I'm guarnteed a job in IT just because I'm white? I had no idea. I could introduce you to many other long-term unemployed whites - all very experienced and well educated - although most are 40.
The author, who has an obvious agenda, ignores the fact that violating *any* software license (including Wasabi's) can get you into trouble.
Although you would never know it from the title, the article refers exclusively to people who *violate* the GPL. It's like saying that people who drive cars may face jail terms for DUI.
Take a look at Wasabi Systems website: "Wasabi Certified BSD, a certified, tested, and optimized version of the BSD operating system, offers the rich functionality of BSD Unix without Linux's troublesome GPL License." In other words Wasabi is a direct competitor with GPL'd software. Right on the front page of Wasabi's web-site they are bashing the GPL. Nothing like an unbiased "study" I always say. I wonder who wrote the article, no mention of that. Hmmm.
"If companies are violating the GPL, they dont have the right to use that software."
Is that even acurate? My understand of the GPL is that it does not restrict, only distribution.
Let's suppose you own a small company, you have 10 employees. A new technology comes that will cost you $2000 a year, and will eliminate the need for two of your employees; and save you $80K a year. Do you use that technology?
IMO: you would be a fool not to. If you don't use that technology, you can better believe your competitors will. And those competitors will operate more efficiently, and thereby put you right out of business - thereby eliminating the jobs for all of your employees - and you too.
If you have broadband, I would recomend the 100mb download. Upgrade the kernel, and change to testing or unstable, if you like. Then if you want a gui, do an apt-get x-window-system, and an apt-get icewm (or whatever) and you're in business. Have the system set up just for what you want, and no cruft.
It is a bit of work, but it's educational. And once you have you installation, you may never need to re-install, just keep upgrading.
The competition for cheap web-hosters must be off the scale. Yet, they all compete in the same way, offering more drive space, or more download amounts. It seems like somebody would try to differentiate themselves by adding products that are free anyway.
They all seem to want to offer PHP/MySQL. Couldn't they just as easily offer Python or Perl? And maybe PostgreSQL while they're at it? Python, Perl, and PostgreSQL, are all free, so why not?
Although my experience in PHP/MySQL is limited, I consider both to be inferior technologies. PHP syntax is inconsistant, and the developers of PHP seem hell-bent on constantly breaking backward compatibily. Unlike Perl, or Python, PHP seems to be limited to web development only. I don't like MySQL's goofy subset of SQL. I also don't like MySQL strange licensing scheme. I don't like MySQL's partnership with scox either.
hidden aganda Reader post by: R Me Posted on: January 9, 2006, 12:42 PM PST Story: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
this is a direct act to be able to go after political blogs. Recent legislation failed to be able to regulate blogs under political laws so a round-about-way was devised. Slimey politicians will always make sure they have the legal right to use their money and contacts to their best advantage and the unconnected disadvantage. These gutter slime feel it is their manifest right by reason of election.
Libertarians support governements. Libertains simply believe that governments should be minimized. Libertarians believe that governments should only do what governments are supposed to do.
No matter how much gates gives to charities, it doesn't change the fact that msft is an abusive monolopy.
Need I remind anybody here about msft long history of scams?
- fake video evidence in the DoJ trial.
- fake grass-roots campaign including letters from dead people.
- msft the real force behind the scox-scam.
- outright theft from stacker.
- The ODF fiasco in MA?
- Msft customers sued because of msft misdeeds in timeline case?
I could go on, the DR-DOS scam, the OS/2 scam, the QEMM scam, and so on.
Msft is little more than a purely crimminal organization. If you happen to a msft competitior you whould have to be an absolute fool not to be afraid of bill gates and crimminally abusive tactics - regardless of how much gates contributes to charity.
I think ibm has some agreement not to sue msft untill at least 2007. Also, with the present administration, the DoJ will take no action against msft. The scox-scam trials are set mid-2007. And when does Vista come out?
All the financing for this purely malicious lawsuit was provided by msft. Msft has cost IBM around $100MM in legal expenses, so far. Msft has also used this lawsuit in msft's smear campaign against Linux - which is a substantial part of IBM's business.
