So you drank the Kool Aid of a world without ideologies, aims and objectives.
All can be judged only on technical terms, one can remain blissfully ignorant of the impacts at a social and political level.
If it wasn't for the folks that set their feet firmly in a political agenda, we would not have Linux, BSD and even OpenSolaris, which gives us our last hope of having any choice when it comes to the OS market (even OSX and the iPhone are derivatives of works inspired by people with clear political views about the future of computing and technology).
I think a technician, engineer or programmer that does not consider the wider implications of embracing a technology is as bad, maybe even worse, than one with patchy knowledge of the technology at hand.
You sir are a danger to society because are a lost bullet when it comes to social issues and have enough technological know how to affect the world around you.
Novell is not Linux, they don't represent the whole Linux community, they can't sign patent agreements in everybody else's name.
If code developed by Novell with help of MS find its way into lets say Red Hat, Solaris or Ubuntu, please pray tell me what is stopping MS to let lose its patent lawyers?
For goodness sakes, Ballmer is on record making patent related threats... Wake the fuck up!
Java promise was to made the underlying OS unimportant. "Write once run everywhere". They were just ahead of their time, the machines back them could not cope with the demands of this promise. Now that they can and manage fine in fields as diverse as enterprise services and mobile devices.
The irrelevance of the OS rightly concerned MS who tried the only thing they know: to embrace and destroy. They were aiming to corrupt the Java standard, go google for it. At the end they had to settle with Sun but in terms that left no doubt that they had been the losers. If Java had not been a real threat MS would have not concerned itself about it.
Enter the Internet (which MS almost missed) and the humble web browser. The web browser is promising, yet again, platform independence. A well designed application could run equally well in any device (including mobile ones), so here again the 90%+ dominance of the market by MS is being threatened by the likes of Google and many other companies offering web based services. The amazing uptake of devices like the EEE PC, Nokia N800 tablet, iPhone (all non MS platforms) is showing you don't need MS to provide successful services.
And what does MS od? What MS is doing is perverting that concept by designing something similar (a language running in a virtual machine) but ensuring it only works in MSware. So it is all over again MS wanting to keep their monopoly alive.
And here we are, with people don't getting it and cheering or justifying MS in spite of having been legally slapped in multiple occasions for their predatory commercial tactics and in spite of their explicit threats of patent litigation meltdown.
Microsoft has signed a patent covenant protecting Novell and the code they contribute to Mono from patent claims
Novell is not Linux (or anybody else for that matter). The rest of the industry is not protected, it is perfectly possible that other distros using Mono could find themselves the target of Uncle Ballmer's legal team .
So again, why should we use Mono if we are not Miguel de Icaza or other Novell employees?
Mono is copying an MS technology (which they may have copied from Java and others, but hey, everybody on this industry pretends to be inventing the sliced bread all by themselves).
MS's CEO has explicitly threatened Linux companies regarding patented "inventions".
Now tell me, why should any sane person attempting to develop open solutions should use mono or any other technology aping (how apt) MS's closed, most likely patented implementations of any technology?
Wait for Uncle Ballmer and his patent troll bandwagon (something about which de Icaza is now blissfully unconcerned giving who is paying his paycheck).
"Throwachair" Ballmer has made perfectly clear his intentions, but here we are, with many/.ers inviting us to make our own noose from that dirty MS rope.
Such idiocy is akin to say that a Radio or TV station, or a magazine or a newspaper, are advertisement companies. Or tha the Super Bowl is an advertisement event.
Advertisement, is a source of revenue, but their product is highly accurate search results of stuff in the Internet, or email service , or picture repository.
You name it, but the revenue stream is advertisement.
If they were an advertisement company they would sell ads and place them somewhere visible (like double click I suppose, that branch of google may adjust to that description).
Is what the license says. That is the whole point of the GNU license.
Honestly folks, hone your reading comprehension skills, sometime is amazing to read the claims made around here that are easily dispelled by reading one or two documents....
They think it is OK to live in Manchester and commute to London to work.
