That would work if justice wasn't so damn ridiculously expensive. As it is nobody who is not a big corporation can afford the legal costs. Being right makes no difference.
Not likely. Currently it is easier to install Linux end user distributions than to install Windows. It wont likely change in the near future because all new Linux distributions will used the signed bootloader the article refers too. If MS closes that possibility the internet server market alone will push an immediate reaction and the control will slip from MS fingers. I dont see Linux installing becoming more difficult for anyone.
MS, as all big companies, wants control, at least enough of it to eliminate any possibility of competition. It cannot force total control out of the blue, but it can try to erode resistance with time, pushing it bit by bit. The current UEFI implementation is just one more attempt to do exactly this.
I don't see your predictions with the same surety you do. Having MS in the control of what runs in all general purpose computers is not good for anybody but to Microsoft. Even if manages to push it at first, there will be enough interest from other companies to make systems outside their control.
That is one possible answer, but fortunately for the guy in this case, Linus didn't go that far. The programmer can use the frustration over the justified humiliation he suffered positively as an incentive to learn and to be more careful, thus becoming a better professional, or if he is a drama queen, like you, and finds the treatment insufferable he can still quit. Either way, at least for him, that is much better than be fired on the spot.
Nice and he will then say what you want to hear and do it again later, because you are the nice guy and he is not afraid of making you angry, until you finally fire him that is. In the end you will have one less employee and several projects screwed up because of him, but at least you were polite, thumbs up!
I hope you have the chance to get out of fantasy land before reality bites you in the ass.
A wrong perception you certainly mean, especially in this case, considering this hot head has been making considerably more right than wrong decisions for a very long time now. Being nice is irrelevant when you know what you are doing, unless you are dealing with drama whores, but it is better to send drama whores away as soon as detected anyway.
"It is not my fault boss, the beads are totally fine, the fault is that they shouldn't be putting the load where they always did, and where it worked before, they should put the load now in this nice little place I arbitrarily chose. Anywhere else the thing will fall apart, but it is their fault."
Maybe he will, maybe he will not. It is up to him to decide if the guy is still good enough to keep despite this mistake, and it is up to the guy to decide if he wants to stay. The important thing here is that sending the guy away, hanging him from a bridge, and yelling at him are three different and independent things that could even all happen together, so your dichotomy is a false one.
Linus response was very much called for. He doesn't take bullshit. that is not being unprofessional, it is a quite professional posture. Sorry to destroy your illusions but you don't need to be nice to be professional, quite the contrary, many times you need to be quite obnoxious, ask any Sergeant out there.
Because the guy screwed up and tried to make excuses. At his position Linus does not have to put with childish behavior from his staff, he can choose who works with him.
He isn't trying to make friends. He is trying to manage the efforts to implement a particularly complex piece of software, whilst hearing bullshit from one of his developers who made a very big mistake.
Everybody makes mistakes, but the right posture when it was obviously your fault is to take the blame and learn from them, not to try and make excuses.
Yes, I used Word 2003 until last year without issue. Certainly less issues than I've had trying to make OO/LO do half the features that Word does out of the box.
Unlike OO/LO, Word 2003 cant open files from Word 2010, for example. Even if all the files have is plain text, and lets not even start with Excel...
Yes again. Access 2010 prompted me if I wanted to upgrade the DB to the newer format and it did it automatically and just worked.
Yes, you have to convert it to another format (which older versions of Access cannot handle or even convert back, to be able to even read it. If you, by any chance, need to make any modification to the database and give it back to the person who created it in an older version of Office, just forget about it. He won't be able to even open it.
So to summarise my original point, can you provide examples of ever being locked out of an MS file?.
Just exactly what I have already told you. You seem to be unable to grasp it though. If it is due to stubbornness or stupidity, I can't tell, but I don't really care.
Have you tried to open a docx in your old office at some point? Or an old mdb file in a newer access? Or an encrypted doc in the atrocity called "Starter Edition" that they have the nerve to ship with many OEM computers. Please do try and come back to tell me how great MS Office is.
And if you worked for me I would fire you. I would expect anyone that manages a team to understand that locking down your team in ever changing proprietary broken file formats that are made incompatible between versions on purpose is more costly at long term than any short term hurdles you could get for lacking a few features you won't likely need anyway.
Mercedes/BMW are brands that are not accessible for most people and as such are a symbol of status, not only because of their superior quality but because of the high price tag. Apple does not have neither superior quality not superior price tag, when compared to their main competitor Brands (Samsung, Google), and are not even very far from other slightly inferior brands.
Their market is therefore far from being as consolidated as you imply.
It is far from closed. Did he commit the crime? How can you be sure if you "justice" system just condemn everybody it wants regardless of the guilt or innocence of the accused? And even if he did the crime the fact stands that 10 years is an abusive time and wouldn't happen in any other country, and I won't even comment on the 121 years possible sentence.
The problem is that even if you didn't do the crime you will still likely take the blame and do the time, because you just can't risk to defend yourself and get life if you lose. US has the highest number of prisoners in the World, considerably higher than China, which is a totalitarian regimen and has 4 times US population.
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That would work if justice wasn't so damn ridiculously expensive. As it is nobody who is not a big corporation can afford the legal costs. Being right makes no difference.
Not likely. Currently it is easier to install Linux end user distributions than to install Windows. It wont likely change in the near future because all new Linux distributions will used the signed bootloader the article refers too. If MS closes that possibility the internet server market alone will push an immediate reaction and the control will slip from MS fingers. I dont see Linux installing becoming more difficult for anyone.
