This certainly has a lot of parallels to Open Source vs Closed Source software.
The parallel where you obtain the source and cannot distribute it to others (source license) and not being able to copy the seeds via natural reproduction draws on all the reasons why open source is preferable.
Just on another note is there any reason why the seeds could not be modified to remove the "terminnator" gene (or bug) from seeds that their customers purchase (If this is indeed possible?) or were they intending to only authorise licensed use of their seeds.
I can see the seed packet instructions:
Instructions for use: Just add water
Reverse Engineering this product will invalidate your warranty and does not constitute it's intended use by the manufacturer.
If my memory serves me correctly Linux has been adopted as the development platform for the Playstation II.
Looking back at the success of the PC/Windows/DOS etc... it is probably safe to say that games was the driving factor. Consumers purchase PCs for home use and their main reason is for games, they might justify their expenditure, because the PC can be used for Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Internet Access (versatility), but I believe that the main reason is entertainment and that means games.
So, what can we do to encourage the expansion of development and the production of games titles that will eventually guarantee the adoption of Linux?
We must make the development of entertainment software for Linux as easy as possible. We have to support the latest dedicated hardware accelerations to keep up with the competition, which will shortly be engulfed by further console releases.
I think we should also support the entertainment corporations who have already started developing entertainment software for Linux (Loki for instance) perhaps even arrange communication lines between the developers of the games and the developers of system projects within the Linux development teams to ensure that we minimise the use of proprietary routines which could be GPLd and made available to all.
I still think there is still space for platform emulators, at least going as far back as the 16-bit console era (some of those games were really playable and still are!)
I hope someone will come forward to manage such projects I have described, and sadly, I wish I had mroe time.
The comission for VISA or AMEX or Mastercard is tangible - they are protecting the transaction. Microsoft are charging to provide the VISA/AMEX or Mastercard details to the retailer when the customer requests it. Which is simply Microsoft barging into the relationship between the vendor and the customer.
What!!!, you mean that Microsoft will tax all Internet spending when done via e-wallets? That is outrageous. It makes me sick, I might even boycott using the internet at all if that went through.
I'm sorry if this seems like Microsoft bashing, but it is a ridiculous that a single corporation can "invent" currency on the internet and then globally tax all expenditure on it, which is what this amounts to.
We also have the security implications, just imagine is someone breached their database... and downloaded 2 billion credit card details, another billion debit and bank details.
We have to fight against even the thought of this becoming the case.
fear not. Not all users are looking for the cheapest PC they can find. Look at the specifications of these machines closely and you will say to yourself well, I need a monitor - and a good one will double the price of the PC! If you do get a good one then perhaps you might want a better graphics card. You want graphics? perhaps you should get a beeter CPU and more system memory. Well, there's no point having a PC if you can't load software onto it so you should also add a CD-ROM, if you're going to get CD-ROM you may as well take advantage and get DVD. Want to ensure your data is safe? then perhaps you should look at SCSI and RAID 5 arrays or perhaps a backup drive will suit you.
These $200 PCs are so stripped down that it's not really worth buying if you're seriously looking at running Linux. I used to work for a Taiwanese manufacturer: they once decided to remove a 25Mhz clock from one of their sound board and wire the circuit to a 33Mhz clock, small problem however, when you sampled sound at 11Khz, you would have to play it back at 8khz on other sound cards to get the sample to sound right!
Sometimes it's always better to pay a little premium, just to ensure good workmanship and guarantee.
If you're looking to get into the system integrator business then I would recommend that you concentrate your marketing and production on quality, leave these tacky PC makers to waddle in their own £$%*.
Recently on.tv (bSkyb Television's IT channel here in the UK) they had an advert explaining the difference between cracker and hacker - I was proud and I thought that the GP had heard the squealings of hackers, that they should be differentiated from crackers, but no, MTV, the mainstream dead-head TV of america have done it again.
I really can't be bothered, ironing my clothes that much - the next time I'm going to have to trail the tightrope behind our racks to check the Leds on our NTU's I'm going to get covered in dust. Or when I have to kneel down under the desk to check the power/network cable hasn't been knocked out of the wall I will find my clothes covered in dust and god knows what. Now if I spent all day sitting in a chair, answering the phone, meeting with customers then obviously I would have to take a different approach, but you wouldn't find me checking the NTU LEDs again...
