Remotely locating your servers, requires several ultra high speed internet connections per office space. Otherwise you risk major amounts of downtime. Meanwhile local hosted servers can increase up-time, and increase available bandwidth on the cheap(wires in walls).
The price differential between cheap lower end business grade Inet connections, and high end fiber connections can be several thousand dollars a month or more. Also tack in the cost of very high end routers supporting large amounts of VPN traffic. Then let's not forget how much one must pay for the remote hosting sight..
The only time remote servers makes sense is when you have a application that faces a diversity of consumers already on the net.
This is not a recent phenomenon, all of my Intel LGA socket based laptops have died in 5 to 10 yr timeframe. Meanwhile, my AMD based laptops(upwards of 16 years old) are still functional.
Apple has claimed it's not vulnerable to e.g. sending IP packets directly to IP addresses if those IP packets are SIP packets, with no substantiation. SIP applications can use TLS as well, making packet inspection difficult.
Most carriers use NAT's to reduce down the number of IP addresses needed for servicing mobile phones. That NAT usage will also block most unsolicited incoming IP level traffic. I.E. Traffic originating on mobile teleco's VoIP network will get through and no one else., so this becomes a non-issue.
GMO/roundup exposed crops grown are deficient in minerals necessary for a healthy metabolism. While our bodies aren't directly affected by roundup residues. It kills off gut bacteria which symbiotically aids in our digestion.
I've dealt with dozens of lightning strikes here in lightning prone South Florida. Direct lightning strikes usually take out a Enet port on the switch and whatever is connected to the other end PC/laptop enet port.
Lost my laptop PCI cardbus bus devices, 1Gb enet, Wifi, memory card reader and a switch port on the other end.
Usually extra grounding, and multiple layers of surge suppressors/chokes protects my electronics.
Note: The ethernet spec, includes isolation requirements in the several Kilo Volt range. Thus something like this won't do much damage. You'll need something more like a HV stun weapon to do some real damage.
He got lucky, that these criminals aren't a bit smarter and invested a bit more effort into their hack. I.E.Adding a BT stealth mode.
Where the hacked modules shut down BT transmission, until they received certain mac id's. Which would make them completely undetectable except by close visual inspection.:-(
A somewhat reliable counter measure would be to, 1st, Separate the money loading into a different compartment that doesn't give access to the electronics. 2nd, Restrict down (people wise) and log all access to electronics section. 3rd, The moment the electronics bay is opened, the ATM is disabled. (Except for testing), until turned back on by head quarters. 4th, When the tech is done servicing the electronics sections he/she sends a time stamped photos of electronics+visible serial number+selfie (in front of locked up ATM still in diag mode) to HQ and then calls in to re-activate ATM
I see a number of errors in your claim. Fukushima has the potential to be 25 to 30x radio-nucleotide release greater than Chernobyl.
1st item, the single Chernobyl reactor(Unit 4) while somewhat higher power output core, was ~1/2 of combined power rating of the melted Fukushima cores(unit's 1,2,3)
2nd) Chernobyl unit 4 was newly constructed, and it's core burntime was still in it's infancy.. (~2yrs), It may or may not have undergone it's first refueling swap-out (~1/3 of the core). Meanwhile Fukushima involved 30+ year old reactors(Unit's 1,2, and 3), with 3 fully mature cores, upwards of 5 years of burn-time per core near the start of the next refueling cycle (I.E. ~Worse case for radio-nucleotides) .
3rd, Fukushima is far from over. all indications point to a melt through below the plant, into an subterranean river flow, which will end up carrying the contents of those melted cores into the pacific ocean.
3rd) Iodine-131 is still being detected onsite. I.E. fission is still occurring, thus Fukushima is still of moving target. Note: At relatively low neutron flux levels indicate that the fission yield of I-131 will be maximized(~6x greater)
4th) Unlike fallout on land, where isotope mobility is somewhat limited, the Pacific ocean is far more efficient in respect towards bio-concentration of radio isotopes up the food chain.
Be prepared to write off the food chain for Northern Pacific ocean for the next hundred years or so. It's being subjected to equivalent fallout of ALL Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons ever detonated (worldwide 1945-1980) by just this one incident.
huh?? Per your link, Earth receives 1.74E+17 watts from the sun.