MS, as all big companies, wants control, at least enough of it to eliminate any possibility of competition. It cannot force total control out of the blue, but it can try to erode resistance with time, pushing it bit by bit. The current UEFI implementation is just one more attempt to do exactly this.
I don't see your predictions with the same surety you do. Having MS in the control of what runs in all general purpose computers is not good for anybody but to Microsoft. Even if manages to push it at first, there will be enough interest from other companies to make systems outside their control.
Which is basically what Linus did.
That is one possible answer, but fortunately for the guy in this case, Linus didn't go that far. The programmer can use the frustration over the justified humiliation he suffered positively as an incentive to learn and to be more careful, thus becoming a better professional, or if he is a drama queen, like you, and finds the treatment insufferable he can still quit. Either way, at least for him, that is much better than be fired on the spot.
Nice and he will then say what you want to hear and do it again later, because you are the nice guy and he is not afraid of making you angry, until you finally fire him that is. In the end you will have one less employee and several projects screwed up because of him, but at least you were polite, thumbs up!
I hope you have the chance to get out of fantasy land before reality bites you in the ass.
A wrong perception you certainly mean, especially in this case, considering this hot head has been making considerably more right than wrong decisions for a very long time now. Being nice is irrelevant when you know what you are doing, unless you are dealing with drama whores, but it is better to send drama whores away as soon as detected anyway.
Sure, because pulseaudio should be able to deal with an insane File not Found Error in a ioctl. Please, go back to programming 101.
You obviously know nothing about programming, and to tell the truth, about reading either.
And then Bill comes and says:
"It is not my fault boss, the beads are totally fine, the fault is that they shouldn't be putting the load where they always did, and where it worked before, they should put the load now in this nice little place I arbitrarily chose. Anywhere else the thing will fall apart, but it is their fault."
That seems a bug at pulseaudio.
Which is obviously false and a pitiful attempt to put the blame where it does not belong.
Most people involved in these projects only communicate by messages. I doubt Linus calls these guys on phone and much less visits them.
Maybe he will, maybe he will not. It is up to him to decide if the guy is still good enough to keep despite this mistake, and it is up to the guy to decide if he wants to stay. The important thing here is that sending the guy away, hanging him from a bridge, and yelling at him are three different and independent things that could even all happen together, so your dichotomy is a false one.
Linus response was very much called for. He doesn't take bullshit. that is not being unprofessional, it is a quite professional posture. Sorry to destroy your illusions but you don't need to be nice to be professional, quite the contrary, many times you need to be quite obnoxious, ask any Sergeant out there.
Because the guy screwed up and tried to make excuses. At his position Linus does not have to put with childish behavior from his staff, he can choose who works with him.
He isn't trying to make friends. He is trying to manage the efforts to implement a particularly complex piece of software, whilst hearing bullshit from one of his developers who made a very big mistake.
Everybody makes mistakes, but the right posture when it was obviously your fault is to take the blame and learn from them, not to try and make excuses.
Yes, I used Word 2003 until last year without issue. Certainly less issues than I've had trying to make OO/LO do half the features that Word does out of the box.
Unlike OO/LO, Word 2003 cant open files from Word 2010, for example. Even if all the files have is plain text, and lets not even start with Excel...
Yes again. Access 2010 prompted me if I wanted to upgrade the DB to the newer format and it did it automatically and just worked.
Yes, you have to convert it to another format (which older versions of Access cannot handle or even convert back, to be able to even read it. If you, by any chance, need to make any modification to the database and give it back to the person who created it in an older version of Office, just forget about it. He won't be able to even open it.
So to summarise my original point, can you provide examples of ever being locked out of an MS file? .
Just exactly what I have already told you. You seem to be unable to grasp it though. If it is due to stubbornness or stupidity, I can't tell, but I don't really care.
Have you tried to open a docx in your old office at some point? Or an old mdb file in a newer access? Or an encrypted doc in the atrocity called "Starter Edition" that they have the nerve to ship with many OEM computers. Please do try and come back to tell me how great MS Office is.
The cost of the license is irrelevant next to the cost of actually using their terrible office suit.
And if you worked for me I would fire you. I would expect anyone that manages a team to understand that locking down your team in ever changing proprietary broken file formats that are made incompatible between versions on purpose is more costly at long term than any short term hurdles you could get for lacking a few features you won't likely need anyway.
Mercedes/BMW are brands that are not accessible for most people and as such are a symbol of status, not only because of their superior quality but because of the high price tag. Apple does not have neither superior quality not superior price tag, when compared to their main competitor Brands (Samsung, Google), and are not even very far from other slightly inferior brands.
Their market is therefore far from being as consolidated as you imply.
It is far from closed. Did he commit the crime? How can you be sure if you "justice" system just condemn everybody it wants regardless of the guilt or innocence of the accused? And even if he did the crime the fact stands that 10 years is an abusive time and wouldn't happen in any other country, and I won't even comment on the 121 years possible sentence.
The problem is that even if you didn't do the crime you will still likely take the blame and do the time, because you just can't risk to defend yourself and get life if you lose. US has the highest number of prisoners in the World, considerably higher than China, which is a totalitarian regimen and has 4 times US population.
Considering how basic and obvious they are they should be forcibly FRAND if conceded at all.