These companies were part of a fraudulent stock deal, commonly known as a "Pump and Dump". It is alleged in the leaked OSDN documents that Malda and Bates received payments in return for posting links to these falsified webpages, and stimulating grass roots interest in the Linux-based electronic products.
Why don't you just post the documents, instead of teasing us with this summary? If it's true, the facts will speak for themselves. It's not like Taco and Hemos will delete your comment.
It's "News for Nerds", allegedly, not News for Bioinformatics Investigators. Since the article was posted elsewhere, it can be linked to. Slashdot has no responsibility to post the letter on the front page, or anywhere else.
Who the fuck are you to throw a tantrum, just because it fits your definition of "Stuff that Matters" but not everyone (anyone?) elses? If you don't like it, take your money elsewhere. Oh yes, you don't spend any money here.
I don't know a Howard Hughes investigator from fucken nobody, and after reading the article, my interest has not been piqued. I can assume that if the letter itself was posted on the front page in 48 pt. Impact with a <BLINK> tag, it would not make me any more interested. It's not like somebody is inventing carnivorous vegetables or a chicken that cooks itself, it's a mainly semantic dispute between one or more bodies in a field that doesn't excite me, or about 99% of the/. populace.
So before you start slinging more daggers about Malda and Homos not having journalistic integrity, just shut the fuck up and stop crying; your mascara is running. You got your mention, which is a lot more than most stories get. Be happy with that, or I'll give you something to cry about.
I believe that this French judge should be praised for promoting progress in security technology. The fact that they are asking Yahoo to do the impossible is irrelevant. When has challenging the impossible not led to progress? There was a time in history when people thought it was impossible for peanut butter and jelly to co-exist in the same jar. People once believed that man could not run faster than the speed of light, or turn doo-doo into ingots of diamond studded, gold-plated pure platinum.
Just because you elitist, long haired socialist hippie open-source freaks think nothing can be accomplished unless it is free doesn't mean you can poop on the efforts of those gifted imagineers that dare to dream the impossible. I don't know what they teach you in those dens of homosexual debauchery known as British boarding schools, but here in the free world, A.K.A. US to the motherfuckin' A, they teach us three things:
You have the right to own a gun
You have the right to shoot anyone who says otherwise
If you got a problem with our policy, you can take it up with my supervisor. That's why I voted for Bush, because he's the only candidate for president with the balls to stand up to you jackbooted liberal thugs on behalf of Microsoft and the RIGHT TO INNOVATE, and now Albert "Hitler" Gore and his buddy Joseph "Goebbels" Lieberman are trying to steal the election, and make this a country where Microsoft gets sued for creating a clearlysuperiorproduct, and communists everywhere are free to createshoddyknockoffs. Shame on you. But wait,
IE wouldn't render (completely) our corporate database-enabled web page, but would hang half way down, so our entire company used Netscape anyway.
So you aren't competent enough to write standards compliant HTML, and you blame Internet Explorer, which is far and away the most feature-rich and standards-compliant browser available? Sounds like you are the cause of most of your own problems. (see below)
Want to install Exchange Server? "Oh, we've discontinued Exchange 5.5, you have to buy Exchange 2000 and to run it you HAVE to buy Windows 2000 in spite of the fact that your NT 4.0 server is running just fine". We wanted to add an additional SQL Server system, but found out that Microsoft pulled all the SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0 packages and nobody could sell us one, we had to wait for SQL Server 2000 and it would only run on Windows 2000, so now we had to upgrade a server (or build a new one). Then you have to look at the Primary Domain Controller, since a Win2K machine isn't happy with an NT 4 PDC, and so on and so on. It's THOSE continuous fees that companies are fed up with. The product we HAVE works great. We want another just like it, but we can't get it, we have to get it's newer replacement, but oh yeah, you have to upgrade all your other systems to interoperate now.
