IBM is struggling to redefine themselves as the "service company". Now they let Red Hat do the support for them. I suspect IBM's just trying to benefit from the current media hype surrounding Red Hat and anything around it. Once the hype is over, IBM will grab the support back, I bet.
Come on, this can't be real. A "benevolent despot" is what Microsoft was called by Judge Jackson. It's a concept that doesn't mix well with the idea of Open Source. I can understand people defending Linus for what he's done, but this is going too far.
Midnight Commander's interface isn't much more than a clone of the good old Norton Commander from DOS days. So, while it is a useful tool, it certainly doesn't belong into a list of "best designed interfaces" -- the original Norton Commander should have been nominated instead (oh my, that's not Open Source, how dare I say anything good about it).
This is about selecting the project that has improved the most. Selecting the entity that can make best use of the money and claiming their project has improved most is quite much like conducting a benchmark test after selecting which product will win.
Referring to the previous story as the "CDuniverse inforansom scandal" fits in quite well. I really hope Slashdot can stand the temptation to become the geek tabloid.
That sounds like quite a useless statement to me. Hey, Microsoft Office is "Open Source above the API", with the API being VBA and nothing there above it. Does anyone know if there is anything in HKS's product that's actually open-sourced?
This is the standard line from warez d00dz claiming Microsoft only got where they are by people using warez copies. Sounds nice but doesn't convince anybody. And ESR also got the economics of DVD fundamentally wrong. Players are cheap today (what's the cheapest, US$ 200?), the money is made from the movies. So, while he's fighting the common enemy, I dont't at all agree with ESR's article.
Trust me, after a few weeks of training, using the middle finger for scrolling will seem just natural. And, of course, a strengthened middle finger will come handy if you're in need for a quick obscene gesture.
4. If you're using Deja ratings to decide which MP3 player or toaster to buy, great. That's really what they're designed for.
Sorry to say that, but if you're using the Deja ratings to decide anything, you're just plain stupid. Even without someone intentionally pushing the result he wants, there's just no real substance in there. You could as well ask the next person on the street, "Which toaster should I buy?" and base your decision on that.
Someone who does like Linux seems to like Perl scripts, too. Well, it could also be a "human Perl script", consisting of a few thousand Slashdot readers who think it's important to vote there.
Some of the things they're doing may be good and a real "advance of civilization", although there are big risks. But other things, like preventing the modified plants' reproduction, don't help anybody but Monsanto. On a global scale, this can only be called evil.
Hasn't this been discussed a million times in connection with the SETI@home client (see their FAQ)? I don't think a real solution has been found yet, but it's kind of the same problem as with Quake.
The $8 figure was said to have been arbitrarily established by us" to raise about $23 million after expenses and "bears no relationship whatsoever to our assets, earnings, book value, or other criteria of value."
This is so true for many recent IPO's, but I've never seen anyone actually admit it.
If they create a standard against Sun, how can they expect the world to follow it? With the next round of additions from Sun, Ecma's "standard Java" (which they'd have to choose some other name for) would look like "poor man's choice". The Ecma people may be bitter now, but when thinking about it, that move would help nobody.
Look at how long it took to complete the C++ standard. I still expect a lot to happen about Java in the next years, so a slow standards body would actually be a Bad Thing.
It's the only way for Red Hat to survive. They have a ridiculously high market capitalization and no prospect of ever generating enough revenue from their ditribution business to justify that value. So they can only use their market value to buy out companies that make real products until their business volume is somewhat closer to justifying their market value. And remember, they're not paying for those takeovers in cash, they're paying with their own stock, of course.
Moreover, the Pick operating system required eight to 10 hours to migrate data to Windows machines for database integration, or even to simply import the data into a spreadsheet -- operations that are nearly instantaneous running Linux.
Seems to me they are mixing up things very badly here. Hardware, OS, applications, who cares? Kind of like the "What OS are you using? -- Word." people. I hope the guys who made the decision to migrate are better informed.
Why can't some people understand that we need companies to develop things? Where would we be today if there were no commercial ("proprietary") software? Where would we be if companies like Sun weren't around to build new hardware? Speaking of "sickening and sad", I can't stand the hatred towards companies that seek to make money from their work. Sun's SCSL is a great thing for their customers, as they get the extra security of having the source. Who are you to tell them it's bad because it's "treason" and not the GPL?
...and the contributions by others. If the Gnome people decide to make a new version that's not under GPL, they just have to get rid of other people's code, and nobody can stop them.
Spend lots of money to develop Gnome, then give it away and hope to make money on support? Well, everyone at Slashdot seems to think that's the business model of the future, but I don't think it will succeed. I'll take every bet they will end up doing some SCSL-like licensing tricks in the end, or completely drop the whole Gnome thing and just use the name to do some other business (did anyone say Transmeta?).