Msft has also used the scox-scam nuisance lawsuits to scare other companies from contributing to Linux. The message is crystal clear: "contribute to linux, and face a 5 year lawsuit nightmare that will cost you $100MM in legal fees, not to mention smearing your good name, and endless discovery."
Do msft actions seem to be in keeping with msft's agreement with the DoJ? I don't think so. The next administration may not think so either.
That was the theory three years ago, when IBM could have bought scox for $20MM. IBM wanted no part of it then, and after three years, and about $100MM spent by IBM, you can be absolutely certain that IBM wants no part of that scam company now.
When you buy scox, you buy lawsuits, lots of lawsuits. Scox has violated many companies, and many laws. Do you think IBM wants that? Do you think IBM wants all the ill will that comes with buying scox?
IBM's linux business is in the billions, the msft/scox nuisance lawsuit is hardly worth jeopordizing that.
"Oh man, they must be crazy! The lawsuits make no sense at all!" Right? Wrong, scox is being crazy like a fox. What scox is doing makes perfect sense.
At this point, the entire point of the scam is keep delaying. Msft's army of shills are screaming the message: "People are being sued for using Linux - don't use Linux." Of course the msft influenced tech-pop-media is leaving out the details, but most of the public isn't interested in the details.
There is also a very powerful object lesson being sent to other companies: "if you contribute to Linux, you better be ready to spend $100MM to fight a msft backed nuisance lawsuit. And you better be squeaky clean, because the discovery will never stop." How many companies want to bother with that? "Screw it. I was going to donate this code to Linux, but it just isn't worth the trouble."
McBride rakes in an easy $1MM a year. Scox market cap goes from $6MM to $70MM. Life is good for the scox scammers. Scox execs can lie, cheat, and steal, all they want. The USA bogo-justice system isn't going to do anything about it.
Remember, msft is the major player in the scox-scam. Msft is financing the entire thing. And remember that msft tried to keep that secret.
Frankly, when considering it's msft, I wonder if it's possible to be paranoid. Think of all the bizare and brazenly illegal activities that msft can been caught doing: fake grass campaigns - including letters from dead people, faked video evidence in DOJ trial, the entire ODF fiasco in MA. . .
That said, remember that Hatch's kid works for scox. Also remember that Hatch is on the judicial commitee, which means that Hatch has significant say-so over the careers of the federal judges in Utah.
Anybody familiar with the scox-scam knows that these judges have been insanely pro-scox from the start. The fact that obvious farce is still going strong after nearly three years speaks volumes. The trials don't even start for another 1.5 years.
These are rates from actual ads that I seen recently. In the case of the HTML development, they were looking for somebody to work just to gain the experience.
Frankly, it seems like this was posted by somebody in academia. Somebody totally out of touch with the real world.
I have worked in IT for 25 years. When an employer posts an ad asking for experience in C#, nothing else matters. This "know yourself" and "know the fundamentals" won't even get past the receptionist who does the initial screening.
Why does symantec suck so bad these days? I used to use Norton Utilities with MS-DOS, before windows 3.0 came out. I thought NU was great. I've been buying symantec systems works every year, except 2005. It started to suck too much. Now, I don't even use systemworks 2004, I prefer 2003.
I haven't seen squat for innovation in years. It is if they don't put any effort into it. It's just the same old product re-hashed, only it sucks worse.
Maybe symantec is just putting all of their effort into the enterprize sector?
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The DoJ completely changed msft's behavior by getting msft to promise to behave better. Right?
Considering how well that worked, why should 180 be treated any differently?
Zope is supposed to be some great product. But, when I do a search for Zope on dice.com, I might get one hit.
I get the feeling these php frameworks might be even more obscure.
Now, compare that to a product like ColdFusion.
I don't use any of those products. But, I've got to wonder.
I thought that jobs was switching to intel, in part, to get more life of apple notebook batteries.
I thought that intel had some low-power technology that apple wanted.
I have worked in IT over 25 years. I have seen this. It does happen.
I'm guarnteed a job in IT just because I'm white? I had no idea. I could introduce you to many other long-term unemployed whites - all very experienced and well educated - although most are 40.