Math time 1.74E+17 watts *365.24*24(hours in a year) == 1.21E+21 watt hours per year. 1.55E+17 Watt/hr/year(Humanity's Raw Energy Consumption) / 1.21E+21 Watt/hr/year (Sol's gift to earth) == 1.02E-4 . You're still on the high side by a factor of ~25x
Percent wise harvesting 0.01% of the sun's solar flux would more than service humanity energy requirements. Reminder, for the most part, we waste ~85% of RAW energy content. I.E. deduct ~33% digging up/mining/transporting/refining/etc. Then another ~75% converting fossil chemical into thermal energy first, then into kinetic, then optionally electrical energy(then back to kinetic) before it does any useful work.
Even of that 15% we don't waste directly, how much of that is dedicated to manufacturing infrastructure for all those non-renewable energy industries and military assets to defend them? Let's say we knock off another 33%, Humanity get's 10% useful work from all of our current energy harvesting efforts, thus shift that 0.01% solar harvest number down another order of magnitude to 0.001% to replace that 10%.
I.E. Directly harvesting 1/10,000th of the Sol's bounty directed towards earth will free humanity of a lot bad habits, and it will set the world toward a much more peaceful path in to the future.
lol. I purchased several with the express intent to not upgrade.
Same here, actually a number of my clients XP legacy apps have 16 bit installers, ergo no go Win 7 natively. These apps are installed in XPvirt boxes under Windows 7. I have no idea if Win 10 pro will support XPvirt boxes or if support for them will shortly disappear thereafter in some sort of forced update..
My advice to any business owner, would be to avoid this latest Win 10 release like the plague, they still don't have a stable build and it's less than 1 month before product release. I feel that using Win 10 is a high risk proposition at best, let someone else be the guinea pig.
I would not trust those Backblaze stats.. A quick inspection of blackblaze storage pods indicates an improper(vertical) mounting method.
This vertical configuration would likely cause a premature failure rate for drives that are designed for side or horizontal(preferred) mounting configurations.
Disk drives drive mounted in this particular vertical configuration places abnormal amounts of thermal and mechanical related stress (the entire mass of drive+internal movements) on the SATA Power and Data connections (a condition they were never rated for).
Note: You can probably get away with this type fixed mount configurations(SATA+Power) for 2.5" SATA drives since they have significantly reduced mass (20x less)) per drive. I've designed many different types of drive bays(SCSI, SAS, etc) and would never consider stressing connectors in this manor.
In summary, The observed failure rate may be more indicative of an improper storage array design, rather than the drives themselves, which may have faster seek times, resulting in increased dynamic forces stressing the SATA connections over time.
The radiator fins of the RTG would have probably got stuck into the surface of dust of the comet. (I.E. Heaviest portion of SAT, center of gravity, and all that sort of stuff). Net result, even worse, no contact at all, as the now insulated radiator fins reach same temperature as heat source, generating virtually no electricity. And without backup solar panels, not contact at all.
IMHO, I 'm really beginning to Hate these nuke advocates who claim that Nuclear power is god's gift to man, when in fact is it is a curse that will plague humanity for thousands of years to some.
More than likely the Russians or Chinese figured out how to use one of the backdoors the NSA was using to hack US databases. It sure looks like the backdoor the NSA found into JUNOS(Juniper routers) using SCHOOLMONTANA, SIERRAMONTANA, STUCCOMONTANA,, would be easy pickens once they retrieved a code sample from an infected routers.
After that it's just a matter of time before they turn the tables and use that same vulnerability to hack our networks.
Snowden didn't post any files on the net.. He met his contacts in person in Hong Kong and hand delivered them (USB?) to Greenwald(reporter) and Poitras(film maker) in person. He claimed that he did not take any of NSA files on his laptops with him to Russia./P
Worse yet our insanely stupid farmers/Monsanto have found an even more dangerous way to poison us by using roundup on NON-GMO crops as a preharvest drying agent
The Tesla Powerwall battery packs is wired for a 350-400 volt range, and come bare bones except for some equalization circuitry, (no charger nor inverter). Any modifications to the battery pack itself would likely void the warranty. How ever adding a low voltage circuit does have it merits, but the Powerwall will not be a factor.
