You have got to be kidding. The DOJ will be all over this in front of a judge faster than T3. Microsoft seems to be working in some sort of fantasy world where they think they can take one monmopoly position and leverage it across the entire US economy. Well, I sure hope that the DOJ carves them up into little pieces (i.e. splits up Microsoft). This is flat out absurd.
It seems to me that there are just too many behemouth companies with their eye on complete control of the internet. AOL, Microsoft and AT&T being the most obvious at this point.
I am afraid that the only way that this is going to be prevented is through government regulation.
People like us should be careful of attacking the IP system. Patents are the reason a lot of companies fund R&D, thus giving us half a change to make a decent wage. Without patents Microsoft would just copy EVERYTHING.
Since when does buying a piece of software from a company establish a contractual obligation to make the software work? Hasn't Mr. Warnock ever read a shrink wrap license? Good god!
Spam should be flat out illegal. The abuse on some of the larger service providers is so bad that if your kid uses a chat room, the next day they will get 200 xxx spamvertisements. The only way to stop this is with some real punishement for the offenders, and those who host them.
Acutally, Xerox did sue several companies, including Apple. Theylost on the technical issue that they waited too long to sue, and thus through inaction lost their rights.
Instead of all this stuff with httpd in software, why not just build it into the hardware? That would fry the bacon, so to speak. Imagine a ATM card with a 1 gb RAM buffer caching your web pages ready to saturate any goddam bandwidth that you can find.
Seems to me to be the obvious way to do it. They you can apply the general purpose CPU stuff to creating dynamic content where needed.
Why is it that all PC companies can do is copy Apple? Why can't they come out with their own innovative designs and add something to the progress of the industry? This sort of blatant rip off is absurd. They can't even come up with their own color for crissakes.
Seriously, this is a slam dunk for Apple. You cannot just go around copying designs for consumer products like this - they are protected by both patent and trademark laws out the wazzoo. What these guys are doing is equivalent to releasing a cola drink in a coke bottle shaped clone and calling it Cokee-Coola. Can you imagine how quickly Coca-Cola Inc. would be on their case?
If this flies I am going out and start my own web site, and call it Slashdit, complete with exact copies of the page layout, news stories and everything.
After having lived and worked with the French for the past several years I must say that they are an amusingly eccentric nationality. They have a lot going for them - a very strong educational system, a healthy respect for engineers (they are one of the few countries that numbers several engineers amoung their national heros, including having Gustav Eiffel's portrait on some of their money). The top schools in the country are engineering schools, and they recieve a very healthy dose of math in their education. They have a very worthwhile culture, too - a lot of important contributions to the western way of life, and Paris really is a very beautiful city. Like most of the world they find themselves awash in a sea of American culture - which is of course decended from British culture, the long time enemies and rivals of the French.
The French have a very sensible way of living, with a good balance between cultural and economic activities - they are refreshingly not as materialistic as Americans, much to their credit. All in all I think that they provide a valuable counterpoint to the American way of thought, and I am glad that they try to preserve their culture. The thing we need in this world most of all are new and different ideas.
BUT they seem to be a little too backwards looking to my tastes - too much looking back to the glorious days when France ruled the Europe, when Napolean defeated the Brits at Waterloo and all that rather than trying to move forward and become a real player in the global economy. This bit about the prime meridian is a perfect example of the French way of holding on to the past - the meridian was established 100 years ago and was not French. Rather than realizing that you aren't going to change this, and move on to something else, they keep hanging on to something that is really over and done with. The French need to move forward onto something else rather than try to cling to some faded glory. The French also need to be a bit more open to other ways and cultures than they are - working with them is hell as they are not open at all to toleration of other ways of doing things. They are very autocratic (the French are traditionally and still emotionally a monarchy) and beauracratic (a French word devised during Napolean's time) which hinders their ability to get along with other cultures.
Almost every 'survey' of this ilk published claims that personal computers do nothing to improve productivity. Their methodology is fundamentally flawed. The US Treasury and Alan Greenspan have done real macroeconomic studies on the effect of computer technology on the US economy and have concluded that these technologies add 1-2% growth per year to the US economy by increased worker productivity. THIS IS HUGE!!. It is the same sort productivity increase that ius experienced during a major industrial revolution; it is what is propelling the HUGE budget surplusses and is allowing the rates of economic growth we are experiencing with low inflation.
These surveys look at microeconomic factors and are not fundamentally capable of discerning the real impact in prductivity that the entire technology convergence between computers, communications and business that is occurring.
FVWM is the most butt ugly thing on a desktop I have ever seen. If my dog looked like that I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards. The fact of the matter is that Linux needs some window dressing to attract users. Gnome is a valid effort along those lines.
I don't care what kind of software is coming to linux. Freed or not, the more the better. Some vertical market stuff isn't going to attract enough interest amoung the linux open source developers. Myself, I am REALLY looking forward to Codewarrior/linux. I use it already on my Macs and PCs, and love it. It's a natural for use with linux. Even though it's not free.
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You have got to be kidding. The DOJ will be all over this in front of a judge faster than T3. Microsoft seems to be working in some sort of fantasy world where they think they can take one monmopoly position and leverage it across the entire US economy. Well, I sure hope that the DOJ carves them up into little pieces (i.e. splits up Microsoft). This is flat out absurd.