I guess that's the difference between management and "techies", we do the dirty work to get things working again. Who would we be trying to kid by turning up in a suit all the time. Don't get me wrong we should be the most valued members of the company.
While on the subject here's a humour-mail I got today which is (kinda) on-topic:
Translating Management Speak
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: That's very interesting. TRANSLATION: I disagree.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: "I don't disagree." TRANSLATION: "I disagree."
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I don't totally disagree with you. TRANSLATION: You may be right, but I don't care.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You have to show some flexibility. TRANSLATION: You have to do it whether you want to or not.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have an opportunity. TRANSLATION: You have a problem.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You obviously put a lot of work into this. TRANSLATION: This is awful.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: In a perfect world. TRANSLATION: Just get it working and get it out the door.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Help me to understand. TRANSLATION: I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't think you do either.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You just don't understand our business. TRANSLATION: We don't understand our business.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You need to see the big picture. TRANSLATION: My boss thinks it's a good idea.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: My mind is made up. I am adamant on the subject. There is no room for discussion. But if you do want to discuss it further, my door is always open. TRANSLATION: &%^$ you.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I appreciate your contribution. TRANSLATION: @#%* you!
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We're going to follow a strict methodology here. TRANSLATION: We're going to do it my way.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I didn't understand the e-mail you said you sent. Can you give me a quick summary? TRANSLATION: I still can't figure out how to start the e-mail program.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Cost of ownership has become a significant issue in desktop computing. TRANSLATION: We want all of the benefits and none of the costs.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have to leverage our resources. TRANSLATION: You're working weekends.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Individual contributor. TRANSLATION: Employee who does real work.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Your project is on hold. TRANSLATION: We've put a bullet in it.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Wrong answer. TRANSLATION: You didn't tell me what I wanted to hear.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You needed to be more proactive. TRANSLATION: You should have protected me from myself.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'd like your buy-in on this. TRANSLATION: I want someone else to blame when this thing bombs.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We want you to be the executive champion of this project. TRANSLATION: I want to be able to blame you for my mistakes.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We need to syndicate this decision. TRANSLATION: We need to spread the blame if it backfires.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have to put on our marketing hats. TRANSLATION: We have to put ethics aside.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: It's not possible. It's impractical. It won't work. TRANSLATION: I don't know how to do it.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: It's a no-brainer. TRANSLATION: It's a perfect decision for me to handle.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'm glad you asked me that. TRANSLATION: Public relations has written a carefully phrased answer.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I see you involved your peers in developing your proposal. TRANSLATION: One person couldn't possibly come up with something this stupid.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: There are larger issues at stake. TRANSLATION: I've made up my mind so don't bother me with the facts.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'll never lie to you. TRANSLATION: The truth will change frequently.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Our business is going through a paradigm shift. TRANSLATION: We have no idea what we've been doing, but in the future we shall do something completely different.
I guess not. But in the case of The Well, which is a pay-for service, there is some vetting. You need to give them a cheque or credit card details, which bears your identity. Obviously it's easy to deceive people on the net, and it is more of an issue, because there is seldom a way of tracking this down.
I have nothing against anonymity, obviously however, there is a problem if the anonymity is abused. Wasn't it funet.fi who used to provide an anonymous posting service for usenet? Didn't it get closed down because of abuse.
Aliases have a down side too, in that anyone can dump their old identity and resurface under a different one. I did this when I left university, eight years ago. Simply to disassociate myself with comments that I might have left on Usenet which might come back to haunt me in a corporate environment.
In the hands of lower, lamer, individuals, however, the ability to change your identity can lead to havoc.
Real Names have the advantage that you know the person has thought about what they are writing and will be more conservative in their comments.
My understanding for the categorisation was that they represent separate databases. When a server resolves a name it checks to see which database it should look in, it then strips off the.net.com or whatever and searches that database for the relevant string.