The author, who has an obvious agenda, ignores the fact that violating *any* software license (including Wasabi's) can get you into trouble.
Although you would never know it from the title, the article refers exclusively to people who *violate* the GPL. It's like saying that people who drive cars may face jail terms for DUI.
Take a look at Wasabi Systems website: "Wasabi Certified BSD, a certified, tested, and optimized version of the BSD operating system, offers the rich functionality of BSD Unix without Linux's troublesome GPL License." In other words Wasabi is a direct competitor with GPL'd software. Right on the front page of Wasabi's web-site they are bashing the GPL. Nothing like an unbiased "study" I always say. I wonder who wrote the article, no mention of that. Hmmm.
"If companies are violating the GPL, they dont have the right to use that software."
Is that even acurate? My understand of the GPL is that it does not restrict, only distribution.
Let's suppose you own a small company, you have 10 employees. A new technology comes that will cost you $2000 a year, and will eliminate the need for two of your employees; and save you $80K a year. Do you use that technology?
IMO: you would be a fool not to. If you don't use that technology, you can better believe your competitors will. And those competitors will operate more efficiently, and thereby put you right out of business - thereby eliminating the jobs for all of your employees - and you too.
Why not just go with stright-up debian?
If you have broadband, I would recomend the 100mb download. Upgrade the kernel, and change to testing or unstable, if you like. Then if you want a gui, do an apt-get x-window-system, and an apt-get icewm (or whatever) and you're in business. Have the system set up just for what you want, and no cruft.
It is a bit of work, but it's educational. And once you have you installation, you may never need to re-install, just keep upgrading.
Aside from manufacturers, who is going to making money with RFID, and how?
I see very little demand for RFID consulting, will that change?
CompTIA has a new RFID+ certification. I can't see that be useful for anything more than a $15/hour installer.
>because Windows Media Player is aviable on every Windows box
But if you used a standard format, it would still be available for every windows box, as well as other platorms.
The competition for cheap web-hosters must be off the scale. Yet, they all compete in the same way, offering more drive space, or more download amounts. It seems like somebody would try to differentiate themselves by adding products that are free anyway.
They all seem to want to offer PHP/MySQL. Couldn't they just as easily offer Python or Perl? And maybe PostgreSQL while they're at it? Python, Perl, and PostgreSQL, are all free, so why not?
Although my experience in PHP/MySQL is limited, I consider both to be inferior technologies. PHP syntax is inconsistant, and the developers of PHP seem hell-bent on constantly breaking backward compatibily. Unlike Perl, or Python, PHP seems to be limited to web development only. I don't like MySQL's goofy subset of SQL. I also don't like MySQL strange licensing scheme. I don't like MySQL's partnership with scox either.
Interesting post on cnet:
hidden aganda
Reader post by: R Me
Posted on: January 9, 2006, 12:42 PM PST
Story: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
this is a direct act to be able to go after political blogs. Recent legislation failed to be able to regulate blogs under political laws so a round-about-way was devised. Slimey politicians will always make sure they have the legal right to use their money and contacts to their best advantage and the unconnected disadvantage. These gutter slime feel it is their manifest right by reason of election.
Libertarians support governements. Libertains simply believe that governments should be minimized. Libertarians believe that governments should only do what governments are supposed to do.
No matter how much gates gives to charities, it doesn't change the fact that msft is an abusive monolopy.
Need I remind anybody here about msft long history of scams?
- fake video evidence in the DoJ trial.
- fake grass-roots campaign including letters from dead people.
- msft the real force behind the scox-scam.
- outright theft from stacker.
- The ODF fiasco in MA?
- Msft customers sued because of msft misdeeds in timeline case?
I could go on, the DR-DOS scam, the OS/2 scam, the QEMM scam, and so on.
Msft is little more than a purely crimminal organization. If you happen to a msft competitior you whould have to be an absolute fool not to be afraid of bill gates and crimminally abusive tactics - regardless of how much gates contributes to charity.
This is on topic.
