It has seemed kind of obvious that this hammer was going to come down, it was just a matter of when.
Netscape has posted a very good example of how not to run an open source project though, which should prevent others from making their mistakes in the future, which is a good thing. i.e. don't just throw a bunch of stuff out there and expect people to run with it, having some goals before the project was 6 months old may have been nice too.
In retrospect it is obvious that opening up Navagator was a last ditch hail-mary desparation shot of Netscapes to regain some of the momentum that it lost to MS...
Yes, I much prefered the days when you had to buy each part separately. In fact, I think that all Linux distributions should be forced to ship browswers and servers on separate media, to avoid "bundling" charges.
Great Post! I was thinking the exact same things.... Someday the/. crowd will realized they aren't being censored just becuase the library refuses to carry the latest issue of Big Tit Over 40 Dykes or whatever...
NT has no useful scripting, Linux has everything you can ever need
Windows scripting host will let you do almost anything using either VBScript or Javascript. There is also Perl for Win32.
you cannot remote administer NT (Im not talking about fast connections here, (where you could use VNC), try to administer NT over a modem line. Good luck)
I've used both PC-Duo and Carbon Copy to do remote NT administration just fine over a 28.8 line.
once youve made your decision to use IIS, youre completly stuck when it comes to changing to another type of webserver, or sometimes even when you want to transfer sites from on IIS to another
I've never had any problem with that... the MS tool works well, and its not like on a Linux box you can move seamlessly from Apache to Zeus, for instance.
Anyway, I'm tired of responding to your lie-filled article already. I'm sure you are just some 3133t 15 year old who doesn't know anything about system administration anyway.
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Those of you old enough to remember life before Reagan
I quit reading your aticle when you had to throw in the gratutious Left wing propaganda. Nice to see the liberals being tolorant to all viewpoints like they love to espouse.
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That doesn't excuse using the misleading "free" term, which is what the author of the above post was claiming.
...Here at >named chnaged to protect the guilty.. let's say a large computer company we get approximately 40% of our hits per day over a 4 hour period. Between 10 and 12 and 2 and 4. Sure if you are getting a steady stream over 24 hours you aren't going to have many problems with either solution, but that definitely isn't the case.
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Unless of course, you're the business man who happens to take some college students Open Source research and turns it into a multi million dollar company without spending ANY R&D money!
Of course, Red Hat's prospectus for its IPO states that it spends 20% of revenues on R&D. Get your facts straight next time.
Becuase accounting standards in Germany and the US are quite different. US accounting standards are very conservative when compared to the accounting standards of most European countries. Whatever "Profit" SuSE earned may be a loss if their books were calculated according to US GAAP.
Depends on the circumstances, actually.... If you are bying things for final use (i.e. computers for most companies), purchases are generally subject to sales tax (unless you buy them mail order, etc...). If a company buys something to use in a product it sells (computer for a company that sells video editing systems or such) then that purchase is not subject to sales tax.
I mean what sense does it make that the exact same transaction in taxed if you do it in person, as opposed to through the mail or over the internet.
Of course, the rational thing to do would be to have flat taxes for everything and abolish all sales taxes. Then its just a matter of some simple payroll deducations. No tax forms, etc...
Best exchange: Q: But why would someone work for free when they could be getting paid for the same work? A: Because they want to live in a world where software doesn't suck?
Man, if that is the best argument esr has, I'd hate to see what you think the lame exchanges were. Like free software and non-sucky software are mutually exclusive or something.
I certainly hope esr has bigger bullets than this in his gun (how is that for an appropriate metaphor?)
That's odd... I've had Sprint PCS and have had both the Qualcomm phone and now the new Nokia 6185 and have had few if any problems, and I've used it in Boston, KC, Chicago, Houston, and a few other places....
Well I would explain the diffence between a private corporation like (ABC, NBC, FOX, etc..) where you didn't pay a damn dime for that coverage you didn't like and PBS where your tax dollars are helping to pay for the programming and broadcasting, but I don't think you would understand the difference.
No it is not. Its a question of whether people should have to support something against their will. If PBS is so damn great they should have people beating down their door to give them money, rather than having to use my money and begging for more every two weeks.
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First off, PBS uses almost none of your tax dollars. Their federal and state funding has been cut so many times it's not funny. The total line in their financial report for grants is about $41 million of a $448 million budget. That's less than 10% of their expenses, and less than a single tank costs these days.
If they 'only' use $41 million of my tax dollars, they shouldn't have that big of a problem making up that amount if their funding got cut, right? They could change their name to GM presents PBS or something, right?
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That's not a union... thats a PAC.
It even tells JavaScript it's version 4.
Thats more of a free pass for idiots who put explicit version numbers in the their browser detection Javascript code, more than anything.
It has seemed kind of obvious that this hammer was going to come down, it was just a matter of when.
Netscape has posted a very good example of how not to run an open source project though, which should prevent others from making their mistakes in the future, which is a good thing. i.e. don't just throw a bunch of stuff out there and expect people to run with it, having some goals before the project was 6 months old may have been nice too.
