That's because you didn't follow the rest of the thread. Hint: That was just one email in a hundred+ long chain of emails.
Also - how the hell do you do virtualization without virtualizing legacy PC I/O emulation? And emulating all the assorted crap from the early 80s?! Hello, IRQs anyone? Just because there's now a layer of crap on top, hiding the old crap does not mean the old crap is not there.
And, lets say you have a guest, running a secure operating system, in a VM. And you have windows in another VM. Windows get rootkitted. And a guest->host escalation happens. The attacker now has full access to your secure OS's memory space! It doesn't matter even if you encrypt everything - the attacker has full access to your memory space! Not only that - any type of security you have in place can be easily thwarted. Hell, the attacker can just map any checks you have to NOPs, and you would not be any wiser.
Who says you never sue your own paying customers? At least one other large company with less than stellar reputation, whose initials rhyme with "C" "A" has threatened to sue a paying customer, with their attorneys in the room (so, this is not just some sales dude trying to shaft you).
MIT disagrees with you. Heck, that study was even discussed here on/. The basic premise is that a top notch programmer is worth about 8 normal/mediocre programmers. So, if you have a team of up to 8 programmers, who are not a top notch person, they can't compare to what one top notch person can do.
That's being a little silly. The guy's in an environment that is Microsoft centric, and if it's non-profit, they probably have a lot of non-profit type software that does not run in linux. I know, because I'd helped a little 3-5 person non-profit, and their grant giving foundation requires them to use a specific piece of software to request grants. Would I want to reduce the grants I can get by screwing around with computers and OSes? Hell no.
Not everyone or everything should run linux. And I've been using linux since 1.3, and have no windows boxes in my house (other than in VMs)
What has this to do with morality? If you bought a Ford, and Ford tells you that you can only use Exxon gas, and you install an adapter to use Shell, that's immoral?
And then, if Ford has a recall, and you bring your car in to get the new part fitted, and Ford sees the adapter, and kills your car, that's moral? And if you return the car for being dead, that's immoral?
WTF is wrong with the world? Electronic equipment should have the *SAME* protection as other tangible material things you buy, like furniture, or even cars.
Only in software do you get the "this is warranted for nothing, NOTHING, you hear", and people still buy it, like sheep.
People should read the book "The Software Conspiracy"
I don't know, and don't care about the schedulers, but that last bit is a bit... disingenuous. The only reason Kolivas stopped working on his scheduler is because his was kicked out.
They might have won, except for the $1.2bil / $150 (average retail repair price) = 8 million repairs they're planning on.
Or worse yet, with xbox at $199, lets assume a motherboard replacements for br0ken xboxes, assume $150/motherboard. 8 million replacements?!
That just means they have 2 million xboxes out there! No wonder they got their pants swiped. I mean, even PS3 has 3+ mil boxes out there, in working condition. Now, if PS3 had some lion batteries, I'd be worried...
Gah, and this is rated a 4?! Can I republish the Deathly Hallows under another license? After all, the original book is still available under the original license.
If you DON'T OWN the code, you CANNOT change the license. Very simple concept that somehow, most people don't seem to get. This is NOT about redistribution rights. This is about CHANGING THE FREAKING LICENSE, and also ownership claims.
I gave away a 2Ghz P4 for my old 1Ghz P3, way back when. The P4 had the integrated intel crap video, and the P3 had a nice agp video card. The P4 was... unusable, because of the crappy video. My friend who inherited it tried playing 1942 with his group. Didn't quite work out.
Dude, the only reason the "fall back" works was because... that was the NE2000 chipset!!! I have plenty of old NICs where the ne2000 driver didn't work, even ISA NICs.
In view of the $1.2 billion they're setting aside to fix br0ken xbox 360s, I would have to disagree with you. How, if you s/products/peripherals/g, I could go with that.
There's a couple of things you have to understand first. You *can* pay Microsoft for the privilege of writing code to their kernel.
However, there's this bunch of freaks who release their code to the world, for others to use. Their payment is that if you *derive* stuff off their work, you have to pass your source code on as well.
You pick your payment plan, and off you go.
Not too many people have to write things that hook into the kernel itself. MYSQL certainly doesn't. For the most part, people who do that either need it internally (you did not re-distribute, so do not have to pass your source code along), or do it for another reason (to support whatever). If you are doing it to support whatever, then just obey the license. Again, your choice of licenses - pay Microsoft, or pay by passing along your source code.
Why should anyone develop their code, and let you use it for free? *YOU* certainly are not willing to do so.
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Also - how the hell do you do virtualization without virtualizing legacy PC I/O emulation? And emulating all the assorted crap from the early 80s?! Hello, IRQs anyone? Just because there's now a layer of crap on top, hiding the old crap does not mean the old crap is not there.
And, lets say you have a guest, running a secure operating system, in a VM. And you have windows in another VM. Windows get rootkitted. And a guest->host escalation happens. The attacker now has full access to your secure OS's memory space! It doesn't matter even if you encrypt everything - the attacker has full access to your memory space! Not only that - any type of security you have in place can be easily thwarted. Hell, the attacker can just map any checks you have to NOPs, and you would not be any wiser.
