Alright, so Microsoft is trying to strangle out interoperability. And this is new because?..;)
Just my two cents, but personally I think that we're barking up the wrong tree here. Even if this new.NET centerpiece causes serious interoperability problems, one has to take note of Microsoft's other decisions; the fact that its currently shooting itself in the foot with licensing for instance. All good sysadmins (yes and MCSEs too) know that you shouldnt jump on bandwagons,.NET wont be seriously pervasive until years after its launch, so maybe instead of going on about how Microsoft is leveraging its monopoly blah blah blah we ought to look at Linux's strengths. Like terminal services for instance. Microsoft didn't invent that as they might have you believe - get a few old P75's, network them together, put an application server and you have a centrally adminstrateable server with almost zero-maintainance cost. Want to do that with Win2K? sure, after you fork out thousands of $$$ for something that isnt much better, if at all. KDE's fast becoming a serious desktop platform, together these two capabilities could really make a decent corporate solution. And if you think this is a pipe dream it seems to be good enough for a whole city to use. (yes I know they still use Citrix machines, but not as much as the KDE boxen hmm?)
And that's just one possible application. Linux seems to be doing everything except making coffee these days (hell, even that) and more and more people seem to be using Linux these days in both client and server space, so screw Microsoft. People dont use NFS or Apache because its compatible with MS proprietary stuff. Learn from history too; OS/2 tried to be an advanced platform as well as being Windows compatible. Don't see OS/2 around much these days, do you?
I'm sure some of you will disagree with me but in my humble opinion the mono effort isnt a great idea. Why not implement an open source.NET? thats what we should have been doing from the start, instead of following behind. That or jump over.NET and do the Next Big Thing, whatever that may be. Or stuff compatibility and instead focus on making a better open UNIX platform, people arent falling over themselves to shell out for MS' latest technology you know. I'm losing my point anyways, so enough karma whoring for one day, but never theless, I suppose this is worth thinking about
I regged a few days ago... but they seemed a little eager to get my registration so after a bit of editing in/etc/aliases I made myself an adress to take the hit. Sure enough, immediately I started getting spam in my mailbox. Hoping some kinds script kiddie would DDoS the NYT site in his infinite boredom, I wiped the alias. Remember that - FOR GODS SAKE DONT REGISTER THERE WITH YOUR REAL EMAIL!
Look, this isnt gonna happen. The point is when DMCA stopped Linux users from viewing DVD's via DeCSS, the common man didnt care. The problem is, Joe Sixpack has grown used to being able to record whatever, then being able to fast through the ad crap.
Now, try telling the common person that s/he can no longer timeshift because of 'digital content piracy'. Let's face it, they can mount all the propaganda campaigns they want, however at the end of the day people are going to get PISSED. Slashdotters may yell how unfair it is that DMCA is squashing their right to view DVD's or something, but I doubt several million americans are going to give up their right to record programs without a fight.
Or you could move to the UK;) at least its still SOMEWHAT sane... business culture over here is too conservative: "World domination? I dunno, that sounds a bit risky..."
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Alright, so Microsoft is trying to strangle out interoperability. And this is new because?.. ;)
Just my two cents, but personally I think that we're barking up the wrong tree here. Even if this new .NET centerpiece causes serious interoperability problems, one has to take note of Microsoft's other decisions; the fact that its currently shooting itself in the foot with licensing for instance. All good sysadmins (yes and MCSEs too) know that you shouldnt jump on bandwagons, .NET wont be seriously pervasive until years after its launch, so maybe instead of going on about how Microsoft is leveraging its monopoly blah blah blah we ought to look at Linux's strengths. Like terminal services for instance. Microsoft didn't invent that as they might have you believe - get a few old P75's, network them together, put an application server and you have a centrally adminstrateable server with almost zero-maintainance cost. Want to do that with Win2K? sure, after you fork out thousands of $$$ for something that isnt much better, if at all. KDE's fast becoming a serious desktop platform, together these two capabilities could really make a decent corporate solution. And if you think this is a pipe dream it seems to be good enough for a whole city to use. (yes I know they still use Citrix machines, but not as much as the KDE boxen hmm?)
And that's just one possible application. Linux seems to be doing everything except making coffee these days (hell, even that) and more and more people seem to be using Linux these days in both client and server space, so screw Microsoft. People dont use NFS or Apache because its compatible with MS proprietary stuff. Learn from history too; OS/2 tried to be an advanced platform as well as being Windows compatible. Don't see OS/2 around much these days, do you?
I'm sure some of you will disagree with me but in my humble opinion the mono effort isnt a great idea. Why not implement an open source .NET? thats what we should have been doing from the start, instead of following behind. That or jump over .NET and do the Next Big Thing, whatever that may be. Or stuff compatibility and instead focus on making a better open UNIX platform, people arent falling over themselves to shell out for MS' latest technology you know. I'm losing my point anyways, so enough karma whoring for one day, but never theless, I suppose this is worth thinking about
I regged a few days ago... but they seemed a little eager to get my registration so after a bit of editing in /etc/aliases I made myself an adress to take the hit. Sure enough, immediately I started getting spam in my mailbox. Hoping some kinds script kiddie would DDoS the NYT site in his infinite boredom, I wiped the alias. Remember that - FOR GODS SAKE DONT REGISTER THERE WITH YOUR REAL EMAIL!
I take a SuSE machine, then login as eg 'bin' over SSH and enter any old password and I'm let in?
OK, I swear I am NEVER going to rip on Microsoft for crap security again.
Look, this isnt gonna happen. The point is when DMCA stopped Linux users from viewing DVD's via DeCSS, the common man didnt care. The problem is, Joe Sixpack has grown used to being able to record whatever, then being able to fast through the ad crap.
;) at least its still SOMEWHAT sane... business culture over here is too conservative: "World domination? I dunno, that sounds a bit risky..."
Now, try telling the common person that s/he can no longer timeshift because of 'digital content piracy'. Let's face it, they can mount all the propaganda campaigns they want, however at the end of the day people are going to get PISSED. Slashdotters may yell how unfair it is that DMCA is squashing their right to view DVD's or something, but I doubt several million americans are going to give up their right to record programs without a fight.
Or you could move to the UK
But what about that damn new module tree? i hate that.