Because the database is split up into smaller components the search is faster than it would be if there was no categorisation.
Strangely this means that the most obscure top levels should resolve fastest...
Back to your point if we didn't have any structure and anybody could register a top level domain then our Internet would be practicaly unusable. Besides you would proabably find that you would be responsible for the authorative resolution of your.shmoe domain. Which would mean you would have to have a server connected and maintained for your domain to even work.
Now what is this TLDNS stuff? The web link you gave me doesn't seem to really explain what it does and I'm hardly one to blindly install software I download to find out what it does.
PS I did echo "hmm" >.sig in Winnt and it worked for me.
it's about time we didn't even need keyboards. who wants to use their fingers to write text all the time anyway.
The Dvorrak vs. QWERTY case reminds me of the VHS vs Betamax case. It's not necessarily the best that wins, it's what gets the support at the end of the day. I feel that if I start to adapt to a Dvorak keyboard it will probably mess up my brain even more. I'm left-handed and living in a right handed world is enough of a pain as is.
Well he seems pretty sure that no one has breached their outside firewall. How can he be so sure though?
Similar to: 90% crime is never reported -> 90% of hackers are never detected...
I can understand the reason for using a Multilayer firewall to build a secure demilitarised zone in your network, but if you are accepting incoming packets through both firewalls to your internal network then the method of exploiting is exactly the same, say, as if you have 1,3 or 100 layers of firewalls, because the packets will pass through them all (assuming they match the firewall criteria as valid packets)
I expect plenty of hackers are now also armed with the extra information that there is another firewall beyond the first, because if they get access to a host within the demilitarised zone they now know what to look for (another firewall).
AMD not doing well financially
on
700 MHz Athlon
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· Score: 1
This is really a big shame, as every one of my experience of their CPUs has shown that they beat intel's equivalent chips on performance.
I installed Sun Solaris 2.6 on my ix86 based machine. I had problems with the GUI (to the extent that it was unusable), due to my video card not being fully supported - there was little technical support for this problem here, because even if Solaris is free support isn't. A compiler wasn't installed by default and I couldn't find a solaris version. I was limited to CDE as a Window manager, which I have to say I don't really like (personal preference, I guess)
Basicly, it isn't just the case that Linux that is free. It's also the distributions that pack everything up for you in a nice little CD and install things in a way that you simply wouldn't be able to do with Solaris. Linux support is always freely available. Albeit sometimes of limited quality.
I would venture to say now, that with the name that Linux has made for itself that it has become a free standing entity which doesn't need to rely on the fact that it is a UN*X to survive. With this fact, I think it therefore follows that if other UN*X change their marketing structure, then it is unlikely to kill of Linux entirely.
In short, with the troubles I've had with Solaris and the troubles (and solutions) I've experienced with Linux, then Linux wins hands down.
I take your point, but I think they're going to release the Update to CTP for free. So, Loki arn't going to make money on this one, but People who have bought CTP will get more out of it.
I wouldn't say that this is anything to do with net controls. It seems more the concern of truancy and deliquancy. The curfew hours are 7am-5pm. So the kids can go to the Cafes and stay there all night?
I disagree. What Lindy is saying here is that Compaq are supporting too much of a diversity of operating systems and architectures. Each requiring it's own development and support, which costs money. Because, as you say, they are niche markets this makes them uneconomical to support. And he didn't even mention Microsoft. Can we sit back and not assume that every corporate body is out to get the Linux community.
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This certainly has a lot of parallels to Open Source vs Closed Source software.
The parallel where you obtain the source and cannot distribute it to others (source license) and not being able to copy the seeds via natural reproduction draws on all the reasons why open source is preferable.
Just on another note is there any reason why the seeds could not be modified to remove the "terminnator" gene (or bug) from seeds that their customers purchase (If this is indeed possible?) or were they intending to only authorise licensed use of their seeds.
I can see the seed packet instructions:
Instructions for use:
Just add water
Reverse Engineering this product will invalidate your warranty and does not constitute it's intended use by the manufacturer.
If my memory serves me correctly Linux has been adopted as the development platform for the Playstation II.
