Microsoft cannot create that atmosphere because leadership has to come from the top.
I totally disagree. The "duh" level definition of a leader is: someone with followers.
Thus, even a jackass is a leader, if others become so and fall in behind.
Microsoft has a lot of community going for it, in the form of MSDN.
However, the fact that the profit motive sorts highest on the priority list, and the polarizing effect that has on the IT community at large, isn't going to help its growth a bit.
Stuff like Mozilla, and the rest of the Open Source community, resemble the academic world in that they are a public dialogue. No one can pick your pocket on usenet without your participation.
As with Munich and China, the rest of the world is going to realize that they simply don't owe a vig to Redmond.
MS might eventually be forced to sell interoperable products at a reasonable price. Go figure.
Thanks, Mozilla.
me love you longhorn...
The article alludes to a prior 2005 prospective ship date announcement.
Cite a historical example of a non-trivial software product achieving early delivery.
Assuming ( answer != null ), name a few big projects that shipped on time.
When the protests are crafted in the language of votes (or its immediate proxy, money) there is attention. Sometimes the fourth branch of gubmint, the media, weighs in. Witness Poindexter.
Since OS X.x has BSD underpinnings, why not just compile it on x86?
Running OS X.x with MS Orifice seems like the sweet spot for stable OS/file format compatibility in the proprietary world...
Aw, c'mon: viruses are euthenasia for older systems. Imagine the horror of an AARP (American Association of Retro-Processors), which would insist on having you support DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 or worse. I can just see trying to run Apache on an AN/UYK-7...
No, MS might stand for Multiple Sclerosis over the long haul. Had Linus not stolen its mindshare, BSD would likely have been the gnu to ride. Looking at how much you get for the price of an MSDN Universal subscription, it's difficult to argue against the realization that, regardless of your opinion of RMS and the GPL, there has been a profound lowering of costs for software licenses in the last few years.
More generally, there is a coefficient of organizational friction to overcome.
See Kuhn, (and I am not shilling for Bezos).
The only irony in all of this is the hidden assumption that propeller-head organizations differ somehow from private sector ones. Sorry, all: peeps is peeps.
You expect the convicted monopolist not to queer the results towards making a buck?
I expect their searching would be as evenhanded as their installation routines.
Advice: when building a multi-boot configuration, install the monopoly-ware first, then whatever else you care to run.
And if you need to find reference information, use google.
For example, I would be amazed if the graphs embedded in spreadsheets and generated from the data look anything like they do in Excell; they certainly were not ever readable in the versions of Gnumeric
There is a vast difference between
=Sum(A1:A10)
And an Excel.Chart object.
The beauty of Open Source is that, if you feel passionate about these features, you can light off CVS add them, and improve the net happiness of the user community.
Or, as Trent Reznor eloquently put it "I've found you can find happiness in slavery".
Calling Bill Gates an innovator (in the grandparent) is like calling Bill Clinton an honorable man.
One way to make things go a little faster when using Access to drive Excel is to set an Excel.Range object equal to the upper left corner cell where you want data, and then CopyFromRecordset.
That assumes you've got things the way you want them in your SQL SELECT clause. If you need to tap every Recordset field prior to writing to a cell, one hopes your data are few.
Keeping this remotely on topic, are the various GNUmeric programming interfaces comparable to that beloved language, VBA?
I don't know. Looking at the ridiculous bills for land- and cell-phones I've been getting lately, it seems that the government is picking the consumer pocket at all levels.
I'd estimate that the overall government take in the US is ~="A LOT".
Gray Davis's hair would only get greyer if California's revenue due to long distance charges vanished in an abstract puff of packets.
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I totally disagree. The "duh" level definition of a leader is: someone with followers.
Thus, even a jackass is a leader, if others become so and fall in behind.
Microsoft has a lot of community going for it, in the form of MSDN.
However, the fact that the profit motive sorts highest on the priority list, and the polarizing effect that has on the IT community at large, isn't going to help its growth a bit.
