As much as I despise some of AT&T's business practises, kudos to them for doing the right thing in this case. I have absolutely no problems with sending warnings to people and disconnecting them only if they're found guilty after a fair trail.
The only thing I would change is giving them a dial-up speed (can check email and pay bills, but not pirate anything) internet connection if they're found guilty via a fair process. Internet access is indispensable for most people, and losing internet would be like losing phone service. The punishment should fit the transgression.
Why? It doesn't compete with eclipse now. I've used modern and 2 year old installs of eclipse, and my last netbeans install was less than 6 months ago.
So what *specifically* did you find wrong with Netbeans? Please enlighten us.
IBM will take all of Sun's great software products, and either ruin or kill them through a combination of strategic imperative, incompetence, and bureaucracy.
Say goodbye to Netbeans. IBM doesn't want competition to Eclipse.
Watch OpenSolaris get pillaged for bits like ZFS and DTrace to GPL and put in Linux and then left in the ditch (though I don't think they'll kill closed-source Solaris).
Glassfish will survive only because it already has a large independent community, despite IBM cutting off funding for it.
Java will take twice as long to evolve, as IBM's bureaucracy will dwarf that of the JCP's. Swing will be slowly killed, to be replaced by SWT. As for Websphere, it's known to break the JEE spec, and indicates the direction IBM will take Java in.
OpenOffice, right now not the cleanest, most user friendly app, will worsen if Lotus Symphony is anything to go by.
IBM pays good lip service to open source, and contributes o some strategic projects (ex Apache Harmony), but their true commitment to open source is much less than that of Sun's. That's what the Linux crowd sometimes fails to understand.
I'm opposed to downloading copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright holder.
Having said that, I'm extremely suspicious that AT&T's process is fair. I have questions:
1) Is this truly targeted towards copyright violators, or is this just a bandwidth management strategy? That is to say, if I download 100 Gb of Linux ISO's, will I get nailed? 2) Is this is 3 strikes (accusations) and you're out policy? 3) Is there any dispute resolution process or recourse for those who believe they're falsely accused? After all, identifying users by their IP addresses does yield false positives? 4) If I actually did download or upload something illegally several times, will I lose my internet access? What if I still need to pay bills, etc? Losing internet access is almost like losing phone service nowadays.
I think the process would be much fairer if there was a dispute resolution process and that the ultimate punishment would be getting your connection relegated to dial-up speeds.
However, I suspect that AT&T's motives aren't entirely towards being fair to their customers.
Well, as a developer who's used Sun's tools in my spare time on my own hardware, I can tell you that I'd be advocating those tools at my company, if it weren't for all the red tape.
At any small dev shops that aren't locked down by red tape, any developer who has a solution to a problem will be able to implement it without even asking for permission. For any shop where "get the job done" is the mantra, as opposed to "let me micromanage you because I have all the time in the world", this will work.
Hell, look at all the consultants who are writing Ruby on Rails code. You're not going to convince me that this was a top-down decision from management.
The reason JavaFX is not officially available on Linux and OpenSolaris is because they haven't solved the media rendering issues on those two OS's, so they can't offer the full non-beta versions.
Besides, if JavaFX doesn't work completely on Sun's *own* OS, then you know that there are substantial issues still to be resolved. It has nothing to do with any vindication against open source.
Sun's strategy is sound. Essentially, it's to become to provider of dev tools of choice and then use those developers to promote their tools in the organizations in which they work. Those organizations will then need to buy support from Sun.
It's a great strategy, but it takes time to execute. Unfortunately, the recession happened at the wrong time and 10% of Sun's customers went under.
I meant "bank" in the sense that the hoarded the money. For all we know, they might have spent it on hoes and yachts and coke. The point is that that they mis-allocated money that was given to them by the government.
When will they learn that handing out money with no strings attached doesn't really work.
Internet broadband in North America is really pathetic in comparison to the rest of the industrialized world. Canada and the U.S. are falling rapidly behind in broadband penetration and performance.
How is this service supposed to work reliably in such an environment?
Having said that, I'm not denying that other people have had problems, or that Microsoft made serious mistakes in designing the device. From my perspective, they seem to have resolved these issues.
I've had an XBox 360 (newest 60Gb Pro model) since September, and I've had no problems aside from the occasional freeze, corrupted save file, and a single red ring of death (to my surprise, a simple power cycle made it go away). I got a cheap HDMI cable and I use that in place of the standard component connector.