I have no idea what you are talking about here. You can still purchase licenses for Exchange 5.5, and you can still purchase licenses for SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0. Although there are many reasons why you should upgrade to Win2k, Microsoft has not discontinued any NT4 related products in an attempt to force enterprises to upgrade. This would be marginally illegal and definitely frowned upon by most large companies.
Are you some kind of troll? This is patently false. MODERATORS, PLEASE MOD PARENT DOWN TROLL -1 NOW! That is if CmdrTaco doesn't bitchslap you first. Furthermore, you don't have to
Well, my company uses it universally (>600 users locally, >2500 enterprise wide), and I have worked for companies with >2500 users in one location using these features, with bob knows how many employees enterprise wide. Also, in my experience as a consultant, almost every user of every company I worked for used these features in one way or another (Some were using Netscape Calendar or Lotus Notes, but most were Exchange/Outlook.)
As a matter of fact, the PIM features are almost vital for high level executives, as Outlook syncs readily with PalmPilots, which are popular on mahogany row. There is no simple way for these executive's secretaries to read and update their schedules without a networked messaging solution such as Outlook.
But I guess you wouldn't have seen that in your experience, since your experience consists of being a level 1 tech in some tech support sweatshop for a few months, and selling some fried ram on the cheap out of the back of your car in front of CompUSA. What can you expect, of an Anonymous Coward.
The main reseaon is that if you standardize on Outlook you're stuck running outlook. Users on Mac's (designers, for example), and Linux/Sun/SGI (developers, for example) are out of luck.
Wrongo. There is an Exchange client for Mac (equivalent to Inbox) and also Outlook for Mac. Works great. Office 2001 for Mac has a SMTP only client with some other name, but which looks interesting. It may also have Outlook, I just haven't looked very closely at it yet.
The other reason is cost. Why bother spending the money on exchange (with it's horrible liscensing fees) when you already have a perfectly good setup.
Because of the added functionality. You can have very basic, email only functionality for free, but no one has created a robust, full-featured true messaging server that is free yet, and I don't see the free software movement creating something better than a commercial product. You pay for quality, plain and simple.
Most of you bitches whining about Exchange/Outlook being hard to manage speaking "from personal experience" are just incompetent. You can't figure out how to configure anything more complex than an SMTP daemon, and you fuck the whole works up. But it's never "gee, maybe I should read a book and do this shit the right way," it's "damn PHB management forced this M$ stuff down our throat, and it's buggy and doesn't work right. Woe is me, i wish I could be running postfix!" Furthermore, you can't
I have seen many exchange setups crash and burn at other companies, and become management nightmares. Can you help me come up with opinions/facts/experiences why exchange sucks as an enterprise e-mail solution versus a nice solid Unix solution to present to management?"
And there are far more companies where it works just great. I imagine the management is pushing the Outlook/Exchange combo as a means to implement an entire business system, using the calendar, meeting, and other organizer bits. This sort of standardization would allow them to process conference room reservations and meeting requests automatically, and even create forms for common communications and processes. In short, more integration. You aren't going to be able to do that with Pine/SMTP. Also, Exchange has a very solid WebMail option. (I think comes with service pack 6)
There is no reason a competent sysadmin can't make Exchange run smoothly, and there is no reason to forgo this sort of functionality in favor of some sort of "all free software" credibility. Exchange is well worth the money for these and other reasons, and any
FreeDevelopers.net is a commercial software company that plans to develop GPL software, and is the brainchild of Tony Stanco, a former Security Exchange Commission attorney.
Former SEC attorney => this company will know how to work all the bunko, ponzi pyramid schemes related to an open source IPO.
Group leadership and major policy decisions are to be voted upon by the developers, making it the first democratically elected software company.
That's ironic, coming from a bunch of communists. Hope the double-think doesn't tax their brains too much.
It's hard enough to make a buck from Linux and free software the old fashioned way. Yet FreeDevelopers.net seeks to reinvent the way companies produce software, and to bring to development models the same kind of ethical imperatives and innovation that drive the FSF in its efforts to create and advocate its GPL license. -- From the article
Precisely. This can't possibly make any money, so why is it being called a "software company?" It's just a virtual hippie commune. Not to mention the fact that
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That guy looks like a child molestor.