I have considered running a solar/battery backed up 32-35 volt DC supply into the house, and use a number of 5-pack LM2596S stepdown inverters. The adjustable nature of these DC buck converters can power DC fans, Security system, DVRs, Antenna amps, Sat boxes, night lights, laptops, LCD monitor, door bell, automation system, charging stations, etc. The higher distribution voltage keeps losses to a minimum while providing uninterrupted power.
Nearly all AMD CPU/APU's support ECC memory, you just need the right Mother Board... ASUS bios's have consistently supported AMD/ECC memory combinations for many years.
Not long ago, I configured a number of Phenom II X6 1045t and FX-8320 systems with 8-16GB of ECC memory on ASUS M4A88T-M and M5A78L-M motherboards. This link indicates the Zen series will support 4 channel ECC/DDR4.
After I rooted a new android phone. System updates have a nasty habit of screwing up my root access. Likewise, I've found most app updates usually screw up more than they fix. Thus, I opp for stability and predictability over the latest and greatest.
I pick and choose which app's & versions I will use, then I stick with that decision until I'm convinced otherwise. No need to follow the rest of the herd.
Try looking at some numbers that haven't been mangled by the feds.. FYI Ground beef is now 3.00$/lb, Rib-eye is 8.00$/lb, and still going up just like everything else. Here is a link explaining how our government mangled inflation stats.
If you need more proof, just look at the near zero interest rates for savings or short term CD's. That should be a red flag that all is not well.
"Chernobyl: a crazy design with a strongly positive void coefficient. No one else has ever made such designs, even before Chernobyl because it was always known to be dangerous."
Hmm.. which unit? not widely known, two meltdowns occurred at Chernobyl. NPP, Unit 1, September 9, 1982 and then the Unit 4 explosion April 26, 1986, which was hidden from world until the fallout trigger a Swedish radiation monitor.
Eight days days later, (May 4, 1986), a pebble fuel pellet got stuck in the piping in a German 750MWth, AVR PBM reactor. Efforts to dislodge the pellet caused a release of both core and coolant into the atmosphere. Local plant management tried to blame on the Chernobyl disaster. But a professor at a local university in Frelburg, analyzed the fallout which contained radioactive Pa-233 and determined that a second nuclear incident had occurred nearby.
So their is a list of three(3) incidents, each time management/government tried to cover up and there is much more.
Don't fooled, TMI unit II was only 4 months old when a valve got stuck and melted down.. Fukushima is the worst yet, three(3) fully mature reactor cores have melted down and now reside somewhere below the reactors, releasing deadly fission by products into an underground river flowing underneath it.
Millions of humans have succumbed to early death, and Ten's of millions more are suffering the consequences, and that is just the tip of iceberg. Their is nothing clean about Nuclear Power plants, each refueling cycle discharges a large amount of radioactive gas into the environment, and the effect is detectable in the surrounding population.
#4: There's massive amounts of stuff to do backups for UNIX.
That's odd.. I use Linux Mint/ddrescue to backup/restore images of Win OS partitions/disks all the time. WIndose doesn't have anything even close. I can even mount those NTFS file images as partitions and modify the contents as needed. Have you tried to mount a Ext-3/4 FS on windows lately?
M$ has a nasty habit stripping out long established features, obfuscates, cripples/breaks, and/or removes them, then monetizes it as a paid feature. I.E. Network users(>10,>20), Backups, SQL, Exchange, etc.. Meanwhile Linux/Open source rarely removes features and incorporates new features all the time.
Their is no such thing as internal distribution for a CORPORATION/VIRTUAL PERSON(non-pural).
Merely using Linux (by copying/distribution in anyform, subject's them to GPL license, like any other type of software. One always needs a valid license to even to just install a program, to do otherwise would make all M$ programs fair game to pirate.
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Remotely locating your servers, requires several ultra high speed internet connections per office space.
Otherwise you risk major amounts of downtime. Meanwhile local hosted servers can increase up-time, and increase available bandwidth on the cheap(wires in walls).
The price differential between cheap lower end business grade Inet connections, and high end fiber connections can be several thousand dollars a month or more. Also tack in the cost of very high end routers supporting large amounts of VPN traffic. Then let's not forget how much one must pay for the remote hosting sight..
The only time remote servers makes sense is when you have a application that faces a diversity of consumers already on the net.
This is not a recent phenomenon, all of my Intel LGA socket based laptops have died in 5 to 10 yr timeframe. Meanwhile, my AMD based laptops(upwards of 16 years old) are still functional.