I think ibm has some agreement not to sue msft untill at least 2007. Also, with the present administration, the DoJ will take no action against msft. The scox-scam trials are set mid-2007. And when does Vista come out?
All the financing for this purely malicious lawsuit was provided by msft. Msft has cost IBM around $100MM in legal expenses, so far. Msft has also used this lawsuit in msft's smear campaign against Linux - which is a substantial part of IBM's business.
Msft has also used the scox-scam nuisance lawsuits to scare other companies from contributing to Linux. The message is crystal clear: "contribute to linux, and face a 5 year lawsuit nightmare that will cost you $100MM in legal fees, not to mention smearing your good name, and endless discovery."
Do msft actions seem to be in keeping with msft's agreement with the DoJ? I don't think so. The next administration may not think so either.
That was the theory three years ago, when IBM could have bought scox for $20MM. IBM wanted no part of it then, and after three years, and about $100MM spent by IBM, you can be absolutely certain that IBM wants no part of that scam company now.
When you buy scox, you buy lawsuits, lots of lawsuits. Scox has violated many companies, and many laws. Do you think IBM wants that? Do you think IBM wants all the ill will that comes with buying scox?
IBM's linux business is in the billions, the msft/scox nuisance lawsuit is hardly worth jeopordizing that.
"Oh man, they must be crazy! The lawsuits make no sense at all!" Right? Wrong, scox is being crazy like a fox. What scox is doing makes perfect sense.
At this point, the entire point of the scam is keep delaying. Msft's army of shills are screaming the message: "People are being sued for using Linux - don't use Linux." Of course the msft influenced tech-pop-media is leaving out the details, but most of the public isn't interested in the details.
There is also a very powerful object lesson being sent to other companies: "if you contribute to Linux, you better be ready to spend $100MM to fight a msft backed nuisance lawsuit. And you better be squeaky clean, because the discovery will never stop." How many companies want to bother with that? "Screw it. I was going to donate this code to Linux, but it just isn't worth the trouble."
McBride rakes in an easy $1MM a year. Scox market cap goes from $6MM to $70MM. Life is good for the scox scammers. Scox execs can lie, cheat, and steal, all they want. The USA bogo-justice system isn't going to do anything about it.
Remember, msft is the major player in the scox-scam. Msft is financing the entire thing. And remember that msft tried to keep that secret.
Frankly, when considering it's msft, I wonder if it's possible to be paranoid. Think of all the bizare and brazenly illegal activities that msft can been caught doing: fake grass campaigns - including letters from dead people, faked video evidence in DOJ trial, the entire ODF fiasco in MA. . .
That said, remember that Hatch's kid works for scox. Also remember that Hatch is on the judicial commitee, which means that Hatch has significant say-so over the careers of the federal judges in Utah.
Anybody familiar with the scox-scam knows that these judges have been insanely pro-scox from the start. The fact that obvious farce is still going strong after nearly three years speaks volumes. The trials don't even start for another 1.5 years.
These are rates from actual ads that I seen recently. In the case of the HTML development, they were looking for somebody to work just to gain the experience.
Frankly, it seems like this was posted by somebody in academia. Somebody totally out of touch with the real world.
I have worked in IT for 25 years. When an employer posts an ad asking for experience in C#, nothing else matters. This "know yourself" and "know the fundamentals" won't even get past the receptionist who does the initial screening.
Nobody is going to give you a clearance, you have to already have one.
It's like advising somebody: you need to get one those CEO jobs.
>>ODF is a tool used by MS competitors to try to win marketshare>in the guise of OSS
The guise? Why is ODF only the guise of OSS, and not the real thing?
Or was that last year?
Isn't this supposed to the year that Linux *really* takes off?
Why does symantec suck so bad these days? I used to use Norton Utilities with MS-DOS, before windows 3.0 came out. I thought NU was great. I've been buying symantec systems works every year, except 2005. It started to suck too much. Now, I don't even use systemworks 2004, I prefer 2003.
I haven't seen squat for innovation in years. It is if they don't put any effort into it. It's just the same old product re-hashed, only it sucks worse.
Maybe symantec is just putting all of their effort into the enterprize sector?
I say let msft keep their code closed. Who cares.