In many places in Europe most people live in the same town where they work, thus they rely in local transport that is far more predictable than trains (well, UK trains, trains in most other places run punctual, but hey, the friends of Margaret Thatcher made a real killing when they sold their shares in the privatized train companies. A real gravy train if there ever was one) and much faster than cars.
The UK has a love affair with cars that is not dissimilar with the US's.
People in the US can't be bothered to get rid of a President and a political class that is patently screwing them and the world around them.
Are you guys going to fight nail and tooth for a copyright reform? No, not really.
When we see the lobbying efforts in the US congress to bring copyright and patent law in the US to sane limits give us a ring, otherwise the musing of a blogger (from his basement?) amount to no more than a momentary diversion from the traditional political apathy and maniqueism prevalent in US politics.
Jobs are an economic commodity, not the base of dreamy prospectus about how life should be.
You ignore that at your own peril.
In any case, what you describe as thee American Dream was built in ferocious militarism and enforced economic inequality.
It could not last and in general terms the ending of it will be seen as a good riddance, even by US historians in the future (honestly pal, do you think it is ethical that every time you have nothing to do with your military industry you go and kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can enjoy an unsustainable level of comfort?)
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This is a lie. Let it be dead please.
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Modern distros like Ubuntu or Fedora install almost by themselves, the only sticky point at the moment is WiFi support.
And with machines like the EEE PC this will be a non issue
That is why the play chess, go for a walk, get involved in politics or do something that does not involve sitting in front of a fucking computer.
... I can rest assured that Linux is not dead, and am almost certain it is growing significantly.
No wonder so many people have problems with their debts.
If the current rates of growth would continue the number of users of both kind of systems would be roughly the same in 10 years.
Just for starters, and I am not even a pop music listener....
So you drank the Kool Aid of a world without ideologies, aims and objectives.
All can be judged only on technical terms, one can remain blissfully ignorant of the impacts at a social and political level.
If it wasn't for the folks that set their feet firmly in a political agenda, we would not have Linux, BSD and even OpenSolaris, which gives us our last hope of having any choice when it comes to the OS market (even OSX and the iPhone are derivatives of works inspired by people with clear political views about the future of computing and technology).
I think a technician, engineer or programmer that does not consider the wider implications of embracing a technology is as bad, maybe even worse, than one with patchy knowledge of the technology at hand.
You sir are a danger to society because are a lost bullet when it comes to social issues and have enough technological know how to affect the world around you.
Bloody scary and demoralizing.
Novell is not Linux, they don't represent the whole Linux community, they can't sign patent agreements in everybody else's name.
If code developed by Novell with help of MS find its way into lets say Red Hat, Solaris or Ubuntu, please pray tell me what is stopping MS to let lose its patent lawyers?
For goodness sakes, Ballmer is on record making patent related threats... Wake the fuck up!
No patent threats?
Go on. Convince us.
Java promise was to made the underlying OS unimportant. "Write once run everywhere". They were just ahead of their time, the machines back them could not cope with the demands of this promise. Now that they can and manage fine in fields as diverse as enterprise services and mobile devices.
The irrelevance of the OS rightly concerned MS who tried the only thing they know: to embrace and destroy. They were aiming to corrupt the Java standard, go google for it. At the end they had to settle with Sun but in terms that left no doubt that they had been the losers. If Java had not been a real threat MS would have not concerned itself about it.
Enter the Internet (which MS almost missed) and the humble web browser. The web browser is promising, yet again, platform independence. A well designed application could run equally well in any device (including mobile ones), so here again the 90%+ dominance of the market by MS is being threatened by the likes of Google and many other companies offering web based services. The amazing uptake of devices like the EEE PC, Nokia N800 tablet, iPhone (all non MS platforms) is showing you don't need MS to provide successful services.
And what does MS od? What MS is doing is perverting that concept by designing something similar (a language running in a virtual machine) but ensuring it only works in MSware. So it is all over again MS wanting to keep their monopoly alive.
And here we are, with people don't getting it and cheering or justifying MS in spite of having been legally slapped in multiple occasions for their predatory commercial tactics and in spite of their explicit threats of patent litigation meltdown.