Looking back at the success of the PC/Windows/DOS etc... it is probably safe to say that games was the driving factor. Consumers purchase PCs for home use and their main reason is for games, they might justify their expenditure, because the PC can be used for Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Internet Access (versatility), but I believe that the main reason is entertainment and that means games.
So, what can we do to encourage the expansion of development and the production of games titles that will eventually guarantee the adoption of Linux?
We must make the development of entertainment software for Linux as easy as possible. We have to support the latest dedicated hardware accelerations to keep up with the competition, which will shortly be engulfed by further console releases.
I think we should also support the entertainment corporations who have already started developing entertainment software for Linux (Loki for instance) perhaps even arrange communication lines between the developers of the games and the developers of system projects within the Linux development teams to ensure that we minimise the use of proprietary routines which could be GPLd and made available to all.
I still think there is still space for platform emulators, at least going as far back as the 16-bit console era (some of those games were really playable and still are!)
I hope someone will come forward to manage such projects I have described, and sadly, I wish I had mroe time.
It's not the same,
The comission for VISA or AMEX or Mastercard is tangible - they are protecting the transaction. Microsoft are charging to provide the VISA/AMEX or Mastercard details to the retailer when the customer requests it. Which is simply Microsoft barging into the relationship between the vendor and the customer.
What!!!, you mean that Microsoft will tax all Internet spending when done via e-wallets? That is outrageous. It makes me sick, I might even boycott using the internet at all if that went through.
I'm sorry if this seems like Microsoft bashing, but it is a ridiculous that a single corporation can "invent" currency on the internet and then globally tax all expenditure on it, which is what this amounts to.
We also have the security implications, just imagine is someone breached their database... and downloaded 2 billion credit card details, another billion debit and bank details.
We have to fight against even the thought of this becoming the case.
fear not. Not all users are looking for the cheapest PC they can find. Look at the specifications of these machines closely and you will say to yourself well, I need a monitor - and a good one will double the price of the PC! If you do get a good one then perhaps you might want a better graphics card. You want graphics? perhaps you should get a beeter CPU and more system memory. Well, there's no point having a PC if you can't load software onto it so you should also add a CD-ROM, if you're going to get CD-ROM you may as well take advantage and get DVD. Want to ensure your data is safe? then perhaps you should look at SCSI and RAID 5 arrays or perhaps a backup drive will suit you.
These $200 PCs are so stripped down that it's not really worth buying if you're seriously looking at running Linux. I used to work for a Taiwanese manufacturer: they once decided to remove a 25Mhz clock from one of their sound board and wire the circuit to a 33Mhz clock, small problem however, when you sampled sound at 11Khz, you would have to play it back at 8khz on other sound cards to get the sample to sound right!
Sometimes it's always better to pay a little premium, just to ensure good workmanship and guarantee.
If you're looking to get into the system integrator business then I would recommend that you concentrate your marketing and production on quality, leave these tacky PC makers to waddle in their own £$%*.
learning something.
.tv (bSkyb Television's IT channel here in the UK) they had an advert explaining the difference between cracker and hacker - I was proud and I thought that the GP had heard the squealings of hackers, that they should be differentiated from crackers, but no, MTV, the mainstream dead-head TV of america have done it again.
Recently on
Why oh Why, When oh When.
It sucks...
Yeah, I know what you mean. Here in the UK I sometimes get the feeling that we're a province of the US...
Is that a bad hyperlink of has the server been slashdotted?
I really can't be bothered, ironing my clothes that much - the next time I'm going to have to trail the tightrope behind our racks to check the Leds on our NTU's I'm going to get covered in dust. Or when I have to kneel down under the desk to check the power/network cable hasn't been knocked out of the wall I will find my clothes covered in dust and god knows what.
Now if I spent all day sitting in a chair, answering the phone, meeting with customers then obviously I would have to take a different approach, but you wouldn't find me checking the NTU LEDs again...
I guess that's the difference between management and "techies", we do the dirty work to get things working again. Who would we be trying to kid by turning up in a suit all the time. Don't get me wrong we should be the most valued members of the company.
While on the subject here's a humour-mail I got today which is (kinda) on-topic:
Translating Management Speak
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: That's very interesting.
