After a six-week civil trial last year, a federal
jury found that Microsoft had violated Connecticut's unfair-trade practices act, but awarded Bristol damages of just $1.
It's still a helluva lot better than what they originally got.
Instead, I propose that package management systems should always rely on authoritative information when checking for installed packages.
The only problem I see with this (other than older applications perhaps requiring updating in order to be recognized) is that I don't always install into the suggested directories. I suppose you could specify a search path or scan the entire partition, but that wouldn't work with some of the apps I use which I have pointing to an older/newer lib installed in another location.
Further, an advanced package manager should keep track of these dependencies and offer to update any packages which might be affected by updating a library.
RPM tells you of any lib dependencies being affected as long as you installed the packages from RPM.
I doubt that this is considered breach of contract. I would think that this would be more like the agreements you have with credit card companies where if they change their policy, you have the right to either agree with the changes or terminate your account.
This reminded me of an experience I had about ten years ago. Right after college, I spent a few months working at a retail PC store while looking for a good engineering job. One day, a guy came in asking for advice on how he could keep his system secure while he was at work. He claimed that "they" were getting onto his PC, he knew this because files that were in one directory would be moved to another directory. I assumed that he was leaving his PC on so that he could dial into it from work but, when I mentioned this during the conversation, he told me that his PC was turned off all day. I explained that with no power, his HDD would not be spinning and there was no way that anyone could access it remotely. With a completely straight face he responded, "They can". He finally left relieved when I suggested that he unplug the phone line from the jack during the day.
Just wanted to let you know that power or not, "they" can still get at you.
Code reviews are something you read about in software engineering texts, if you actually know someone who is able to do them, you feel privileged.
I have been writing embedded code for networking devices for the past 6 years and even though code reviews and documentation are requirements and are always included in our (greatly exaggerated) schedule, they are both out the window by around the half way mark.
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It's a quick, easy way to tell if someone actually read the article before posting.
Patent the concept of obtaining a patent and refuse to share your IP with anyone.
It's still a helluva lot better than what they originally got.
The only problem I see with this (other than older applications perhaps requiring updating in order to be recognized) is that I don't always install into the suggested directories. I suppose you could specify a search path or scan the entire partition, but that wouldn't work with some of the apps I use which I have pointing to an older/newer lib installed in another location.
Further, an advanced package manager should keep track of these dependencies and offer to update any packages which might be affected by updating a library.
RPM tells you of any lib dependencies being affected as long as you installed the packages from RPM.
I can only speak for RPM, but both the command line and GUI versions give you a list of included files with complete paths.
I doubt that this is considered breach of contract. I would think that this would be more like the agreements you have with credit card companies where if they change their policy, you have the right to either agree with the changes or terminate your account.
There's an excellent defense for MS right there.
"Okay, we admit that we overcharged you by $40 for Windows. We'll just subtract that from the $400 you pilfered from us."
...they killed Kenny. Those bastards
Fortunately, no other industries suffer from this "problem".
So then how much would those options be worth...or perhaps he meant that Yahoo gave Google some options.
This reminded me of an experience I had about ten years ago. Right after college, I spent a few months working at a retail PC store while looking for a good engineering job. One day, a guy came in asking for advice on how he could keep his system secure while he was at work. He claimed that "they" were getting onto his PC, he knew this because files that were in one directory would be moved to another directory. I assumed that he was leaving his PC on so that he could dial into it from work but, when I mentioned this during the conversation, he told me that his PC was turned off all day. I explained that with no power, his HDD would not be spinning and there was no way that anyone could access it remotely. With a completely straight face he responded, "They can". He finally left relieved when I suggested that he unplug the phone line from the jack during the day.
Just wanted to let you know that power or not, "they" can still get at you.
Well put. Besides, the only positive thing that may come out of this will be when they win a Darwin Award.
I have been writing embedded code for networking devices for the past 6 years and even though code reviews and documentation are requirements and are always included in our (greatly exaggerated) schedule, they are both out the window by around the half way mark.
Every friday they truck in 8 - 10 cases, so at
any given time there is at least 2 cases in the
fridge. Nice selection too.