It is true what you say but it's not a proper analogy in this case as DX a closed standard owned by a monopoly notorious for using standards in a very destructive way to the community.
And, why is a GUI necessary for configuration of a web server. It's already (finally) becoming clear that server administrators need to know how to do more than just aim their mouse and click. Insufficient security training is being acknowledged as a business liability.
I hate to break it to you, but a GUI has very little to do with security training. The fact that most of the replies to this thread can't even see that is quite scary.
The main reason employers would be against home working has to be lack of supervision. But I would be willing to allow my boss to supervise my every keystroke via some sort of remote login to my machine if necessary.
Back on topic, I think the idea of avoiding multitasking has always been in the back of most programmers minds in that it is common practice to batch, for example, copy and pastes that are similar rather then in doing them in the order that the code appears.
I think you point out the main reason capitalism isn't working here - most end users don't care or know better than to use MS.
i.e. If 70% of users realized the problem with MS then there wouldn't be a problem because they would seek alternatives. Maybe the only way this will be settled is for this discovery to happen naturally?
Somewhere along the line people have started treating information as if its physical. Let me let you in on a little secret, information is _not_ physical.
Why have ownership laws for it then? I thought they only existed because 1000 people can't sleep in the same bed.
But then their are claims of artists starving. There are two types of artist, one does it for the cash, the other one does it because they simply want to. There are of course artists who have a mix of both those attributes.
In a capitalist society, the first type is forced and expected to deal with new info technolgy, just like any other company. So you can't really complain when they go down because of peer to peer networking. Businesses come and go.
Then we have the devoted artist, which is easily sorted out because they, by definition, aren't doing it for money. Will they starve? Yes, unless they get a job.
I am angry that many people don't realize the harmfulness of IP. Do you really want some government office making decisions about what can and can't be communicated? I can't say I have a lot of faith in the US patent office after reading some of the software patents there.
I dare you to look at your philosophy for the current IT revolution. Do you want a system that in 40 years time is a healthy, flowing organism, where new information is being transmitted to every node upon request? Or should we just put more tollbooths up.
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fdisk is no easier than the Linux alternatives. The reason you think that is because most machines come with Windows pre-installed and partitioned.
It is true what you say but it's not a proper analogy in this case as DX a closed standard owned by a monopoly notorious for using standards in a very destructive way to the community.
And, why is a GUI necessary for configuration of a web server. It's already (finally) becoming clear that server administrators need to know how to do more than just aim their mouse and click. Insufficient security training is being acknowledged as a business liability.
I hate to break it to you, but a GUI has very little to do with security training. The fact that most of the replies to this thread can't even see that is quite scary.
So if you had an infinite number of Ferraris you would complain if some were stolen?
The main reason employers would be against home working has to be lack of supervision. But I would be willing to allow my boss to supervise my every keystroke via some sort of remote login to my machine if necessary. Back on topic, I think the idea of avoiding multitasking has always been in the back of most programmers minds in that it is common practice to batch, for example, copy and pastes that are similar rather then in doing them in the order that the code appears.
I think you point out the main reason capitalism isn't working here - most end users don't care or know better than to use MS. i.e. If 70% of users realized the problem with MS then there wouldn't be a problem because they would seek alternatives. Maybe the only way this will be settled is for this discovery to happen naturally?
Somewhere along the line people have started treating information as if its physical. Let me let you in on a little secret, information is _not_ physical.
Why have ownership laws for it then? I thought they only existed because 1000 people can't sleep in the same bed.
But then their are claims of artists starving. There are two types of artist, one does it for the cash, the other one does it because they simply want to. There are of course artists who have a mix of both those attributes.
In a capitalist society, the first type is forced and expected to deal with new info technolgy, just like any other company. So you can't really complain when they go down because of peer to peer networking. Businesses come and go.
Then we have the devoted artist, which is easily sorted out because they, by definition, aren't doing it for money. Will they starve? Yes, unless they get a job.
I am angry that many people don't realize the harmfulness of IP. Do you really want some government office making decisions about what can and can't be communicated? I can't say I have a lot of faith in the US patent office after reading some of the software patents there.
I dare you to look at your philosophy for the current IT revolution. Do you want a system that in 40 years time is a healthy, flowing organism, where new information is being transmitted to every node upon request? Or should we just put more tollbooths up.