TRANSLATION: I disagree.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: "I don't disagree."
TRANSLATION: "I disagree."
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I don't totally disagree with you.
TRANSLATION: You may be right, but I don't care.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You have to show some flexibility.
TRANSLATION: You have to do it whether you want to or not.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have an opportunity.
TRANSLATION: You have a problem.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You obviously put a lot of work into this.
TRANSLATION: This is awful.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: In a perfect world.
TRANSLATION: Just get it working and get it out the door.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Help me to understand.
TRANSLATION: I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't think you do either.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You just don't understand our business.
TRANSLATION: We don't understand our business.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You need to see the big picture.
TRANSLATION: My boss thinks it's a good idea.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: My mind is made up. I am adamant on the subject. There is no room for discussion. But if you do want to discuss it further, my door is always open.
TRANSLATION: &%^$ you.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I appreciate your contribution.
TRANSLATION: @#%* you!
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We're going to follow a strict methodology here.
TRANSLATION: We're going to do it my way.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I didn't understand the e-mail you said you sent. Can you give me a quick summary?
TRANSLATION: I still can't figure out how to start the e-mail program.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Cost of ownership has become a significant issue in desktop computing.
TRANSLATION: We want all of the benefits and none of the costs.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have to leverage our resources.
TRANSLATION: You're working weekends.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Individual contributor.
TRANSLATION: Employee who does real work.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Your project is on hold.
TRANSLATION: We've put a bullet in it.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Wrong answer.
TRANSLATION: You didn't tell me what I wanted to hear.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You needed to be more proactive.
TRANSLATION: You should have protected me from myself.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'd like your buy-in on this.
TRANSLATION: I want someone else to blame when this thing bombs.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We want you to be the executive champion of this project.
TRANSLATION: I want to be able to blame you for my mistakes.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We need to syndicate this decision.
TRANSLATION: We need to spread the blame if it backfires.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: We have to put on our marketing hats.
TRANSLATION: We have to put ethics aside.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: It's not possible. It's impractical. It won't work.
TRANSLATION: I don't know how to do it.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: It's a no-brainer.
TRANSLATION: It's a perfect decision for me to handle.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'm glad you asked me that.
TRANSLATION: Public relations has written a carefully phrased answer.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I see you involved your peers in developing your proposal.
TRANSLATION: One person couldn't possibly come up with something this stupid.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: There are larger issues at stake.
TRANSLATION: I've made up my mind so don't bother me with the facts.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I'll never lie to you.
TRANSLATION: The truth will change frequently.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Our business is going through a paradigm shift.
TRANSLATION: We have no idea what we've been doing, but in the future we shall do something completely different.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Value-added.
TRANSLATION: Expensive.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Human Resources.
TRANSLATION: A bulk commodity, like lentils or cinder blocks.
MANAGEMENT SPEAK: The upcoming reductions will benefit the vast majority of employees.
TRANSLATION: The upcoming reductions will benefit me.
I guess not. But in the case of The Well, which is a pay-for service, there is some vetting. You need to give them a cheque or credit card details, which bears your identity. Obviously it's easy to deceive people on the net, and it is more of an issue, because there is seldom a way of tracking this down.
I have nothing against anonymity, obviously however, there is a problem if the anonymity is abused. Wasn't it funet.fi who used to provide an anonymous posting service for usenet? Didn't it get closed down because of abuse.
Aliases have a down side too, in that anyone can dump their old identity and resurface under a different one. I did this when I left university, eight years ago. Simply to disassociate myself with comments that I might have left on Usenet which might come back to haunt me in a corporate environment.
In the hands of lower, lamer, individuals, however, the ability to change your identity can lead to havoc.
Real Names have the advantage that you know the person has thought about what they are writing and will be more conservative in their comments.
Could just be some large object, doesn't necessarily imply that it is a planet.
What is the definition of a planet anyway, and what makes it different from an asteroid.
Isn't this the 3rd tenth planet to be discovered in as many years?
My understanding for the categorisation was that they represent separate databases. When a server resolves a name it checks to see which database it should look in, it then strips off the .net .com or whatever and searches that database for the relevant string.