Who says you never sue your own paying customers? At least one other large company with less than stellar reputation, whose initials rhyme with "C" "A" has threatened to sue a paying customer, with their attorneys in the room (so, this is not just some sales dude trying to shaft you).
damnit. Now I wish I didn't forget my username and password from the 90s.
Once, I too could have joined in a DSW.
just checked:
You are currently using 1027 MB (33%) of your 3105 MB.
You are currently using 1026 MB (33%) of your 3084 MB.
MIT disagrees with you. Heck, that study was even discussed here on /. The basic premise is that a top notch programmer is worth about 8 normal/mediocre programmers. So, if you have a team of up to 8 programmers, who are not a top notch person, they can't compare to what one top notch person can do.
That's being a little silly. The guy's in an environment that is Microsoft centric, and if it's non-profit, they probably have a lot of non-profit type software that does not run in linux. I know, because I'd helped a little 3-5 person non-profit, and their grant giving foundation requires them to use a specific piece of software to request grants. Would I want to reduce the grants I can get by screwing around with computers and OSes? Hell no.
Not everyone or everything should run linux. And I've been using linux since 1.3, and have no windows boxes in my house (other than in VMs)
I'm sorry, I much prefer the T-X. Sexy machines are fun.
What has this to do with morality? If you bought a Ford, and Ford tells you that you can only use Exxon gas, and you install an adapter to use Shell, that's immoral?
And then, if Ford has a recall, and you bring your car in to get the new part fitted, and Ford sees the adapter, and kills your car, that's moral? And if you return the car for being dead, that's immoral?
WTF is wrong with the world? Electronic equipment should have the *SAME* protection as other tangible material things you buy, like furniture, or even cars.
Only in software do you get the "this is warranted for nothing, NOTHING, you hear", and people still buy it, like sheep.
People should read the book "The Software Conspiracy"
Unfortunately, while you own a license (according to *aa) to play to your self, you don't own a license to play to other people.
I don't know, and don't care about the schedulers, but that last bit is a bit... disingenuous. The only reason Kolivas stopped working on his scheduler is because his was kicked out.
I'm sorry, you can't exit. Too many broken chairs are in your path. The fire marshall has called up about blocked exits.
What is your next move?
They might have won, except for the $1.2bil / $150 (average retail repair price) = 8 million repairs they're planning on.
Or worse yet, with xbox at $199, lets assume a motherboard replacements for br0ken xboxes, assume $150/motherboard. 8 million replacements?!
That just means they have 2 million xboxes out there! No wonder they got their pants swiped. I mean, even PS3 has 3+ mil boxes out there, in working condition. Now, if PS3 had some lion batteries, I'd be worried...
Of course not, they're too busy playing with their Wiis, or, more probably, out there hunting for Wiis.
You can do whatever the hell you want with the code.
You CANNOT do whatever the hell you want with the LICENSE.
Two separate things. Is that really so hard to understand?
** And you most certainly cannot claim ownership of shit you didn't write.
Gah, and this is rated a 4?! Can I republish the Deathly Hallows under another license? After all, the original book is still available under the original license.
If you DON'T OWN the code, you CANNOT change the license. Very simple concept that somehow, most people don't seem to get. This is NOT about redistribution rights. This is about CHANGING THE FREAKING LICENSE, and also ownership claims.
How the hell is this insightful? Hey you, yes, you moderator, pay attention, this is NOT insightful. Damnedful maybe. Funny maybe.
You have to be kidding right? Reyk's work is all under BSD, and he has refused to dual license it for over a year.
Yes, there are other source code that are dual licensed, but the most important piece is the reversed engineered piece, and that's Reyk's work
I think you haven't seen all the facts.
I gave away a 2Ghz P4 for my old 1Ghz P3, way back when. The P4 had the integrated intel crap video, and the P3 had a nice agp video card. The P4 was... unusable, because of the crappy video. My friend who inherited it tried playing 1942 with his group. Didn't quite work out.
Dude, the only reason the "fall back" works was because... that was the NE2000 chipset!!! I have plenty of old NICs where the ne2000 driver didn't work, even ISA NICs.
Do you even know what the hell you're talking about?! Ethernet has its history in DOS?!?!?!?!
In view of the $1.2 billion they're setting aside to fix br0ken xbox 360s, I would have to disagree with you. How, if you s/products/peripherals/g, I could go with that.
You may actually have a point, if Apple was trying to push whatever format keynote is, as a global *OPEN* standard.
Or rather, there is, but it is the standard windows HAL.
There's a couple of things you have to understand first. You *can* pay Microsoft for the privilege of writing code to their kernel.
However, there's this bunch of freaks who release their code to the world, for others to use. Their payment is that if you *derive* stuff off their work, you have to pass your source code on as well.
You pick your payment plan, and off you go.
Not too many people have to write things that hook into the kernel itself. MYSQL certainly doesn't. For the most part, people who do that either need it internally (you did not re-distribute, so do not have to pass your source code along), or do it for another reason (to support whatever). If you are doing it to support whatever, then just obey the license. Again, your choice of licenses - pay Microsoft, or pay by passing along your source code.
Why should anyone develop their code, and let you use it for free? *YOU* certainly are not willing to do so.