I believe msft is being very successful with that message.
That message is what the entire scox-scam is about. Think about it, why sue IBM? IBM is not even a Linux distributor. But, IBM had just made a big contribution to linux, and msft wants the world to know: that sort of action does not go unpunished.
The tomtom suit is another slam-dunk msft victory. Msft gets free access to tomtom's patents, msft gets money from tomtom, and tomtom has to stop using fat. Most importantly of all, the message is broadcast: use Linux, get sued.
It doesn't matter whether or not the lawsuit has merit. Unless you have about $50 million to fight the lawsuit, msft wins as soon as they file the suit.
A BSCS is almost as difficult as a degree in engineering, but it's as worthless as a degree in Liberal Arts.
Look at the job ads, employers don't give a damn about your silly BSCS, they want experience - many years of professional, verifiable, recent experience, and in many different technologies, and no jobs have the same requirements.
Maybe there are few slashdot readers, who don't live in caves, who may have noticed that practically ever major tech employer has been laying workers by the thousands - especially US IT workers. And yet you are going to believe this corporate sponsored bullshit? You have my pity.
US women are going into medicine, and law, and those fields also impact family life.
But, in STEM career fields, US workers are likely to not find a job when the graduate, or if they do find a job, US workers may be training their H-1B replacement two years later.
As STEM are aggressively offshored, and guest workers continue to flood into the STEM fields, the future for US STEM workers does not look bright.
>>Lawsuit by proxy...again. Apparently Microsoft didn't learn anything from that little SCO fiasco.
I wouild say the scox scam was helpful to msft. The scam sent this clear message: "if you contribute to Linux, expect a bogus lawsuit that will cost you around $100 million."
If you are ibm, a $100 million lawsuit may not be that big a deal, but what if you are not ibm?
Also, a lot of people still believe that there may be something illegal about Linux - better stay away from it, just to make sure.
The US tech industry was built, and grew explosively, before the flood of h1bs. Now we are supposed to believe that only Indians are capable of understanding technology.
Is there any real evidence to prove that h1bs have been all that helpful to US technology? When did msft start all hiring so many h1bs? Right after XP and before Vista wasn't it? Banks have been hiring tons of h1bs, and they are all just doing great aren't they?
There are plenty of highly qualified US tech workers, many of whom are unemployed, why is so critical to keep flooding the market with h1bs?
India has four times the population of the USA. It only stands to reason that the US can not provide jobs for the Indians who want to work here. In fact, the US can not even provide jobs for US citizens.
The US tech industry was in much better shape before all the offshoring and guest workers. Enough is enough.
I have been teaching IT courses for the past 13 years. The drop-off in enrollments, beginning in 2001, has been remarkable.
Talking one-on-one with students, I have found that the prospect of losing a job -- or of not being able to get one in the first place -- because of competition from lower-paid employees both here and abroad is causing students to switch careers away from IT. And who could blame them? Working hard to earn a degree only to have the job market flooded by lower-paid employees is discouraging.
This indirect effect of hiring H-1B employees is one that doesn't get much discussion. Maybe it is time that it did, because we are losing the ability to compete technically with European and Asian countries.
Danny Clarke Instructor, math and computer science Truckee Meadows Community College Reno, Nev.
Why is everybody is such a wad about Indian temp workers? What about all the US workers who can find jobs because the market is so glutted? Doesn't the US have a right, and a responsibility, to take of it's own interests first?
Please take a quick look at this, if you don't believe me:
Kinda funny, I think. We are so constantly lectured that the US should not have any "protectionist" policies against India, because protectionism never works.
March 1, 2009
India Maintains Sense of Optimism and Growth
India's trillion-dollar economy remains a relative bright spot, some say, in part because the country's bureaucracy and its protectionist polices have kept it insulated from the fallout of the global downturn.
Do you live in a cave? The real US unemployment rate is probably as high as it's been since the great depression. You can't read the headlines without coming across news of another huge layoff.
Msft's patents are bogus, msft just patents obvious ideas, or other people's ideas, in order harass any real competition. If msft can not win through better products, then msft will win through barratry and extrotion. This is no different than the scox scam.