Stuff like Mozilla, and the rest of the Open Source community, resemble the academic world in that they are a public dialogue. No one can pick your pocket on usenet without your participation.
As with Munich and China, the rest of the world is going to realize that they simply don't owe a vig to Redmond.
MS might eventually be forced to sell interoperable products at a reasonable price. Go figure.
Thanks, Mozilla.
me love you longhorn...
The article alludes to a prior 2005 prospective ship date announcement.
Cite a historical example of a non-trivial software product achieving early delivery.
Assuming ( answer != null ), name a few big projects that shipped on time.
When the protests are crafted in the language of votes (or its immediate proxy, money) there is attention. Sometimes the fourth branch of gubmint, the media, weighs in. Witness Poindexter.
Parrot will _own_ them both.
There is nothing massively flawed about a buttload of MSFT shares in your portfolio.
Money. It boils down to money.
Shame. I think that if you combined an x86 chip with everthing else Apple gets right, you could set about putting major dents in the evil empire.
Clearly the remark assumed source was available, i.e. you are Apple... :-)
Since OS X.x has BSD underpinnings, why not just compile it on x86?
Running OS X.x with MS Orifice seems like the sweet spot for stable OS/file format compatibility in the proprietary world...
You gotta believe that VisualActiveSCSI-X is way better.
Or maybe the author is just a Gene Wolfe fan. Go, Silk!
Aw, c'mon: viruses are euthenasia for older systems. Imagine the horror of an AARP (American Association of Retro-Processors), which would insist on having you support DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 or worse. I can just see trying to run Apache on an AN/UYK-7...
No, MS might stand for Multiple Sclerosis over the long haul. Had Linus not stolen its mindshare, BSD would likely have been the gnu to ride. Looking at how much you get for the price of an MSDN Universal subscription, it's difficult to argue against the realization that, regardless of your opinion of RMS and the GPL, there has been a profound lowering of costs for software licenses in the last few years.
More generally, there is a coefficient of organizational friction to overcome.
See Kuhn, (and I am not shilling for Bezos).
The only irony in all of this is the hidden assumption that propeller-head organizations differ somehow from private sector ones. Sorry, all: peeps is peeps.
The first screenshot features the Sun, obscured by clouds. Prophetic? You be the judge.
You expect the convicted monopolist not to queer the results towards making a buck?
I expect their searching would be as evenhanded as their installation routines.
Advice: when building a multi-boot configuration, install the monopoly-ware first, then whatever else you care to run.
And if you need to find reference information, use google.
There is a vast difference between
=Sum(A1:A10)
And an Excel.Chart object.
The beauty of Open Source is that, if you feel passionate about these features, you can light off CVS add them, and improve the net happiness of the user community.
Or, as Trent Reznor eloquently put it "I've found you can find happiness in slavery".
Calling Bill Gates an innovator (in the grandparent) is like calling Bill Clinton an honorable man.
One way to make things go a little faster when using Access to drive Excel is to set an Excel.Range object equal to the upper left corner cell where you want data, and then CopyFromRecordset.
That assumes you've got things the way you want them in your SQL SELECT clause. If you need to tap every Recordset field prior to writing to a cell, one hopes your data are few.
Keeping this remotely on topic, are the various GNUmeric programming interfaces comparable to that beloved language, VBA?
I don't know. Looking at the ridiculous bills for land- and cell-phones I've been getting lately, it seems that the government is picking the consumer pocket at all levels.
I'd estimate that the overall government take in the US is ~="A LOT".
Gray Davis's hair would only get greyer if California's revenue due to long distance charges vanished in an abstract puff of packets.
Hopefully the general contempt for proprietary, inferior solutions will drive them towards some better stuff.
After the uber-database, and the terrorism futures project...
The opportunities for political humor are endless...
Thinking about what he'd like to do in Redmond just brings out the American Psycho in him...
...in Contiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki room!
Possible /. poll:
Favorite animal not used on an O'Reilly cover.
My vote: tribble.
C'mon. Linux is IBM's way of saying to Redmond:
A big fsck you
For the bone on OS/2