Keep the good work missing the main issues.
Microsoft has signed a patent covenant protecting Novell and the code they contribute to Mono from patent claims
Novell is not Linux (or anybody else for that matter). The rest of the industry is not protected, it is perfectly possible that other distros using Mono could find themselves the target of Uncle Ballmer's legal team .
So again, why should we use Mono if we are not Miguel de Icaza or other Novell employees?
Mono is copying an MS technology (which they may have copied from Java and others, but hey, everybody on this industry pretends to be inventing the sliced bread all by themselves).
MS's CEO has explicitly threatened Linux companies regarding patented "inventions".
Now tell me, why should any sane person attempting to develop open solutions should use mono or any other technology aping (how apt) MS's closed, most likely patented implementations of any technology?
You paint us all this rosy MS loves open source and what not but fail to see where is the patent protection.
Go on, surprise us, show us unequivocally that no Linux distro is going to be sued by using this technology.
Wait for Uncle Ballmer and his patent troll bandwagon (something about which de Icaza is now blissfully unconcerned giving who is paying his paycheck).
/.ers inviting us to make our own noose from that dirty MS rope.
"Throwachair" Ballmer has made perfectly clear his intentions, but here we are, with many
Guess not.
So 95% of satisfaction?
Says who?
How big is each population of users?
And anyway, how many people are shelling out the insane amounts of money for the contract and phone? (in the UK it is the equivalent of around $2000)
Honestly, google a bit. OK use MS search engine.
They have declared to have monopolistic control of the market of Operating Systems, both in the EU and the US.
All your inane babbling is misguided because regulators and the judicial system are past arguing that point.
Such idiocy is akin to say that a Radio or TV station, or a magazine or a newspaper, are advertisement companies. Or tha the Super Bowl is an advertisement event.
Advertisement, is a source of revenue, but their product is highly accurate search results of stuff in the Internet, or email service , or picture repository.
You name it, but the revenue stream is advertisement.
If they were an advertisement company they would sell ads and place them somewhere visible (like double click I suppose, that branch of google may adjust to that description).
Is what the license says. That is the whole point of the GNU license.
Honestly folks, hone your reading comprehension skills, sometime is amazing to read the claims made around here that are easily dispelled by reading one or two documents....
But it would have mattered at the beginning. It would have cost a big wad of money extra.
Their insight was to leverage FOSS for that from the beginning.
They think it is OK to live in Manchester and commute to London to work.
In many places in Europe most people live in the same town where they work, thus they rely in local transport that is far more predictable than trains (well, UK trains, trains in most other places run punctual, but hey, the friends of Margaret Thatcher made a real killing when they sold their shares in the privatized train companies. A real gravy train if there ever was one) and much faster than cars.
The UK has a love affair with cars that is not dissimilar with the US's.
What is the point of this article?
People in the US can't be bothered to get rid of a President and a political class that is patently screwing them and the world around them.
Are you guys going to fight nail and tooth for a copyright reform? No, not really.
When we see the lobbying efforts in the US congress to bring copyright and patent law in the US to sane limits give us a ring, otherwise the musing of a blogger (from his basement?) amount to no more than a momentary diversion from the traditional political apathy and maniqueism prevalent in US politics.
Most software development happens in house anyway.
Many people in rich countries do not know what poverty is, even people considered poor there.
I will tell you what it is: having to bury you mother in a communal grave because you don't have money.
Think about that before repeating such idiotic asseverations.
That is the main beauty of the eeepc: a truly portable, usable laptop.
See it as a proof of concept, and it is driving home the point that putting Windows adds to the cost...
Jobs are an economic commodity, not the base of dreamy prospectus about how life should be.
You ignore that at your own peril.
In any case, what you describe as thee American Dream was built in ferocious militarism and enforced economic inequality.
It could not last and in general terms the ending of it will be seen as a good riddance, even by US historians in the future (honestly pal, do you think it is ethical that every time you have nothing to do with your military industry you go and kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can enjoy an unsustainable level of comfort?)