It's right on Microsoft's website. Looks to me like msft promised not sue because of vfat?
1. LIMITED LICENSE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE.
(a) Provided that you comply with all terms and conditions of this Agreement and subject to the limitations in Sections 1(c) - (f) below, Microsoft grants to you the following non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable license under any copyrights owned or licensable by Microsoft without payment of consideration to unaffiliated third parties, to reproduce the Specification solely for the purposes of creating portions of products which comply with the Specification in unmodified form.
Future News: Msft, along with Bill and Melinda Fund, charitably donate thousands of windows PCs to Cuban schools, and Cuban government offices. Shortly after that, Cuba decides that the Linux plan was un-workable.
The bailouts were supposed to preserve jobs for US workers. But, the execs pocketed the money, and fired the employees anyway. I guess the US public never learns.
At least, that I what I learned from watching Southpark, which seems to be as reliable a source as the US pop-media.
I believe you can get all the features of ms-exchange from google mail, for nothing, or next-to-nothing. I further believe that this has already been successfully done by some government institutions with with tens of thousands of users.
Also, in some cases, you may be able to replace sharepoint with google docs.
Very good point. Just last March BG was waving a bogus think-tank report around, while petitioned congress for unlimited h1bs visas. According to BG the US needs h1bs to make up for the severe shortages of US workers.
65,000 in the general pool. 20,000 to those with graduate degrees from U.S. universities. Unlimited to non-profit and government research laboratories and to universities.
After numerous delays, msft finally releases their half-baked, stink-bomb Vista. It was such a disaster that msft had to desperately scramble to get it half-way fixed, and change the name Win7. And this considered praise worthy?
Moonlight is just another msft scam to force msft standards on everybody. Please, we have all seen this before. Does moonlight even work on windows firefox?
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I believe msft is being very successful with that message.
That message is what the entire scox-scam is about. Think about it, why sue IBM? IBM is not even a Linux distributor. But, IBM had just made a big contribution to linux, and msft wants the world to know: that sort of action does not go unpunished.
The tomtom suit is another slam-dunk msft victory. Msft gets free access to tomtom's patents, msft gets money from tomtom, and tomtom has to stop using fat. Most importantly of all, the message is broadcast: use Linux, get sued.
It doesn't matter whether or not the lawsuit has merit. Unless you have about $50 million to fight the lawsuit, msft wins as soon as they file the suit.
If you run browser based apps, the desktop OS hardly matters.
BTW: I think internet enabled devises are great, but I could hardly imagine doing serious, long term, work on one.
Take a look at the link below. Even people with great degrees, and lots of experience are finding this market impossible.
http://techtoil.org/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:news_and_commentary
When you are doing reading corporate propaganda from a lobbyist group. You might want to take a look at comments from real IT pros:
http://techtoil.org/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:news_and_commentary
A BSCS is almost as difficult as a degree in engineering, but it's as worthless as a degree in Liberal Arts.
Look at the job ads, employers don't give a damn about your silly BSCS, they want experience - many years of professional, verifiable, recent experience, and in many different technologies, and no jobs have the same requirements.
Maybe there are few slashdot readers, who don't live in caves, who may have noticed that practically ever major tech employer has been laying workers by the thousands - especially US IT workers. And yet you are going to believe this corporate sponsored bullshit? You have my pity.
US women are going into medicine, and law, and those fields also impact family life.
But, in STEM career fields, US workers are likely to not find a job when the graduate, or if they do find a job, US workers may be training their H-1B replacement two years later.
As STEM are aggressively offshored, and guest workers continue to flood into the STEM fields, the future for US STEM workers does not look bright.
>>simply because they have been tested less than ie or microsof
Wrong, ActiveX is an abomination when it comes to security.
>>Lawsuit by proxy...again. Apparently Microsoft didn't learn anything from that little SCO fiasco.
I wouild say the scox scam was helpful to msft. The scam sent this clear message: "if you contribute to Linux, expect a bogus lawsuit that will cost you around $100 million."
If you are ibm, a $100 million lawsuit may not be that big a deal, but what if you are not ibm?
