Microsoft stole all it's ideas from other companies. It won a precedent-setting lawsuit against apple over the copyright of Apple's "look & feel". What they gonna do, claim fvwm95 or StarOffice or KDE stole the look&feel they stole from the Mac?
It would be funny to see them try.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
SCO would have MS's ass if they got into the UNIX market. As UNIX-like as Linux may be, UNIX is a brand name. So in trade-agreement parlance, Linux wouldn't count.
-- As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I would expect Microsoft to follow suit in short order with their own, Win32 desktop for Linux--so Linux users can finally enjoy the benefits of a "standard" and "professional" user interface.
MS is all about protecting the Windows franchise. That's what all of their other products are meant to do. If they start supporting another OS, their empire starts to unravel.
A horde of enthusiasts is hard to ignore. Every poll they have had has been slammed 2:1 for Linux and against Microsoft.
You think people don't pay attention to these numbers? You think pretty polls might have something to do with all the high-end product offerings we've been graced with this year? I do. And every new product boosts the penguin in people's estimations, which leads to more confidence, which leads to more followers, which leads to more skewed polls.
Toiling on code is of course central, but for every developer there are 500 user-enthusiasts who have the function of getting us attention. And attention is good.
ZD isn't stupid. Berst is, but the editors aren't. OK, maybe they are.
But they do know that Microsoft pays for advertising in their crapola magazines and Linux doesn't. Linux rage (in their estimation) is getting out of their control, and they're trying to rein it in to secure their profit base, pure and simple.
My company sells indemnity insurance to it's developers to protect them from their own board of directors.:-)
BTW, I've been hanging around c.s.y2k for a while. Yesterday (March 1) was the start of fiscal 2000, which was supposed to bring on a whole slew of so-called "Jo-Anne Effect" bugs from the 9-month look-aheads. So far I haven't seen anything.
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Whoo! It's getting warm in here!
3 months ago, this would have concerned me.
Today this is just pure amusement.
Burn baby burn!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Linux would be dead if it weren't for the brilliance of the GPL.
Minix isn't exactly sweeping the nation.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I wish I lived in your world. Everyone around here is interested in one of three things:
1. Money
2. Avoiding work
3. Getting into each others' pants.
What Color is your Parachute is a very common book to see on people's desk where I work.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Having experienced the September that Never Ended, and the AOL deluge, I don't have a lot of confidence.
:-)
I guess guys like me feel the need to always be on the edge. Linux just moved one more step away from the edge.
Linux is dead! Long like Linux!
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Couldn't get on all day! :-)
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
If Opera supported automatic proxy configuration, I'd use it.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Thank you for your interest in Linux.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
None.
Microsoft stole all it's ideas from other companies. It won a precedent-setting lawsuit against apple over the copyright of Apple's "look & feel".
What they gonna do, claim fvwm95 or StarOffice or KDE stole the look&feel they stole from the Mac?
It would be funny to see them try.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Sorry, the name is really growing on me.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
SCO would have MS's ass if they got into the UNIX market. As UNIX-like as Linux may be, UNIX is a brand name. So in trade-agreement parlance, Linux wouldn't count.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I filled out the application last night. They specifically ask what processor you're using, Intel, AMD, PPC, etc. I put down my Alpha.
This kinda suggests this may not be an intel-only realease. Pretty cool.
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
I didn't notice that they said so explicitly.
Will the binaries work on a regular Linux machine?
Will it be compiled for Intel processors or what?
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As long as each individual is facing the TV tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege.
Everyone get off C|Net so I can hear Linus! Yeesh!
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Lotsa programs out there that are binary-only RPM's.
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What we need now is to slap say, 32 of these $30 chips together and make a whoopity-ass SMP Linux machine.
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I would expect Microsoft to follow suit in short order with their own, Win32 desktop for Linux--so Linux users can finally enjoy the benefits of a "standard" and "professional" user interface.
MS is all about protecting the Windows franchise. That's what all of their other products are meant to do. If they start supporting another OS, their empire starts to unravel.
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That's fine for the long-term, assuming the records survive. What do you do in the interim? Can't use cash, can't eat dirt...
You could grow stuff on it, that would be something anyhow.
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The record of your ownership will likely be maintained in a database somewhere.
:-)
Buy precious metals, you can carry them with you.
Hurry though, the US Mint has already run out of silver
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A horde of enthusiasts is hard to ignore. Every poll they have had has been slammed 2:1 for Linux and against Microsoft.
You think people don't pay attention to these numbers? You think pretty polls might have something to do with all the high-end product offerings we've been graced with this year?
I do. And every new product boosts the penguin in people's estimations, which leads to more confidence, which leads to more followers, which leads to more skewed polls.
Toiling on code is of course central, but for every developer there are 500 user-enthusiasts who have the function of getting us attention. And attention is good.
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"Linux == Microsoft killer" leads at 38%
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ZD isn't stupid. Berst is, but the editors aren't. OK, maybe they are.
But they do know that Microsoft pays for advertising in their crapola magazines and Linux doesn't. Linux rage (in their estimation) is getting out of their control, and they're trying to rein it in to secure their profit base, pure and simple.
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Rebooting won't fix it :)
Like the old AD&D rule: If your character dies of poison, cure the poison *before* ressurecting him or he will just die of poison again.
Yeesh, AD&D analogies. How geeky is that.
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My company sells indemnity insurance to it's developers to protect them from their own board of directors. :-)
BTW, I've been hanging around c.s.y2k for a while.
Yesterday (March 1) was the start of fiscal 2000, which was supposed to bring on a whole slew of so-called "Jo-Anne Effect" bugs from the 9-month look-aheads. So far I haven't seen anything.
Hm.
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And my mouse cursor is an X! And there's no icons! Help!
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No no no. Not time travel, 4 spatial dimensions.
I want a card that can render 2 million tesseracts per second dammit!
Actually, this could probably be done.
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