your business they'd invent a plan that fit into your budget. It's called lessaiz-faire economics, go and learn it. No one owes you these things, least of all a government funded on the backs of everyone else.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Introducing Xfree into the cleanliness that is Be is a travesty. Now, if there were an easy way to make GTK, QT, and X apps work in Be without losing the beauty and speed of Be by dragging it down with X, I'd be sold in a minute.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, the reason why RedHat stands to make money is that the profit margin shows they are making 40% profit on every copy of boxed product they sell, and more on services.
This is why investors continue to be attracted- they may not be making money now, but they've proven they have a high profit margin, so when they do become profitable, they'll be poised to make gobs of money.
Granted, M$ has a 95% profit margin on each copy of OS they sell, but no one wants to see a second M$.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Please send me an email about the Hebrew Hypercard stack you wrote... I'm interested.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
After all, Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple, who are heading up the Rip. Mix. Burn. of iTunes and the DVD-R burning of iDVD and DVD Pro.
Steve Jobs is also CEO of Pixar, who last I knew, were in bed with Disney and members of MPAA, and makers of DVDs that require DeCSS to view on Linux.
So Jobs is having it both ways, he's selling the machines that enable fair use / copyright violation, and producing some of the material that gets reproduced through fair use and copyright violation.
I know this was primarily about Napster, but I couldn't resist bringing this issue up. It might have been more relevant if Apple owned a record company, but the iDVD- Pixar parallel is close enough, especially with the existance of iTunes.
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I won't comment on whether opting out is good or bad- TiVo provides for the possibility, so it's fair for me to take advantage of it.
/. in December.
I opted out when I signed up for my lifetime subscription in september.
I opted out again when I read the first article on this at
I just finished calling up again, and being told that my record was set to gather the anonymous info. I re-opted out AGAIN.
I believe I signed up for a lifetime of having to call and opt out. If they're going to provide the possibility to opt-out, then at least the option ought to stay set!
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
check your iDisk (from apple's iTools, when you register)
They dropped a fair amount of free or beta software into a folder for you to play with, and on saturday, they'll be giving you more free applications to work with.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Taco writes at the end of the story,
<quote>Yet another example of tech companies being jerks because things aren't as pretty as they were a year ago. Screwing over your customers is one thing, but it sucks that they would jerk around employees too. </quote>
Why is screwing customers okay?
And if it's okay for the company to screw customers, do you really expect the same company to hold it's employees in higher regard?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Developerworks is an IBM sponsored site, but the information is for non-IBMers, by IBMers and non-IBMers alike. The content creators don't have to be IBM employees.
In fact, I'm working on an article for dW now...
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Didn't Beowulf clustering originate at NASA? yes.
Didn't that HAM satellite that was mentioned here at slashdot multiple times run on Debian? AFAIK.
Space related sciences and Linux in combination are nothing new.
However, what is interesting here is that NASA, who tests everything down to the last little nit, has deemed linux as worthy for controlling one of their satellites. Their testing is done more rigorously than anyone.
Especially since they don't have Feynman to call when it goes wrong.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
[QUOTE] Sure if this were possible, it would have been done?! [/QUOTE]
I'm not so sure- if Gracenote knew they were going to abide by and aid the RIAA, perhaps they thought they'd save themselves a lot of effort and avoid stepping into the MP3 boondoggle.
Just because something is useful to the user doesn't mean a company will implement it. A shame, really.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
headtrip? that you?
t/l 40910
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Appropriate quote:
I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a million voices suddenly cried out, and were silenced.
UCITA, Death Star of the consumer's software rights?
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
In the bad old days, people would have said, IBM and NSA in the same article? must be bad news!
But the IBM developerworks zones are hosted and edited by IBM, but provide content composed by non-IBMers for non-IBMers.
Yes, it's a strange thing seeing the NSA release anything, but then, why not? Perhaps they've become more enlightened in Virginny than they used to be. Certainly more enlightened than when Cliff Stoll wrote the Cuckoo's Egg.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Actually, no.
Back in the good old days of plague and suffering, artists either lived off the patronage system, where kings paid to keep the artists in their employ, or the artists died broke and alone and didn't gain fame until after their deaths.
Some artists did a combination of both, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who did for a time live in patronage, and managed to die alone in an unmarked grave.