I suspect that Turkey's actions are payback for Syria(Russia's proxy) shoot down of a Turkish F-4 reconnaissance jet (2012).
Note: The F-4 had left Syrian airspace approximately 4 minutes prior to the missile launch..
Apple has claimed it's not vulnerable to e.g. sending IP packets directly to IP addresses if those IP packets are SIP packets, with no substantiation. SIP applications can use TLS as well, making packet inspection difficult.
Most carriers use NAT's to reduce down the number of IP addresses needed for servicing mobile phones. That NAT usage will also block most unsolicited incoming IP level traffic. I.E. Traffic originating on mobile teleco's VoIP network will get through and no one else., so this becomes a non-issue.
Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT seams to be somewhat serious problem. for a product that was invented as a descaling agent to clean out calcium and other mineral deposits in pipes and boilers
GMO/roundup exposed crops grown are deficient in minerals necessary for a healthy metabolism. While our bodies aren't directly affected by roundup residues. It kills off gut bacteria which symbiotically aids in our digestion.
I've dealt with dozens of lightning strikes here in lightning prone South Florida.
Direct lightning strikes usually take out a Enet port on the switch and whatever is connected to the other end PC/laptop enet port.
Lost my laptop PCI cardbus bus devices, 1Gb enet, Wifi, memory card reader and a switch port on the other end.
Usually extra grounding, and multiple layers of surge suppressors/chokes protects my electronics.
Note: The ethernet spec, includes isolation requirements in the several Kilo Volt range. Thus something like this won't do much damage. You'll need something more like a HV stun weapon to do some real damage.
He got lucky, that these criminals aren't a bit smarter and invested a bit more effort into their hack. I.E.Adding a BT stealth mode.
Where the hacked modules shut down BT transmission, until they received certain mac id's. Which would make them completely undetectable except by close visual inspection. :-(
A somewhat reliable counter measure would be to,
1st, Separate the money loading into a different compartment that doesn't give access to the electronics.
2nd, Restrict down (people wise) and log all access to electronics section.
3rd, The moment the electronics bay is opened, the ATM is disabled. (Except for testing), until turned back on by head quarters.
4th, When the tech is done servicing the electronics sections he/she sends a time stamped photos of electronics+visible serial number+selfie (in front of locked up ATM still in diag mode) to HQ and then calls in to re-activate ATM
I see a number of errors in your claim. Fukushima has the potential to be 25 to 30x radio-nucleotide release greater than Chernobyl.
1st item, the single Chernobyl reactor(Unit 4) while somewhat higher power output core, was ~1/2 of combined power rating of the melted Fukushima cores(unit's 1,2,3)
2nd) Chernobyl unit 4 was newly constructed, and it's core burntime was still in it's infancy.. (~2yrs), It may or may not have undergone it's first refueling swap-out (~1/3 of the core). Meanwhile Fukushima involved 30+ year old reactors(Unit's 1,2, and 3), with 3 fully mature cores, upwards of 5 years of burn-time per core near the start of the next refueling cycle (I.E. ~Worse case for radio-nucleotides) .
3rd, Fukushima is far from over. all indications point to a melt through below the plant, into an subterranean river flow, which will end up carrying the contents of those melted cores into the pacific ocean.
3rd) Iodine-131 is still being detected onsite. I.E. fission is still occurring, thus Fukushima is still of moving target. Note: At relatively low neutron flux levels indicate that the fission yield of I-131 will be maximized(~6x greater)
4th) Unlike fallout on land, where isotope mobility is somewhat limited, the Pacific ocean is far more efficient in respect towards bio-concentration of radio isotopes up the food chain.
Be prepared to write off the food chain for Northern Pacific ocean for the next hundred years or so. It's being subjected to equivalent fallout of ALL Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons ever detonated (worldwide 1945-1980) by just this one incident.
Correction, fraction of Sol's output to replace Humanities raw energy consumption should be 1.28e-4 (Not 1.02E-4).
huh?? Per your link, Earth receives 1.74E+17 watts from the sun.
Math time
1.74E+17 watts *365.24*24(hours in a year) == 1.21E+21 watt hours per year.
1.55E+17 Watt/hr/year(Humanity's Raw Energy Consumption) / 1.21E+21 Watt/hr/year (Sol's gift to earth) == 1.02E-4 .