Also, a lot of people still believe that there may be something illegal about Linux - better stay away from it, just to make sure.
The US tech industry was built, and grew explosively, before the flood of h1bs. Now we are supposed to believe that only Indians are capable of understanding technology.
Is there any real evidence to prove that h1bs have been all that helpful to US technology? When did msft start all hiring so many h1bs? Right after XP and before Vista wasn't it? Banks have been hiring tons of h1bs, and they are all just doing great aren't they?
There are plenty of highly qualified US tech workers, many of whom are unemployed, why is so critical to keep flooding the market with h1bs?
India has four times the population of the USA. It only stands to reason that the US can not provide jobs for the Indians who want to work here. In fact, the US can not even provide jobs for US citizens.
The US tech industry was in much better shape before all the offshoring and guest workers. Enough is enough.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=334764
Why is everybody is such a wad about Indian temp workers? What about all the US workers who can find jobs because the market is so glutted? Doesn't the US have a right, and a responsibility, to take of it's own interests first?
Please take a quick look at this, if you don't believe me:
http://techtoil.org/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:news_and_commentary
Kinda funny, I think. We are so constantly lectured that the US should not have any "protectionist" policies against India, because protectionism never works.
March 1, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/business/worldbusiness/02rupee.html?_r=1&ref=world
>>It is also important to note that for many colleges and universities, foreign nationals make up a large portion of the student body
It doesn't have to be that way. Americans would be glad to study STEM, if Americans felt there would be career opportunities when they graduated.
But, with the hyper-aggressive offshoring, and replacing Americans with guest workers, Americans are wisely avoiding STEM.
Do you live in a cave? The real US unemployment rate is probably as high as it's been since the great depression. You can't read the headlines without coming across news of another huge layoff.
There absolutely is not plenty of room.
Msft's patents are bogus, msft just patents obvious ideas, or other people's ideas, in order harass any real competition. If msft can not win through better products, then msft will win through barratry and extrotion. This is no different than the scox scam.
But, what do I know.
It's right on Microsoft's website. Looks to me like msft promised not sue because of vfat?
1. LIMITED LICENSE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE.
(a) Provided that you comply with all terms and conditions of this Agreement and subject to the limitations in Sections 1(c) - (f) below, Microsoft grants to you the following non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable license under any copyrights owned or licensable by Microsoft without payment of consideration to unaffiliated third parties, to reproduce the Specification solely for the purposes of creating portions of products which comply with the Specification in unmodified form.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/fatgen.mspx
Future News: Msft, along with Bill and Melinda Fund, charitably donate thousands of windows PCs to Cuban schools, and Cuban government offices. Shortly after that, Cuba decides that the Linux plan was un-workable.
The bailouts were supposed to preserve jobs for US workers. But, the execs pocketed the money, and fired the employees anyway. I guess the US public never learns.
At least, that I what I learned from watching Southpark, which seems to be as reliable a source as the US pop-media.
I believe you can get all the features of ms-exchange from google mail, for nothing, or next-to-nothing. I further believe that this has already been successfully done by some government institutions with with tens of thousands of users.
Also, in some cases, you may be able to replace sharepoint with google docs.
How does it save you any money to run a expensive Citrix client?
Very good point. Just last March BG was waving a bogus think-tank report around, while petitioned congress for unlimited h1bs visas. According to BG the US needs h1bs to make up for the severe shortages of US workers.
Under the current law, the number of visas is:
65,000 in the general pool.
20,000 to those with graduate degrees from U.S. universities.
Unlimited to non-profit and government research laboratories and to universities.
http://www.cis.org/H1bVisaNumbers
And don't forget, the h1b is only one of two dozen work visas that the US offers. Other unlimed visas include: L-1, O-1, and Opt - I think.
Just thought I'd mention it:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-01-21-job-cuts_N.htm
After numerous delays, msft finally releases their half-baked, stink-bomb Vista. It was such a disaster that msft had to desperately scramble to get it half-way fixed, and change the name Win7. And this considered praise worthy?
Moonlight is just another msft scam to force msft standards on everybody. Please, we have all seen this before. Does moonlight even work on windows firefox?
I don't see msft's image as being changed at all.