Michelangelo managed to avoid patronage as a lifelong method of employment, but he did his share of royalty portraiture, because hey, that's where the money was. This is akin to the 30 second nike ad, or Jordan talking about his Hanes(tm).
Arguably, Michelangelo left us with things we can appreciate hundreds of years later, where Jordan probably has not, but the history is important to learn. Payment methods have only shifted from patronage to a monarchy to patronage to a corporation.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Processors are stuck at 733mhz, not 500...
considering the recent leap to 733, I'd have to say that processor speeds are not stuck at all.
Behind your Intel-driven expectations, perhaps, but not stuck.
You only concern yourself with Motorola's processor woes, ignoring the fact that IBM is taking over Apple's processor supply, in iBook, North American iMac, and later this year (don't ask me how I know, I can't tell you), the PowerMac and PowerBook.
Your reasonable suggestion isn't really that reasonable- you just want everything to open up, regardless of the impact.
IBM has opened up several valuable ideas, developed and contributed to open-source and free software technologies, and yet they don't open up *everything.*
Your argument is flawed and to see your incorrect statement of facts moderated at Informative only reveals the lack of your knowledge and the lack of the Moderator's knowledge on the subject.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
Guys, you actually BOUGHT the M$NBC article?
They're only re-writing the reviews at Wincent.org focusing on negatives. Hmmm, now *whyever* would they do that?
*Fear: DVD and many other features lacking.
*Uncertainty: Users won't want to live without these features and will either suffer reboots or not use it.
*Doubt: NO ONE will use Mac Os X (pronouced 'ten.')and it will become a big failure the day it's announced. As a result, Apple will give up making computers once and for all, and resort to manufacturing Dalmation School Supplies and Translucent/Transparent Cube Office Supplies, the first of which shall be a kleenex box. Note, that the Office Supplies will be returned by users who don't want mold lines in their kleenex boxes.
Spreading FUD on the basis of Web sites using internal builds not ready for public consumption is ridiculous. I'm not surprised in the least to see M$NBC and ZdNET do it, because I can't consider them news sources of good repute.
<sarcasm> Oh, wait, I'm at slashdot, the goat-worthy news site!</sarcasm>
It's great to post positive news about emerging technology, and it's fine to post negatives about emerging technology, but posting FUD using information on INTERNAL BUILDS is wrong. It's not journalism, it's sensationalism.
Thanks, Slashdot Editors!
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I'd just like to say,
There is no CABAL.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
feeding the trolls again, I am.
Since you've convinced yourself that the real value you and your employer seek can only be found in paid for systems, excluding BSDI, may I recommend you look further at AIX?
At least IBM is contributing to the community that does find value in open-source/free-software, while continuing to improve the AIX offering. Technologies like LVM and JFS, for instance, and others, make AIX a great system. Granted, it still uses CDE, but I expect that'll change, and you can always load your own, or go with that free one, GNOME, like Solaris is choosing to use.
Thanks for voicing your opinion, now go and spend your employer's money. Spread your deathknells for BSD elsewhere, we don't need 'em.
See, you can't kill a free-software (or alternatively, BSD licensed) operating system as long as people continue to use it or work on it. A proprietary operating system can be killed by the company that sells it, but as long as one person uses the system, and one person develops for it, it's a live system.
Now excuse me, I'll be installing Darwin for Intel and OpenStep 4.2 as dual-boot on the same machine. Not exactly free software, but definately open-source, and certainly not dead.
A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close
It'd be great if you were correct, and if you only look at the most recent history, you are.
Please re-examine Microsoft's attempts to eliminate DR-DOS and their approaches to OS/2.
Any OEM is not free to sell computers with whichever system they choose. If an OEM chooses to sell computers with Windows, and make the option for a different operating system instead of Windows available, then that OEM is subject to Microsoft's whim about whether to raise the cost of Windows for that OEM.
I don't blame the OEM's, they attempted to stay in business in the face of Microsoft charging them for using anything other than Windows. Please don't tell me that nobody wanted anything other than Windows PC's, you ignore DR-DOS, Os/2, IBM PC-DOS, desqview, and later, Be. OS/2 is only the biggest and best example, because it was Microsoft versus IBM. No infrastructure for ordering alternative software loads on oem hard drives? IBM had os/2 as an option, until they folded under pressure from Microsoft.
Yes, the Microsoft tax is much discussed, and misunderstood by many, but please don't deny the existence of people who wanted anything but Windows, and please consider history before you tell me how wrong I am.
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