Furthermore, Microsoft would likely be a large offender of any patents.
That by itself is scary. Picture this scenario: SCO finds itself clientless by virtue of its own stupidity, they go bankrupt, and MS buys it. OpenGL 2.0, anybody?
Judging by what MS is currently doing in courts with the term "Windows," it's only a matter of time before they claim ownership of the term "Server," and force anybody else using the term to change their name.
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Are you a suspected terrorist? I'll bet these will show up shortly.
Just imagine the savings over black helicopters!
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Well, if a bunch of different hardware vendors were offering you free hardware, wouldn't you choose the best one?
As a new CS grad who knows lots of the latest technology buzzwords, I've been surprised at the number of openings there are for mainframe COBOL programmers. There are enough big mainframe apps out there (and few enough who know how to work with them) that there will probably be a demand for COBOL programmers for quite a while yet.
On the other hand, the same can probably be said about C or FORTRAN. With that many years of experience in the industry, I'm surprised you haven't gotten into management or consulting of some sort.
That does seem pretty steep, but consider how much licenses for WinXP and Office at about $600 per computer. (that's not even getting into annual license fees for XP)
It says they've already installed it on 10,000 systems and are planning to put it on a total of 100,000. So even at that seemingly ridiculous price, they've spent $180,000 instead of $6,000,000 on the first 10K systems, and in the long run will spend $180,000 instead of $60,000,000.
In addition to saving $59,820,000 (!!!) in software costs, I imagine that, like many of us in the U.S., they're able to extend the life of their older hardware for additional savings.
I'm not sure if it will make any difference in the lawsuit or not, but the term Mozilla was coined at Netscape because it was intended to be a "Mosaic Killer." The lizard and Godzilla references were secondary, weren't they?
I don't quite agree with your suggestions for responding to MS, but that is a very accurate description of how Microsoft treats its competitors AND its customers. It goes from "well, you need a license, but who's checking, wink wink," to "you have one month to show proof of compliance." From "Here, have a free media player with your OS" to "Oh, by the way we have permission to disable competing products on your computer."
MS makes some very useable software, but their business philosophy of "shortest possible path to having you by the balls" is more and more unappealing every day.
Those are interesting ideas, but I think it's a bit far to say that working for a living wage is the same as slavery. It's true that a few people have sufficient property and protection of that property to not have to work, but that doesn't mean that somehow it is every man's right not to work.
A slave isn't just someone who has to work, it is someone who has no human rights at all--no choice of where to live or work. In some sense the poor and uneducated are like slaves, but it is a mistake (and an insult to people who are forced into real slavery--yes, it does happen even today) to say that our current economic system is slavery of any kind.
Well, according to this cnet article, the IBM/Sony "Cell" chip, which is rumored to be the cpu for the PlayStation3, is capable of over a trillion calculations per second, or "roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz." if a Pentium 4 is close to 10 GFLOPS, then 100 times that would be close to a TFLOP. Pretty cool if it's true.
No, probably more like root records. AFAIK, there aren't any open-source collaborators working on those songs, but it's probably just a matter of time.
12. If you want to program an app for Linux, and don't wish to Open Source your application, simply write your own code. You don't even get this choice with Windows 200 SAK - you MUST write your own code.
That's a great thing to note, but in actuality, when an OEM or developer builds an application that is competing with other open source applications, it's at a big disadvantage if its source is closed. Certainly it's an option, but who when you've got a dozen choices for (good) open solutions, why would you be interested in a closed one?
Linux still doesn't have adequate support for winmodems. I burned a copy of Mandrake 7.2 and put it on my two-week-old system yesterday.
I was surprised when the installation went through without a hitch (7.1 crashed every time it probed my video card.)
I was excited when I saw the (pretty!) desktop and heard a startup sound.
I was puzzled when I couldn't get my dialup connection to work.
When I waded through the poor-English documentation on my Motorola SM56 PCI modem and discovered that "SM" stands for "winmodem" ("Software Modem") I was pissed off.
Yeah, this is a problem with my PC manufacturer (and with me--for not looking before I got it) but imagine all the people who got their computers at Wal-Mart trying to get their shiny new-fangled operating system on the internet, and it can't find their modem!
There are enough systems out there that this could cause a lot of people to have a negative view of Linux ("yeah, I tried Linux once, but I could never get it on the internet, Windows works fine, though") What good is a computer that can't get on the internet?
The cost of the operating system is only a small percentage of the overall total cost of ownership (TCO). In general Windows NT has proven to have a lower cost of ownership than UNIX. Previous studies have shown that Windows NT has 37 percent lower TCO than UNIX. There is no reason to believe that Linux is significantly different than other versions of UNIX when it comes to TCO.
The "previous study" cited here compares NT on Intel hardware with Solaris on SPARC. The hardware cost over $10k more per server, and the OS cost $9340 per server. (That's not even counting the other software!) I'd say that's reason enough to believe that Linux is "significantly different" to Solaris on SPARC when it comes to TCO.