Are you trolling for Scooby-Doo?
These companies were part of a fraudulent stock deal, commonly known as a "Pump and Dump". It is alleged in the leaked OSDN documents that Malda and Bates received payments in return for posting links to these falsified webpages, and stimulating grass roots interest in the Linux-based electronic products.
Why don't you just post the documents, instead of teasing us with this summary? If it's true, the facts will speak for themselves. It's not like Taco and Hemos will delete your comment.
Who the fuck are you to throw a tantrum, just because it fits your definition of "Stuff that Matters" but not everyone (anyone?) elses? If you don't like it, take your money elsewhere. Oh yes, you don't spend any money here.
I don't know a Howard Hughes investigator from fucken nobody, and after reading the article, my interest has not been piqued. I can assume that if the letter itself was posted on the front page in 48 pt. Impact with a <BLINK> tag, it would not make me any more interested. It's not like somebody is inventing carnivorous vegetables or a chicken that cooks itself, it's a mainly semantic dispute between one or more bodies in a field that doesn't excite me, or about 99% of the /. populace.
So before you start slinging more daggers about Malda and Homos not having journalistic integrity, just shut the fuck up and stop crying; your mascara is running. You got your mention, which is a lot more than most stories get. Be happy with that, or I'll give you something to cry about.
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of those rare individuals who challenge the impossible, we now know that we can do it. Alex Chiu knows this, and Alex Chiu is a shining example of the American capitalist motto, YOU CAN DO IT!©
Just because you elitist, long haired socialist hippie open-source freaks think nothing can be accomplished unless it is free doesn't mean you can poop on the efforts of those gifted imagineers that dare to dream the impossible. I don't know what they teach you in those dens of homosexual debauchery known as British boarding schools, but here in the free world, A.K.A. US to the motherfuckin' A, they teach us three things:
- You have the right to own a gun
- You have the right to shoot anyone who says otherwise
- The only good software is software YOU PAY FOR
- YOU CAN DO IT!©
If you got a problem with our policy, you can take it up with my supervisor. That's why I voted for Bush, because he's the only candidate for president with the balls to stand up to you jackbooted liberal thugs on behalf of Microsoft and the RIGHT TO INNOVATE, and now Albert "Hitler" Gore and his buddy Joseph "Goebbels" Lieberman are trying to steal the election, and make this a country where Microsoft gets sued for creating a clearly superior product , and communists everywhere are free to create shoddy knockoffs. Shame on you. But wait,--
Are you some kind of troll? This is patently false. MODERATORS, PLEASE MOD PARENT DOWN TROLL -1 NOW! That is if CmdrTaco doesn't bitchslap you first. Furthermore, you don't have to
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As a matter of fact, the PIM features are almost vital for high level executives, as Outlook syncs readily with PalmPilots, which are popular on mahogany row. There is no simple way for these executive's secretaries to read and update their schedules without a networked messaging solution such as Outlook.
But I guess you wouldn't have seen that in your experience, since your experience consists of being a level 1 tech in some tech support sweatshop for a few months, and selling some fried ram on the cheap out of the back of your car in front of CompUSA. What can you expect, of an Anonymous Coward.
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Most of you bitches whining about Exchange/Outlook being hard to manage speaking "from personal experience" are just incompetent. You can't figure out how to configure anything more complex than an SMTP daemon, and you fuck the whole works up. But it's never "gee, maybe I should read a book and do this shit the right way," it's "damn PHB management forced this M$ stuff down our throat, and it's buggy and doesn't work right. Woe is me, i wish I could be running postfix!" Furthermore, you can't
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There is no reason a competent sysadmin can't make Exchange run smoothly, and there is no reason to forgo this sort of functionality in favor of some sort of "all free software" credibility. Exchange is well worth the money for these and other reasons, and any
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