.shmoe domain. Which would mean you would have to have a server connected and maintained for your domain to even work.
.sig in Winnt and it worked for me.
Because the database is split up into smaller components the search is faster than it would be if there was no categorisation.
Strangely this means that the most obscure top levels should resolve fastest...
Back to your point if we didn't have any structure and anybody could register a top level domain then our Internet would be practicaly unusable. Besides you would proabably find that you would be responsible for the authorative resolution of your
Now what is this TLDNS stuff? The web link you gave me doesn't seem to really explain what it does and I'm hardly one to blindly install software I download to find out what it does.
PS I did echo "hmm" >
hmm
it's about time we didn't even need keyboards. who wants to use their fingers to write text all the time anyway.
The Dvorrak vs. QWERTY case reminds me of the VHS vs Betamax case. It's not necessarily the best that wins, it's what gets the support at the end of the day. I feel that if I start to adapt to a Dvorak keyboard it will probably mess up my brain even more. I'm left-handed and living in a right handed world is enough of a pain as is.
What if I have a UK QWERTY keyboard?
Chuck,
Is flaming a hobby of yours?
:)
uh eh?
ermmm... yes, right, hmmm....
did you forget what you were reading?
and....
Japan - no nukes? ha, you DO make me laugh..., plenty of nuclear, perhaps no nukes...
Well he seems pretty sure that no one has breached their outside firewall. How can he be so sure though?
Similar to: 90% crime is never reported -> 90% of hackers are never detected...
I can understand the reason for using a Multilayer firewall to build a secure demilitarised zone in your network, but if you are accepting incoming packets through both firewalls to your internal network then the method of exploiting is exactly the same, say, as if you have 1,3 or 100 layers of firewalls, because the packets will pass through them all (assuming they match the firewall criteria as valid packets)
I expect plenty of hackers are now also armed with the extra information that there is another firewall beyond the first, because if they get access to a host within the demilitarised zone they now know what to look for (another firewall).
This is really a big shame, as every one of my experience of their CPUs has shown that they beat intel's equivalent chips on performance.
Can Slashdot do something to aid AMD?
I installed Sun Solaris 2.6 on my ix86 based machine. I had problems with the GUI (to the extent that it was unusable), due to my video card not being fully supported - there was little technical support for this problem here, because even if Solaris is free support isn't. A compiler wasn't installed by default and I couldn't find a solaris version. I was limited to CDE as a Window manager, which I have to say I don't really like (personal preference, I guess)
Basicly, it isn't just the case that Linux that is free. It's also the distributions that pack everything up for you in a nice little CD and install things in a way that you simply wouldn't be able to do with Solaris. Linux support is always freely available. Albeit sometimes of limited quality.
I would venture to say now, that with the name that Linux has made for itself that it has become a free standing entity which doesn't need to rely on the fact that it is a UN*X to survive. With this fact, I think it therefore follows that if other UN*X change their marketing structure, then it is unlikely to kill of Linux entirely.
In short, with the troubles I've had with Solaris and the troubles (and solutions) I've experienced with Linux, then Linux wins hands down.
I take your point, but I think they're going to release the Update to CTP for free. So, Loki arn't going to make money on this one, but People who have bought CTP will get more out of it.
I can't see how controls in one town in the Phillipines are going to affect the global internet, but then I gues Chaos theory predicts this... :)
I wouldn't say that this is anything to do with net controls. It seems more the concern of truancy and deliquancy. The curfew hours are 7am-5pm. So the kids can go to the Cafes and stay there all night?
I disagree. What Lindy is saying here is that Compaq are supporting too much of a diversity of operating systems and architectures. Each requiring it's own development and support, which costs money. Because, as you say, they are niche markets this makes them uneconomical to support. And he didn't even mention Microsoft. Can we sit back and not assume that every corporate body is out to get the Linux community.
The third line is not true, because there appears to be a typo. (humour, I guess)
The fifth line is not strictly true, because it is the Transmeta home page.
The seventh line is not true as the page is certainly there.
Is the second line the only true line?