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IBM is struggling to redefine themselves as the "service company". Now they let Red Hat do the support for them. I suspect IBM's just trying to benefit from the current media hype surrounding Red Hat and anything around it. Once the hype is over, IBM will grab the support back, I bet.
Come on, this can't be real. A "benevolent despot" is what Microsoft was called by Judge Jackson. It's a concept that doesn't mix well with the idea of Open Source. I can understand people defending Linus for what he's done, but this is going too far.
Midnight Commander's interface isn't much more than a clone of the good old Norton Commander from DOS days. So, while it is a useful tool, it certainly doesn't belong into a list of "best designed interfaces" -- the original Norton Commander should have been nominated instead (oh my, that's not Open Source, how dare I say anything good about it).
This is about selecting the project that has improved the most. Selecting the entity that can make best use of the money and claiming their project has improved most is quite much like conducting a benchmark test after selecting which product will win.
That's quite a difference...
Referring to the previous story as the "CDuniverse inforansom scandal" fits in quite well. I really hope Slashdot can stand the temptation to become the geek tabloid.
That sounds like quite a useless statement to me. Hey, Microsoft Office is "Open Source above the API", with the API being VBA and nothing there above it. Does anyone know if there is anything in HKS's product that's actually open-sourced?
This is the standard line from warez d00dz claiming Microsoft only got where they are by people using warez copies. Sounds nice but doesn't convince anybody. And ESR also got the economics of DVD fundamentally wrong. Players are cheap today (what's the cheapest, US$ 200?), the money is made from the movies. So, while he's fighting the common enemy, I dont't at all agree with ESR's article.
Trust me, after a few weeks of training, using the middle finger for scrolling will seem just natural. And, of course, a strengthened middle finger will come handy if you're in need for a quick obscene gesture.
Sorry to say that, but if you're using the Deja ratings to decide anything, you're just plain stupid. Even without someone intentionally pushing the result he wants, there's just no real substance in there. You could as well ask the next person on the street, "Which toaster should I buy?" and base your decision on that.
Someone who does like Linux seems to like Perl scripts, too. Well, it could also be a "human Perl script", consisting of a few thousand Slashdot readers who think it's important to vote there.
GMT is ahead of US time, so it won't help much in keeping people in suspense on new year's day.
Some of the things they're doing may be good and a real "advance of civilization", although there are big risks. But other things, like preventing the modified plants' reproduction, don't help anybody but Monsanto. On a global scale, this can only be called evil.
Hasn't this been discussed a million times in connection with the SETI@home client (see their FAQ)? I don't think a real solution has been found yet, but it's kind of the same problem as with Quake.
This is so true for many recent IPO's, but I've never seen anyone actually admit it.
If they create a standard against Sun, how can they expect the world to follow it? With the next round of additions from Sun, Ecma's "standard Java" (which they'd have to choose some other name for) would look like "poor man's choice".
The Ecma people may be bitter now, but when thinking about it, that move would help nobody.
Look at how long it took to complete the C++ standard. I still expect a lot to happen about Java in the next years, so a slow standards body would actually be a Bad Thing.
Just a quick note on the side:
Did you know that Red Hat's market capitalization is twice that of National Semiconductor?
It's the only way for Red Hat to survive. They have a ridiculously high market capitalization and no prospect of ever generating enough revenue from their ditribution business to justify that value. So they can only use their market value to buy out companies that make real products until their business volume is somewhat closer to justifying their market value. And remember, they're not paying for those takeovers in cash, they're paying with their own stock, of course.
What else can they say?
Seems to me they are mixing up things very badly here. Hardware, OS, applications, who cares? Kind of like the "What OS are you using? -- Word." people. I hope the guys who made the decision to migrate are better informed.
Why can't some people understand that we need companies to develop things? Where would we be today if there were no commercial ("proprietary") software? Where would we be if companies like Sun weren't around to build new hardware? Speaking of "sickening and sad", I can't stand the hatred towards companies that seek to make money from their work. Sun's SCSL is a great thing for their customers, as they get the extra security of having the source. Who are you to tell them it's bad because it's "treason" and not the GPL?
...and the contributions by others. If the Gnome people decide to make a new version that's not under GPL, they just have to get rid of other people's code, and nobody can stop them.
Spend lots of money to develop Gnome, then give it away and hope to make money on support? Well, everyone at Slashdot seems to think that's the business model of the future, but I don't think it will succeed. I'll take every bet they will end up doing some SCSL-like licensing tricks in the end, or completely drop the whole Gnome thing and just use the name to do some other business (did anyone say Transmeta?).
I remember a time when it was common to use real names in Usenet. Funny how no one mentioned this so far.