You're still on the high side by a factor of ~25x
Percent wise harvesting 0.01% of the sun's solar flux would more than service humanity energy requirements. Reminder, for the most part, we waste ~85% of RAW energy content. I.E. deduct ~33% digging up/mining/transporting/refining/etc. Then another ~75% converting fossil chemical into thermal energy first, then into kinetic, then optionally electrical energy(then back to kinetic) before it does any useful work.
Even of that 15% we don't waste directly, how much of that is dedicated to manufacturing infrastructure for all those non-renewable energy industries and military assets to defend them? Let's say we knock off another 33%, Humanity get's 10% useful work from all of our current energy harvesting efforts, thus shift that 0.01% solar harvest number down another order of magnitude to 0.001% to replace that 10%.
I.E. Directly harvesting 1/10,000th of the Sol's bounty directed towards earth will free humanity of a lot bad habits, and it will set the world toward a much more peaceful path in to the future.
lol. I purchased several with the express intent to not upgrade.
Same here, actually a number of my clients XP legacy apps have 16 bit installers, ergo no go Win 7 natively. These apps are installed in XPvirt boxes under Windows 7. I have no idea if Win 10 pro will support XPvirt boxes or if support for them will shortly disappear thereafter in some sort of forced update..
My advice to any business owner, would be to avoid this latest Win 10 release like the plague, they still don't have a stable build and it's less than 1 month before product release. I feel that using Win 10 is a high risk proposition at best, let someone else be the guinea pig.
I would not trust those Backblaze stats.. A quick inspection of blackblaze storage pods indicates an improper(vertical) mounting method.
This vertical configuration would likely cause a premature failure rate for drives that are designed for side or horizontal(preferred) mounting configurations.
Disk drives drive mounted in this particular vertical configuration places abnormal amounts of thermal and mechanical related stress (the entire mass of drive+internal movements) on the SATA Power and Data connections (a condition they were never rated for).
Note: You can probably get away with this type fixed mount configurations(SATA+Power) for 2.5" SATA drives since they have significantly reduced mass (20x less)) per drive. I've designed many different types of drive bays(SCSI, SAS, etc) and would never consider stressing connectors in this manor.
In summary, The observed failure rate may be more indicative of an improper storage array design, rather than the drives themselves, which may have faster seek times, resulting in increased dynamic forces stressing the SATA connections over time.
The radiator fins of the RTG would have probably got stuck into the surface of dust of the comet. (I.E. Heaviest portion of SAT, center of gravity, and all that sort of stuff). Net result, even worse, no contact at all, as the now insulated radiator fins reach same temperature as heat source, generating virtually no electricity. And without backup solar panels, not contact at all.
IMHO, I 'm really beginning to Hate these nuke advocates who claim that Nuclear power is god's gift to man, when in fact is it is a curse that will plague humanity for thousands of years to some.
Why would the NSA hack US Government databases?
Tthe NSA supplied to our rivals (Russia, China), the method (network analyzer capturing the hack in action), and the means (sample code via core dump) to take over some very widely used Juniper routers. Once you have full control of the router, hacking any database traffic transiting through it is trivial.
As with all secrets, they are ephemeral (short lived), and one must be prepared for rivals to turn the tables.
Which the US did not prepare for.
More than likely the Russians or Chinese figured out how to use one of the backdoors the NSA was using to hack US databases. It sure looks like the backdoor the NSA found into JUNOS(Juniper routers) using SCHOOLMONTANA, SIERRAMONTANA, STUCCOMONTANA,, would be easy pickens once they retrieved a code sample from an infected routers.
After that it's just a matter of time before they turn the tables and use that same vulnerability to hack our networks.
It's more likely that "Chinese hack of federal personnel files included security-clearance database" was responsible for the recall.
Snowden didn't post any files on the net.. He met his contacts in person in Hong Kong and hand delivered them (USB?) to Greenwald(reporter) and Poitras(film maker) in person. He claimed that he did not take any of NSA files on his laptops with him to Russia./P
Their is plenty of evidence that GMO's are very harmful, like being deficient in trace minerals. The World Health Organization has declared Roundup to be a likely carcinogen
Worse yet our insanely stupid farmers/Monsanto have found an even more dangerous way to poison us by using roundup on NON-GMO crops as a preharvest drying agent
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The Tesla Powerwall battery packs is wired for a 350-400 volt range, and come bare bones except for some equalization circuitry, (no charger nor inverter). Any modifications to the battery pack itself would likely void the warranty. How ever adding a low voltage circuit does have it merits, but the Powerwall will not be a factor.