It seems to me that there are just too many behemouth companies with their eye on complete control of the internet. AOL, Microsoft and AT&T being the most obvious at this point.
I am afraid that the only way that this is going to be prevented is through government regulation.
People like us should be careful of attacking the IP system. Patents are the reason a lot of companies fund R&D, thus giving us half a change to make a decent wage. Without patents Microsoft would just copy EVERYTHING.
Since when does buying a piece of software from a company establish a contractual obligation to make the software work? Hasn't Mr. Warnock ever read a shrink wrap license? Good god!
Spam should be flat out illegal. The abuse on some of the larger service providers is so bad that if your kid uses a chat room, the next day they will get 200 xxx spamvertisements. The only way to stop this is with some real punishement for the offenders, and those who host them.
Acutally, Xerox did sue several companies, including Apple. Theylost on the technical issue that they waited too long to sue, and thus through inaction lost their rights.
Instead of all this stuff with httpd in software, why not just build it into the hardware? That would fry the bacon, so to speak. Imagine a ATM card with a 1 gb RAM buffer caching your web pages ready to saturate any goddam bandwidth that you can find.
Seems to me to be the obvious way to do it. They you can apply the general purpose CPU stuff to creating dynamic content where needed.
Why is it that all PC companies can do is copy Apple? Why can't they come out with their own innovative designs and add something to the progress of the industry? This sort of blatant rip off is absurd. They can't even come up with their own color for crissakes.
Seriously, this is a slam dunk for Apple. You cannot just go around copying designs for consumer products like this - they are protected by both patent and trademark laws out the wazzoo. What these guys are doing is equivalent to releasing a cola drink in a coke bottle shaped clone and calling it Cokee-Coola. Can you imagine how quickly Coca-Cola Inc. would be on their case?
If this flies I am going out and start my own web site, and call it Slashdit, complete with exact copies of the page layout, news stories and everything.
Bullshit. There are only 122 million people in the world that speak French as a native language. Twice that many speak English in the US alone.
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French is ranked 9th in the world as a native language.
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After having lived and worked with the French for the past several years I must say that they are an amusingly eccentric nationality. They have a lot going for them - a very strong educational system, a healthy respect for engineers (they are one of the few countries that numbers several engineers amoung their national heros, including having Gustav Eiffel's portrait on some of their money). The top schools in the country are engineering schools, and they recieve a very healthy dose of math in their education. They have a very worthwhile culture, too - a lot of important contributions to the western way of life, and Paris really is a very beautiful city. Like most of the world they find themselves awash in a sea of American culture - which is of course decended from British culture, the long time enemies and rivals of the French.
The French have a very sensible way of living, with a good balance between cultural and economic activities - they are refreshingly not as materialistic as Americans, much to their credit. All in all I think that they provide a valuable counterpoint to the American way of thought, and I am glad that they try to preserve their culture. The thing we need in this world most of all are new and different ideas.
BUT they seem to be a little too backwards looking to my tastes - too much looking back to the glorious days when France ruled the Europe, when Napolean defeated the Brits at Waterloo and all that rather than trying to move forward and become a real player in the global economy. This bit about the prime meridian is a perfect example of the French way of holding on to the past - the meridian was established 100 years ago and was not French. Rather than realizing that you aren't going to change this, and move on to something else, they keep hanging on to something that is really over and done with. The French need to move forward onto something else rather than try to cling to some faded glory. The French also need to be a bit more open to other ways and cultures than they are - working with them is hell as they are not open at all to toleration of other ways of doing things. They are very autocratic (the French are traditionally and still emotionally a monarchy) and beauracratic (a French word devised during Napolean's time) which hinders their ability to get along with other cultures.
I kind of wonder if this says anything negative about the ability of the open source movement to develop large applications... kind of worrisome...
Almost every 'survey' of this ilk published claims that personal computers do nothing to improve productivity. Their methodology is fundamentally flawed. The US Treasury and Alan Greenspan have done real macroeconomic studies on the effect of computer technology on the US economy and have concluded that these technologies add 1-2% growth per year to the US economy by increased worker productivity. THIS IS HUGE!!. It is the same sort productivity increase that ius experienced during a major industrial revolution; it is what is propelling the HUGE budget surplusses and is allowing the rates of economic growth we are experiencing with low inflation.
These surveys look at microeconomic factors and are not fundamentally capable of discerning the real impact in prductivity that the entire technology convergence between computers, communications and business that is occurring.
Program size won't help you when you have a large amount of data to throw around. Raw uncompressed video is NOT going to work in a 64 MB laptop.
FVWM is the most butt ugly thing on a desktop I have ever seen. If my dog looked like that I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards. The fact of the matter is that Linux needs some window dressing to attract users. Gnome is a valid effort along those lines.
I don't care what kind of software is coming to linux. Freed or not, the more the better. Some vertical market stuff isn't going to attract enough interest amoung the linux open source developers. Myself, I am REALLY looking forward to Codewarrior/linux. I use it already on my Macs and PCs, and love it. It's a natural for use with linux. Even though it's not free.