So we like linux and dislike microsoft. quit your yappin'. if we know we're biased, what good are you doing by telling us? When you think about it, it's funny that a big company like IBM would resort to chalk grafitti. so quit whining.
I keep my palm in my pocket...does this mean I'd have to wear it, or a solar cell, somewhere on my clothes, or around my neck as a necklace? Seems to me that AAA batteries are easier/more convenient.
Once the information is "out there" in the Freenet network, it cannot ever be erased or retracted.
Now, if i understand how Freenet works, doesn't data that doesn't get used get erased? If you've got millions of possible checksums of the AIM.exe binary, you're going to need a lot of people using this to keep all those checksums active, right? And I don't know about you, but I don't see this catching on like wildfire. For me, using GAIM with the TOC protocol works well enough.
The libertarian in me agrees that we don't need more laws regulating this and that...so what are we left with?
Well, you could always find out if the company renting the software to you has a contingency plan, for what happens to their software if they go belly up. Granted, you'd probably have a hard time, as a customer, finding this kind of information out from the company, but if they wont provide it, you can always take your business to someone who will.
Even if they do promise continued support via some contingency plan, promises might be broken. Still it's better than no promise at all. If you do your business with a company you trust, even better.
"USB 2.0 support will not be included in the (final) version of Windows XP due to the fact that there is not a sufficient array of production-quality devices to test against," she wrote in an e-mail. "Microsoft will not ship support for a standard that they can't guarantee a great user experience on."
...but we will ship a product that can't guarantee a great user experience.
Second to none when it comes to macho military posturing, the U.S. can't say it's sorry for the accident and bring everybody home.
Look, I'm sure we can say we're sorry it happened, but should we say we're sorry we did it? Did we do it? We don't have all the facts yet, the Chinese do. And they're sure as hell not gonna admit it was their fault. That'd be very unlike them.
Well, when you work for a company...do you trash talk it in a big wide public forum? Probably not...
Same goes for saying anything negative about your company...do you want to create a PR nightmare by letting people know that you're not completely confident in your company? That is, assuming you're not fired immediately...
wow, that sounds like you're really bored. I read the first paragraph, then skipped down to the last (how does he write so much? and how many people read it all?).
i guess i agree with his point (if his point is what i read near the end, that p2p is cool, but not a revolution).
t does make one wonder, though, why he even bothered doing the interview.
We all know we're biased anti-microsoft, so I think you're asking the wrong question. Why did WE bother to even ask the questions? We know we're not going to get answers we like, and whatever answers we get, we will see as him being biased against us...
I think he did a good job with the interview. He knows he's walking into the flames, but he answered anyway. His answers may not make us happy, but so what? did you stop to realize that the Open Source movement isn't perfect? It's made of people...I've said it before, and I'll say it again...people are stupid! Yes, even in open source. What I see from this interview is that we've got some stuff right, they've got some stuff right, and there's obstacles in the way to getting all of our right stuff together...
How much do RedHat or Caldera really make from selling their distributions? It seems not very much. So in order for them to survive they rely on selling proprietary software, support, services, books, tee shirts, penguins etc.
Or better yet, maybe we should get sally struthers, and have a "Sponsor a Penguin" program where we get sent pictures of our penguin, and letters from our penguin, all for just pennies a day!
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Once the information is "out there" in the Freenet network, it cannot ever be erased or retracted.
Now, if i understand how Freenet works, doesn't data that doesn't get used get erased? If you've got millions of possible checksums of the AIM.exe binary, you're going to need a lot of people using this to keep all those checksums active, right? And I don't know about you, but I don't see this catching on like wildfire. For me, using GAIM with the TOC protocol works well enough.. . .
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Well, you could always find out if the company renting the software to you has a contingency plan, for what happens to their software if they go belly up. Granted, you'd probably have a hard time, as a customer, finding this kind of information out from the company, but if they wont provide it, you can always take your business to someone who will.
Even if they do promise continued support via some contingency plan, promises might be broken. Still it's better than no promise at all. If you do your business with a company you trust, even better.
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"USB 2.0 support will not be included in the (final) version of Windows XP due to the fact that there is not a sufficient array of production-quality devices to test against," she wrote in an e-mail. "Microsoft will not ship support for a standard that they can't guarantee a great user experience on."
...but we will ship a product that can't guarantee a great user experience.
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Look, I'm sure we can say we're sorry it happened, but should we say we're sorry we did it? Did we do it? We don't have all the facts yet, the Chinese do. And they're sure as hell not gonna admit it was their fault. That'd be very unlike them.
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Same goes for saying anything negative about your company...do you want to create a PR nightmare by letting people know that you're not completely confident in your company? That is, assuming you're not fired immediately...
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We all know we're biased anti-microsoft, so I think you're asking the wrong question. Why did WE bother to even ask the questions? We know we're not going to get answers we like, and whatever answers we get, we will see as him being biased against us...
I think he did a good job with the interview. He knows he's walking into the flames, but he answered anyway. His answers may not make us happy, but so what? did you stop to realize that the Open Source movement isn't perfect? It's made of people...I've said it before, and I'll say it again...people are stupid! Yes, even in open source. What I see from this interview is that we've got some stuff right, they've got some stuff right, and there's obstacles in the way to getting all of our right stuff together...
ok, enough ranting.
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Or better yet, maybe we should get sally struthers, and have a "Sponsor a Penguin" program where we get sent pictures of our penguin, and letters from our penguin, all for just pennies a day!
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