I like the games, the interface, the online movie rentals are decent, and it even makes a great upscaling DVD player. This is coming from somebody who is far from being Microsoft's greatest fan, since I switched to Mac and swore never to use Windows again.
YMMV, but I'm very pleased with my purchase. I can only speak for myself, though, since some people I know have had nightmarish problems with the earlier models.
Ballmer is just trolling. He knows that Apple offers real value because OS X is a better operating system than Windows, which means that Apple has essentially taken away the high-end PC business away from Microsoft.
He should know that trolling isn't going to bring those high-end customers back to Windows. Maybe he does, who knows?
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X. They should have known 8 years ago that this was the wrong strategy.
The projects are controlled by Sun. A fork would take a lot of work, and somebody would have to organize and finance the work. IBM could just let Netbeans stagnate and gradually add more features to Eclipse.
IBM can also freeze development on MySql, or enhance the enterprise version of MySql.
because sun don't want to get infected with GPLitis.
They GPL'd Java, didn't they? The CDDL is similar to the Mozilla, BSD and Apache licenses. Nobody complains about those projects. Why the double-standard when it comes to Sun?
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Last time I checked, Red Hat was selling a version of Linux, and so was Novell. They make quite a tidy profit from their Linux business.
Much of Linux's success is due to its community of contributors, but that community also includes corporations.
As much as I despise some of AT&T's business practises, kudos to them for doing the right thing in this case. I have absolutely no problems with sending warnings to people and disconnecting them only if they're found guilty after a fair trail.
The only thing I would change is giving them a dial-up speed (can check email and pay bills, but not pirate anything) internet connection if they're found guilty via a fair process. Internet access is indispensable for most people, and losing internet would be like losing phone service. The punishment should fit the transgression.
For all those Americans who think that AT&T offers a lousy deal, look to the Great White North:
Mandatory 3 year contract. There's no option for an unlocked phone or a shorter contract.
$60 + sales tax for 500 Mb
$75 + sales tax for 1 Gb
Pretty lousy, eh? There's not even an option for an unlimited plan. Rogers had a temporary 6 Gb plan for early adopters that's no longer available.
So what *specifically* did you find wrong with Netbeans? Please enlighten us.
Justify that statement.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
IBM will take all of Sun's great software products, and either ruin or kill them through a combination of strategic imperative, incompetence, and bureaucracy.
Say goodbye to Netbeans. IBM doesn't want competition to Eclipse.
Watch OpenSolaris get pillaged for bits like ZFS and DTrace to GPL and put in Linux and then left in the ditch (though I don't think they'll kill closed-source Solaris).
Glassfish will survive only because it already has a large independent community, despite IBM cutting off funding for it.
Java will take twice as long to evolve, as IBM's bureaucracy will dwarf that of the JCP's. Swing will be slowly killed, to be replaced by SWT. As for Websphere, it's known to break the JEE spec, and indicates the direction IBM will take Java in.
OpenOffice, right now not the cleanest, most user friendly app, will worsen if Lotus Symphony is anything to go by.
IBM pays good lip service to open source, and contributes o some strategic projects (ex Apache Harmony), but their true commitment to open source is much less than that of Sun's. That's what the Linux crowd sometimes fails to understand.
Here's a poll to vote on maintaining Sun's independence from IBM:
http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/426985/results
For this, we should be extremely thankful :)
I'm opposed to downloading copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright holder.
Having said that, I'm extremely suspicious that AT&T's process is fair. I have questions:
1) Is this truly targeted towards copyright violators, or is this just a bandwidth management strategy? That is to say, if I download 100 Gb of Linux ISO's, will I get nailed?
2) Is this is 3 strikes (accusations) and you're out policy?
3) Is there any dispute resolution process or recourse for those who believe they're falsely accused? After all, identifying users by their IP addresses does yield false positives?
4) If I actually did download or upload something illegally several times, will I lose my internet access? What if I still need to pay bills, etc? Losing internet access is almost like losing phone service nowadays.
I think the process would be much fairer if there was a dispute resolution process and that the ultimate punishment would be getting your connection relegated to dial-up speeds.
However, I suspect that AT&T's motives aren't entirely towards being fair to their customers.
