Soooo, let me see if I get this right - your argument is basically that the GPL is not viral so long as I don't use GPL code the way it's supposed to be used? "Acceptance is voluntary", much like acceptance of a Microsoft EULA is, and much like I don't have to stick a pencil in my eye if I don't want to, but if I do then I should be prepared to face the consecuences?
Define "massive". Define "others". Provide some backing links or information as to how and where this "migration" of developers is taking place. I must've missed this interesting development somehow.
Reply to post making valid point about lack of FeatureX in ProductY
Argument that because I don't need FeatureX or I think FeatureX is overrated, FeatureX is therefore not needed. Ergo, ProductY is teh bomb.
???
Karma!1!!
The lack of foreign keys, triggers and stored procedures (among other things) are serious problems with mySQL, regardless of its capabilities as a low to medium-range/load database, and regardless of statements by NewsForge to the tune of "mySQL is ready to overtake SQL Server and Oracle as enterprise database blah blah blah".
But the reason nobody wants to do that is that expending a nuclear device of the size and power that would fry a single satellite (about 50,000 volts) would not be very cost effective. You can't expect enemy satellites to line up and wait for an EMP blast. Space - even around commercial and military orbits - is largely empty most of the time.
EMP weapons are meant to be used against population/industrial centers and they are detonated in the atmosphere. Killing a satellite with a single missile hit (kinetic or otherwise) is a much cheaper proposition.
Points 1-3, true. But again, that's not what I was talking about.
Point 4, bullcrap FUD. So are you saying that the only good programmers in the planet are open source programmers? I'd take offense at that. And I know a lot of people at Microsoft (and Sybase and SAP and a lot of other commercial software companies) that would, too.
The sendmail security issue certainly did make the front page.
Yes it did, that's why I didn't mention it.
The fact is that the Samba problem is unlikely to be exploitable remotely because [...]
Yes, I could say that about every evil IE exploit that changes my wallpaper at the behest of a punk in Romania, yet those are the types of "articles" that fill up with thousands of "m$ must dyeing now!!1!" comments. Then again, some of them are truly serious and belong in the front page, like Slammer.
Moderators => please mod parent down. The guy is a jackass.
Um, because the number of internet-exploitable IIS 5 systems outnumbers the number of internet-exploitable MySQL and Samba systems by a factor of at least 100 to 1?
Uh, so what? Isn't this supposed to be an anti-Microsoft and pro-open source gig? If everyone who reads Slashdot is an open source advocate/ zealot/ freak then why bother? Everyone here runs Linux and Samba and Apache and KDE and all that, no? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the other stories on the front page and relegate these to the 'Micro$oft' section? (hey, there's an idea).
OTOH, if you use Windows and you're getting your security bulletins from Slashdot, well...
... that Samba security hole that didn't make it to the front page? And that mySQL vulnerability a few weeks ago? And all the others that are not Microsoft products?
It seems open source bugs/ exploits/ vulnerabilities are always conveniently buried somewhere other than on the front page.
Not to say Microsoft software is secure, but hey. "Fair and balanced" never was part of the/. motto.
What is the difference between you and the people who are demonized and flamed to no end because they quote seemingly unreliable and baseless statistics to support the idea that Windows is doing well in the market place? That Windows is better than Linux as a server OS?
It seems to me that for the past four or five years I've been seeing "statistics" and "studies" to the tune of "Linux is enterprise-ready" and "Linux will overtake the desktop" and "Linux rulez". What's different today?
And here I thought Slashdot was a place of discussion. So that's the way it is then? Post a valid question that "goes against the grain" and get modded down?
Wow. Yeah, let's all just sit there and pretend that Open Source is doing just fine and hear the "pundits" we like tell it "like it is" instead of discussing the topic. Discussion. An interesting word, isn't it?
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What, you want me as your 'foe' as well? Didn't you have enough with Twirlip?
Wow, that blows my mind.
Define "massive". Define "others". Provide some backing links or information as to how and where this "migration" of developers is taking place. I must've missed this interesting development somehow.
- Reply to post making valid point about lack of FeatureX in ProductY
- Argument that because I don't need FeatureX or I think FeatureX is overrated, FeatureX is therefore not needed. Ergo, ProductY is teh bomb.
- ???
- Karma!1!!
The lack of foreign keys, triggers and stored procedures (among other things) are serious problems with mySQL, regardless of its capabilities as a low to medium-range/load database, and regardless of statements by NewsForge to the tune of "mySQL is ready to overtake SQL Server and Oracle as enterprise database blah blah blah".Hype does not a software product make.
You speak of "intellect" yet you fail to display any of your own. Surely your "WinTroll" repertoire is more varied than "The Billg"?
(BONUS: I even used an non-English spelling for tipo just to give you something to respond to).
I'm sure you did.
This is a great post. It's a shame you didn't log in.
Mulder? Is that you?
This HTML thing just doesn't work out for you, does it?
And watch in amazement as traffic to Slashdot drops dramatically.
Heck, you could blame that on Bill Gates!
But the reason nobody wants to do that is that expending a nuclear device of the size and power that would fry a single satellite (about 50,000 volts) would not be very cost effective. You can't expect enemy satellites to line up and wait for an EMP blast. Space - even around commercial and military orbits - is largely empty most of the time.
EMP weapons are meant to be used against population/industrial centers and they are detonated in the atmosphere. Killing a satellite with a single missile hit (kinetic or otherwise) is a much cheaper proposition.
You can get your security advisories any way you want. More power to you, I say.
Iraq can't even shoot down a U2, let a lone a satellite. I think we're safe.
Yeah, I guess I have to try harder.
Not to sound insulting, but if this is where you come to get a heads up with what's happening in the security arena, you need to try harder.
Really.
Point 4, bullcrap FUD. So are you saying that the only good programmers in the planet are open source programmers? I'd take offense at that. And I know a lot of people at Microsoft (and Sybase and SAP and a lot of other commercial software companies) that would, too.
Yes it did, that's why I didn't mention it.
The fact is that the Samba problem is unlikely to be exploitable remotely because [...]
Yes, I could say that about every evil IE exploit that changes my wallpaper at the behest of a punk in Romania, yet those are the types of "articles" that fill up with thousands of "m$ must dyeing now!!1!" comments. Then again, some of them are truly serious and belong in the front page, like Slammer.
Moderators => please mod parent down. The guy is a jackass.
Bite me.
Uh, so what? Isn't this supposed to be an anti-Microsoft and pro-open source gig? If everyone who reads Slashdot is an open source advocate/ zealot/ freak then why bother? Everyone here runs Linux and Samba and Apache and KDE and all that, no? Wouldn't it make more sense to put the other stories on the front page and relegate these to the 'Micro$oft' section? (hey, there's an idea).
OTOH, if you use Windows and you're getting your security bulletins from Slashdot, well...
I'm not talking about the technical niceties of the vulnerabilities or why some are worse than others.
I noticed from your spelling.
And I mean that in a good way.
It seems open source bugs/ exploits/ vulnerabilities are always conveniently buried somewhere other than on the front page.
Not to say Microsoft software is secure, but hey. "Fair and balanced" never was part of the /. motto.
-1, Complains about comments complaining about what moderators will surely do to their comment
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And mod this down, too!
It seems to me that for the past four or five years I've been seeing "statistics" and "studies" to the tune of "Linux is enterprise-ready" and "Linux will overtake the desktop" and "Linux rulez". What's different today?
Wow. Yeah, let's all just sit there and pretend that Open Source is doing just fine and hear the "pundits" we like tell it "like it is" instead of discussing the topic. Discussion. An interesting word, isn't it?