i just wanted to add my thanks to everyone elses. thoughout the day i relied on slashdot to learn the newest information, and pointed several friends to it. thank you for all the hard work and great jobs you guys have done on such a constant basis. as one of many people who looked to you for the latest news i was never disappointed and always well pleased with the performance, and the content.
this post made me think of an section by ayn rand: (to paraphrase badly)
we can't control the lawful, so we have to make it so everyone breaks the law
i didn't think too much of that at the time of reading it but, it does seem like the us gov't is trying to make it to where everyone has boken the law at one point or another.
i am sorry but this is not microsoft taking a step in the direction of becoming open source. yes we should be afaird of helping them. we help them to make this a better produce, then this happens: they can say that they use the open source community to make their products giving them a better image in the media; they will also be able to claim that their product is stronger because of the test (whether they actually fix any of the bugs or not) and continue to dominate the market. both ways only contribute to microsoft's dominance, niether will really make it a better company, or make win2k a better product, and it will that much harder for a decent stable os like linux to find its share in a market that desperately needs it. so are we really hypocrites to be afaird of the new big brother?
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i just wanted to add my thanks to everyone elses. thoughout the day i relied on slashdot to learn the newest information, and pointed several friends to it. thank you for all the hard work and great jobs you guys have done on such a constant basis. as one of many people who looked to you for the latest news i was never disappointed and always well pleased with the performance, and the content.
this post made me think of an section by ayn rand: (to paraphrase badly)
we can't control the lawful, so we have to make it so everyone breaks the law
i didn't think too much of that at the time of reading it but, it does seem like the us gov't is trying to make it to where everyone has boken the law at one point or another.
i am sorry but this is not microsoft taking a step in the direction of becoming open source. yes we should be afaird of helping them. we help them to make this a better produce, then this happens: they can say that they use the open source community to make their products giving them a better image in the media; they will also be able to claim that their product is stronger because of the test (whether they actually fix any of the bugs or not) and continue to dominate the market. both ways only contribute to microsoft's dominance, niether will really make it a better company, or make win2k a better product, and it will that much harder for a decent stable os like linux to find its share in a market that desperately needs it. so are we really hypocrites to be afaird of the new big brother?