In retrospect it is obvious that opening up Navagator was a last ditch hail-mary desparation shot of Netscapes to regain some of the momentum that it lost to MS...
Yes, I much prefered the days when you had to buy each part separately. In fact, I think that all Linux distributions should be forced to ship browswers and servers on separate media, to avoid "bundling" charges.
Urban Cowboy.. or Midnight Cowboy.. I always get those two confused...
I thought we were discussing censorship as a verb. You are refering to the noun portion of the definition.
By your screwed up thinking the only library in the country that doesn't censor is the Library of Congress....
No it isn't.
Distribution of the publication as a whole has not been stoped. Merely one channel on distribution.
Great Post! I was thinking the exact same things.... Someday the /. crowd will realized they aren't being censored just becuase the library refuses to carry the latest issue of Big Tit Over 40 Dykes or whatever...
FUD, FUD, FUD....
NT has no useful scripting, Linux has everything you can ever need
Windows scripting host will let you do almost anything using either VBScript or Javascript. There is also Perl for Win32.
you cannot remote administer NT (Im not talking about fast connections here,
(where you could use VNC), try to administer NT over a modem line. Good luck)
I've used both PC-Duo and Carbon Copy to do remote NT administration just fine over a 28.8 line.
once youve made your decision to use IIS, youre completly stuck when it comes
to changing to another type of webserver, or sometimes even when you want to
transfer sites from on IIS to another
I've never had any problem with that... the MS tool works well, and its not like on a Linux box you can move seamlessly from Apache to Zeus, for instance.
Anyway, I'm tired of responding to your lie-filled article already. I'm sure you are just some 3133t 15 year old who doesn't know anything about system administration anyway.
Those of you old enough to remember life before Reagan
I quit reading your aticle when you had to throw in the gratutious Left wing propaganda. Nice to see the liberals being tolorant to all viewpoints like they love to espouse.
That doesn't excuse using the misleading "free" term, which is what the author of the above post was claiming.
...Here at >named chnaged to protect the guilty.. let's say a large computer company we get approximately 40% of our hits per day over a 4 hour period. Between 10 and 12 and 2 and 4. Sure if you are getting a steady stream over 24 hours you aren't going to have many problems with either solution, but that definitely isn't the case.
Unless of course, you're the business man who happens to take some college students Open Source research and turns it into a multi million dollar company without spending ANY R&D money!
Of course, Red Hat's prospectus for its IPO states that it spends 20% of revenues on R&D. Get your facts straight next time.
Becuase accounting standards in Germany and the US are quite different. US accounting standards are very conservative when compared to the accounting standards of most European countries. Whatever "Profit" SuSE earned may be a loss if their books were calculated according to US GAAP.
Depends on the circumstances, actually.... If you are bying things for final use (i.e. computers for most companies), purchases are generally subject to sales tax (unless you buy them mail order, etc...). If a company buys something to use in a product it sells (computer for a company that sells video editing systems or such) then that purchase is not subject to sales tax.
I mean what sense does it make that the exact same transaction in taxed if you do it in person, as opposed to through the mail or over the internet.
Of course, the rational thing to do would be to have flat taxes for everything and abolish all sales taxes. Then its just a matter of some simple payroll deducations. No tax forms, etc...
) if they allowed some independent code auditor to assure they had not modified the code in any way.
Oh, that's nice... the guilty until proven innocent approach always wins lots of converts.
Best exchange:
Q: But why would someone work for free when they could be getting paid for the same work?
A: Because they want to live in a world where software doesn't suck?
Man, if that is the best argument esr has, I'd hate to see what you think the lame exchanges were. Like free software and non-sucky software are mutually exclusive or something.
I certainly hope esr has bigger bullets than this in his gun (how is that for an appropriate metaphor?)
That's odd... I've had Sprint PCS and have had both the Qualcomm phone and now the new Nokia 6185 and have had few if any problems, and I've used it in Boston, KC, Chicago, Houston, and a few other places....
Maybe you just have a defective phone.
Its just you.
You don't want your microwave to suddenly flash "eat at joe's"
I don't know, how much cheaper will the microwave be?
Discovery and A&E do not show anything suitable for my children (3 years and 10 months respectively
Jeezus! What kind of programming is appropriate for a 10 month old anyway? Damn, isn't that a little young to be using the TV as a babysitter?
Well I would explain the diffence between a private corporation like (ABC, NBC, FOX, etc..) where you didn't pay a damn dime for that coverage you didn't like and PBS where your tax dollars are helping to pay for the programming and broadcasting, but I don't think you would understand the difference.
It's all a question of what you like to watch
No it is not. Its a question of whether people should have to support something against their will. If PBS is so damn great they should have people beating down their door to give them money, rather than having to use my money and begging for more every two weeks.
First off, PBS uses almost none of your tax dollars. Their federal and state funding has been cut so many times it's not funny. The total line in their financial report for grants is about $41 million of a $448 million budget. That's less than 10% of their expenses, and less than a single tank costs these days.
If they 'only' use $41 million of my tax dollars, they shouldn't have that big of a problem making up that amount if their funding got cut, right? They could change their name to GM presents PBS or something, right?