Well, as a developer who's used Sun's tools in my spare time on my own hardware, I can tell you that I'd be advocating those tools at my company, if it weren't for all the red tape.
At any small dev shops that aren't locked down by red tape, any developer who has a solution to a problem will be able to implement it without even asking for permission. For any shop where "get the job done" is the mantra, as opposed to "let me micromanage you because I have all the time in the world", this will work.
Hell, look at all the consultants who are writing Ruby on Rails code. You're not going to convince me that this was a top-down decision from management.
Here are the instructions for installing 1.1 on Linux (haven't tried this myself):
http://java.dzone.com/tips/javafx-11-linux-netbeans
And OpenSolaris (not sure if they work with 1.1, I haven't had time to try):
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/javafx
The reason JavaFX is not officially available on Linux and OpenSolaris is because they haven't solved the media rendering issues on those two OS's, so they can't offer the full non-beta versions.
Besides, if JavaFX doesn't work completely on Sun's *own* OS, then you know that there are substantial issues still to be resolved. It has nothing to do with any vindication against open source.
Sun's strategy is sound. Essentially, it's to become to provider of dev tools of choice and then use those developers to promote their tools in the organizations in which they work. Those organizations will then need to buy support from Sun.
It's a great strategy, but it takes time to execute. Unfortunately, the recession happened at the wrong time and 10% of Sun's customers went under.
I meant "bank" in the sense that the hoarded the money. For all we know, they might have spent it on hoes and yachts and coke. The point is that that they mis-allocated money that was given to them by the government.
When will they learn that handing out money with no strings attached doesn't really work.
No, it's the $200 billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer that the telcos were supposed to use to build out broadband that they instead chose to bank.
Internet broadband in North America is really pathetic in comparison to the rest of the industrialized world. Canada and the U.S. are falling rapidly behind in broadband penetration and performance.
How is this service supposed to work reliably in such an environment?
Please tell us you were being sarcastic ?
No, I'm serious. I'm quite pleased with my XBox.
Having said that, I'm not denying that other people have had problems, or that Microsoft made serious mistakes in designing the device. From my perspective, they seem to have resolved these issues.
I've had an XBox 360 (newest 60Gb Pro model) since September, and I've had no problems aside from the occasional freeze, corrupted save file, and a single red ring of death (to my surprise, a simple power cycle made it go away). I got a cheap HDMI cable and I use that in place of the standard component connector.
I like the games, the interface, the online movie rentals are decent, and it even makes a great upscaling DVD player. This is coming from somebody who is far from being Microsoft's greatest fan, since I switched to Mac and swore never to use Windows again.
YMMV, but I'm very pleased with my purchase. I can only speak for myself, though, since some people I know have had nightmarish problems with the earlier models.
Ballmer is just trolling. He knows that Apple offers real value because OS X is a better operating system than Windows, which means that Apple has essentially taken away the high-end PC business away from Microsoft.
He should know that trolling isn't going to bring those high-end customers back to Windows. Maybe he does, who knows?
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X. They should have known 8 years ago that this was the wrong strategy.
First the bonus payments and now this. Do these people think that taxpayer money grows on trees?
keep Solaris but migrate it to x86
Solaris has been running on x86 for years. In fact, OpenSolaris only recently had the capability to run on SPARC. What are you getting at?
Try ZFS.
The projects are controlled by Sun. A fork would take a lot of work, and somebody would have to organize and finance the work. IBM could just let Netbeans stagnate and gradually add more features to Eclipse.
IBM can also freeze development on MySql, or enhance the enterprise version of MySql.
They'll keep OpenOffice, but make it even less usable than before.
They'll kill Netbeans, or merge it into Eclipse.
They'll kill Glassfish, because it competes with Websphere.
They'll make Java way more complicated, and scrap Sun's excellent documentation and replace it with their cryptic help files system.
They'll slowly close source OpenSolaris, or make that OS less usable.
They obviously don't want MySQL to go anywhere, since it competes with DB2.
"Right string truncation error" when attempting to insert into a CHAR or VARCHAR field that's too long. That one is legendary.
because sun don't want to get infected with GPLitis.
They GPL'd Java, didn't they? The CDDL is similar to the Mozilla, BSD and Apache licenses. Nobody complains about those projects. Why the double-standard when it comes to Sun?