Really. You're being asked to help can a person that's probably
doing a fine job, and likely result in higher costs.
If the person doing the job is well liked, you can count on
you not being be well liked when word leaks out on how it went down.
Further, it sounds like you've stepped into a snakepit in
terms of software politics and hidden agendas.
RIM is a proud company, and rightly so. It has issues with the way NTP's patents were awarded, and some of those criticisms likely have merit. But it has to find some way to get the patent-infringement monkey off its back, and a settlement is the fastest way to do that.
Of course, this was before he was aware of the USDOJ action, so
he may feel otherwise today.
You got it. Mr. Kennedy is flat-out lying. There is no need to protect
the free-speech rights of Americans. Note the dangerous innuendo ('alleged crime'). There is no crime. What the darkside wants to
do is regulate your rights to speak on the Internet, then over time,
via money pressure, drive out the blogs.
The democrats saw exactly what this bill was designed to do, which
is to stiffle the public from being able to talk about the corrupt darkside.
The NSA has not released a distro. Just patches, library code and userland tools
to implement SELinux. Most of it is now in 2.6 kernel. But the NSA never put together a complete distro.
As to the the Pentagon being pro-MS, well, lets just say that
the NSA is pro-freedom.
And if the database is not properly protected with constraints,
you can screw up the database. And if the schema has to change,
we have to hunt down your code and make changes there.
The best way to manage a database is to only allow applications to modify the database
via stored procedures. You'll have far fewer problems that way.
You really shouldn't look at it that way. You do have the freedom
to publish, it's just that now you have additional, affordable tools (computers and the Internet). The proposed bill is just an attempt
to take away your rights because the darkside is scared of the power
of the masses to take away their power.
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Further, it sounds like you've stepped into a snakepit in terms of software politics and hidden agendas.
Good luck.
RIM is a proud company, and rightly so. It has issues with the way NTP's patents were awarded, and some of those criticisms likely have merit. But it has to find some way to get the patent-infringement monkey off its back, and a settlement is the fastest way to do that.
Of course, this was before he was aware of the USDOJ action, so he may feel otherwise today.
You are all being gamed by the convicted monopolist.
Taking over the Internet will take away your freedom to prevent a takeover by the darkside.
It is your weapon to defend yourself from hell.
Not intelligent, but hard to eradicate.
The democrats saw exactly what this bill was designed to do, which is to stiffle the public from being able to talk about the corrupt darkside.
As to the the Pentagon being pro-MS, well, lets just say that the NSA is pro-freedom.
I hope for the sake of the consumers, that he get's his way.
The best way to manage a database is to only allow applications to modify the database via stored procedures. You'll have far fewer problems that way.
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