I have considered running a solar/battery backed up 32-35 volt DC supply into the house, and use a number of 5-pack LM2596S stepdown inverters. The adjustable nature of these DC buck converters can power DC fans, Security system, DVRs, Antenna amps, Sat boxes, night lights, laptops, LCD monitor, door bell, automation system, charging stations, etc. The higher distribution voltage keeps losses to a minimum while providing uninterrupted power.
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Nearly all AMD CPU/APU's support ECC memory, you just need the right Mother Board... ASUS bios's have consistently supported AMD/ECC memory combinations for many years.
Not long ago, I configured a number of Phenom II X6 1045t and FX-8320 systems with 8-16GB of ECC memory on ASUS M4A88T-M and M5A78L-M motherboards. This link indicates the Zen series will support 4 channel ECC/DDR4.
After I rooted a new android phone. System updates have a nasty habit of screwing up my root access. Likewise, I've found most app updates usually screw up more than they fix. Thus, I opp for stability and predictability over the latest and greatest.
I pick and choose which app's & versions I will use, then I stick with that decision until I'm convinced otherwise. No need to follow the rest of the herd.
Carly Fiorina in January 2004 meeting to head off rising protectionist sentiment in Congress, stated "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore" on the topic of H1-B's in the USA
It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for Carly.
If one under-reports the real inflation rate, the net difference appears to be economic growth.
Try looking at some numbers that haven't been mangled by the feds.. FYI Ground beef is now 3.00$/lb, Rib-eye is 8.00$/lb, and still going up just like everything else. Here is a link explaining how our government mangled inflation stats.
If you need more proof, just look at the near zero interest rates for savings or short term CD's. That should be a red flag that all is not well.
"Chernobyl: a crazy design with a strongly positive void coefficient. No one else has ever made such designs, even before Chernobyl because it was always known to be dangerous."
Hmm.. which unit? not widely known, two meltdowns occurred at Chernobyl. NPP, Unit 1, September 9, 1982 and then the Unit 4 explosion April 26, 1986, which was hidden from world until the fallout trigger a Swedish radiation monitor.
Eight days days later, (May 4, 1986), a pebble fuel pellet got stuck in the piping in a German 750MWth, AVR PBM reactor. Efforts to dislodge the pellet caused a release of both core and coolant into the atmosphere. Local plant management tried to blame on the Chernobyl disaster. But a professor at a local university in Frelburg, analyzed the fallout which contained radioactive Pa-233 and determined that a second nuclear incident had occurred nearby.
So their is a list of three(3) incidents, each time management/government tried to cover up and there is much more.
Don't fooled, TMI unit II was only 4 months old when a valve got stuck and melted down.. Fukushima is the worst yet, three(3) fully mature reactor cores have melted down and now reside somewhere below the reactors, releasing deadly fission by products into an underground river flowing underneath it.
Millions of humans have succumbed to early death, and Ten's of millions more are suffering the consequences, and that is just the tip of iceberg. Their is nothing clean about Nuclear Power plants, each refueling cycle discharges a large amount of radioactive gas into the environment, and the effect is detectable in the surrounding population.
#4: There's massive amounts of stuff to do backups for UNIX.
That's odd.. I use Linux Mint/ddrescue to backup/restore images of Win OS partitions/disks all the time. WIndose doesn't have anything even close. I can even mount those NTFS file images as partitions and modify the contents as needed. Have you tried to mount a Ext-3/4 FS on windows lately?
M$ has a nasty habit stripping out long established features, obfuscates, cripples/breaks, and/or removes them, then monetizes it as a paid feature. I.E. Network users(>10,>20), Backups, SQL, Exchange, etc.. Meanwhile Linux/Open source rarely removes features and incorporates new features all the time.
Their is no such thing as internal distribution for a CORPORATION/VIRTUAL PERSON(non-pural).
Merely using Linux (by copying/distribution in anyform, subject's them to GPL license, like any other type of software. One always needs a valid license to even to just install a program, to do otherwise would make all M$ programs fair game to pirate.