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Furthermore, Microsoft would likely be a large offender of any patents.
That by itself is scary. Picture this scenario: SCO finds itself clientless by virtue of its own stupidity, they go bankrupt, and MS buys it. OpenGL 2.0, anybody?
Judging by what MS is currently doing in courts with the term "Windows," it's only a matter of time before they claim ownership of the term "Server," and force anybody else using the term to change their name.
Are you a suspected terrorist? I'll bet these will show up shortly.
Just imagine the savings over black helicopters!
Well, if a bunch of different hardware vendors were offering you free hardware, wouldn't you choose the best one?
As a new CS grad who knows lots of the latest technology buzzwords, I've been surprised at the number of openings there are for mainframe COBOL programmers. There are enough big mainframe apps out there (and few enough who know how to work with them) that there will probably be a demand for COBOL programmers for quite a while yet.
On the other hand, the same can probably be said about C or FORTRAN. With that many years of experience in the industry, I'm surprised you haven't gotten into management or consulting of some sort.
That does seem pretty steep, but consider how much licenses for WinXP and Office at about $600 per computer. (that's not even getting into annual license fees for XP)
It says they've already installed it on 10,000 systems and are planning to put it on a total of 100,000. So even at that seemingly ridiculous price, they've spent $180,000 instead of $6,000,000 on the first 10K systems, and in the long run will spend $180,000 instead of $60,000,000.
In addition to saving $59,820,000 (!!!) in software costs, I imagine that, like many of us in the U.S., they're able to extend the life of their older hardware for additional savings.
I'm not sure if it will make any difference in the lawsuit or not, but the term Mozilla was coined at Netscape because it was intended to be a "Mosaic Killer." The lizard and Godzilla references were secondary, weren't they?
I don't quite agree with your suggestions for responding to MS, but that is a very accurate description of how Microsoft treats its competitors AND its customers. It goes from "well, you need a license, but who's checking, wink wink," to "you have one month to show proof of compliance." From "Here, have a free media player with your OS" to "Oh, by the way we have permission to disable competing products on your computer."
MS makes some very useable software, but their business philosophy of "shortest possible path to having you by the balls" is more and more unappealing every day.
Those are interesting ideas, but I think it's a bit far to say that working for a living wage is the same as slavery. It's true that a few people have sufficient property and protection of that property to not have to work, but that doesn't mean that somehow it is every man's right not to work.
A slave isn't just someone who has to work, it is someone who has no human rights at all--no choice of where to live or work. In some sense the poor and uneducated are like slaves, but it is a mistake (and an insult to people who are forced into real slavery--yes, it does happen even today) to say that our current economic system is slavery of any kind.
Well, according to this cnet article, the IBM/Sony "Cell" chip, which is rumored to be the cpu for the PlayStation3, is capable of over a trillion calculations per second, or "roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz." if a Pentium 4 is close to 10 GFLOPS, then 100 times that would be close to a TFLOP. Pretty cool if it's true.
Maybe the linux community could start to spread a similar meme . . .
No, probably more like root records. AFAIK, there aren't any open-source collaborators working on those songs, but it's probably just a matter of time.
That's a great thing to note, but in actuality, when an OEM or developer builds an application that is competing with other open source applications, it's at a big disadvantage if its source is closed. Certainly it's an option, but who when you've got a dozen choices for (good) open solutions, why would you be interested in a closed one?
Guess I'll have to stick to clips from here.
Linux still doesn't have adequate support for winmodems. I burned a copy of Mandrake 7.2 and put it on my two-week-old system yesterday. I was surprised when the installation went through without a hitch (7.1 crashed every time it probed my video card.) I was excited when I saw the (pretty!) desktop and heard a startup sound. I was puzzled when I couldn't get my dialup connection to work. When I waded through the poor-English documentation on my Motorola SM56 PCI modem and discovered that "SM" stands for "winmodem" ("Software Modem") I was pissed off. Yeah, this is a problem with my PC manufacturer (and with me--for not looking before I got it) but imagine all the people who got their computers at Wal-Mart trying to get their shiny new-fangled operating system on the internet, and it can't find their modem! There are enough systems out there that this could cause a lot of people to have a negative view of Linux ("yeah, I tried Linux once, but I could never get it on the internet, Windows works fine, though") What good is a computer that can't get on the internet?
The cost of the operating system is only a small percentage of the overall total cost of ownership (TCO). In general Windows NT has proven to have a lower cost of ownership than UNIX. Previous studies have shown that Windows NT has 37 percent lower TCO than UNIX. There is no reason to believe that Linux is significantly different than other versions of UNIX when it comes to TCO. The "previous study" cited here compares NT on Intel hardware with Solaris on SPARC. The hardware cost over $10k more per server, and the OS cost $9340 per server. (That's not even counting the other software!) I'd say that's reason enough to believe that Linux is "significantly different" to Solaris on SPARC when it comes to TCO.