So what you are saing is that it is OK for a goverment to decide to remain hostage to the needs of a foreign company when it comes to computing goods?
What you are saying is that if one day the Peruvian goverment can't pay its dues, it is OK that they can't have access to modern software unless they make a migration to free software to use closed applications?
What you are saying is that it is OK for a goverment to store sensitive data in propietary formats that change according to the whims of a foreign company bound by the laws of a foreign ountry that if angry, would not hesitate to embargo them?
Heck, the more I think about it, the more I think goverments should not rely on closed software, or at least should not use closed formats to store their data.
I hope Peru sees the light in spite of the obscene amount of sping that MS is applying to this matter (saying they donate this much US$, which in case it comes in the form of MS products, is a donation of far less money with strings attached, unless they donated also support and license renewals for a sizeable time in the future).
If you allow OSS in your company or institution, then you need to audit it.
But I would consider the salary of a team of OSS auditors a necessary investment, specialy talking about goverments: the audit is done only once and then the product is made available to all the branches of goverment once it is declared clean.
It is also important to remeber that many oss projects have a comercial enterprise selling services nad I am sure, they will be willing to certify a version of the software as fit for public use.
These companies then may be accountable, unlike others that wash their hands invoking EULAs.
If what you want is to look more and more like Vietnam, China, or Cuba, where you have to report every single movement you do to a goverment agency, then yes, you are right.
Otherwise a private service can't abrogate peoples rights. They have to search you to make sure you don;t have a weapon. I don't care if you are tyhe Dalai Lama or Osama bin Laden, a proper security policy should make the plane safe irrespective of who you are, reason for which they don't need to know who you are.
Now, if you feel comfortable submitting yourself to rules you can't contest (how is that different to the security guys making the rules on the spot) then move to Cuba, you will feel happy there.
-The pledge of allegiance is wrong not because it hurts atheists, but because it disregards separation of church and state. -What do you suggest about homosexuality? To pretend it does not exist and jail the people that are homosexuals? -How would you call targetting people for how they look and not for intelligence information you may have? If all the intelligence information you have is "muslims are terrorists" that is called racism, plain and simple. -You are also suggesting that if your relatives break the law, the family should shoulder in support and ignore it. WHo are you? The Goodfather?
Consumerism is certainly wrong, we should fight mindless consumerism, but to try to intermingle that with favoring things like racism and homophobia and ignoring both the letter and the spirit of laws to suit our needs is absolutely disgraceful.
I want open information for all, not information and data controlled by a few.
If the price I have to pay for that is a few (very few, how difficult is apt-get install? ) session tweaking this or that, so be it.
I have not touched Windows at home for 1 year now(I play games, I write and share documents, I make presentation, I scan, I print).
The fonts are ugly you say? Gee, I can read these ones very well, and any way I have in no high regard somebody that chooses restrictive technology based in subjective aesthetic reasons.
Every time I go to a new site that works flawlesly with Mozilla/Linux I drop a quick mail of appreciation explaining why I used their site.
People that stick to standards and do the right thing normaly answer back and are very grateful for the encouragement they receive from paying costumers (then they can show evidence that sticking to standards does really pay).
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So what you are saing is that it is OK for a goverment to decide to remain hostage to the needs of a foreign company when it comes to computing goods?
What you are saying is that if one day the Peruvian goverment can't pay its dues, it is OK that they can't have access to modern software unless they make a migration to free software to use closed applications?
What you are saying is that it is OK for a goverment to store sensitive data in propietary formats that change according to the whims of a foreign company bound by the laws of a foreign ountry that if angry, would not hesitate to embargo them?
Heck, the more I think about it, the more I think goverments should not rely on closed software, or at least should not use closed formats to store their data.
I hope Peru sees the light in spite of the obscene amount of sping that MS is applying to this matter (saying they donate this much US$, which in case it comes in the form of MS products, is a donation of far less money with strings attached, unless they donated also support and license renewals for a sizeable time in the future).
The other two aren't.
So your point is?
Moore's "law" is not such, it is an informed guesstimate.
Also bear in mind that when density begins from a very low number exponential increase can be sustained for longer.
If my company wants me to work in my own home, with my own computer equipment, they better hell provide the softrware I need to do my work.
So far all companies have done so.
The argumrnt that one is forced to pirate Word because one needs to bring work home is complete bunk.
If you allow OSS in your company or institution, then you need to audit it.
But I would consider the salary of a team of OSS auditors a necessary investment, specialy talking about goverments: the audit is done only once and then the product is made available to all the branches of goverment once it is declared clean.
It is also important to remeber that many oss projects have a comercial enterprise selling services nad I am sure, they will be willing to certify a version of the software as fit for public use.
These companies then may be accountable, unlike others that wash their hands invoking EULAs.
... windows and office retraining costs neither.
If transition is so fsking simple, all those "Learn Windows for Idiots in 24 minutes" should be a figment of my retard imagination.
This is getting tiring. You want to be locked up with one vendor? Being a goverment? Taking that decision only based in TCO???
You would not get my vote then.
Every week.
It sounds like few people really NEED that many GBytes...
In a business environment Solaris is king nad MacOS X is a nice curiosity, cute, like an AIBO or a Furby.
If what you want is to look more and more like Vietnam, China, or Cuba, where you have to report every single movement you do to a goverment agency, then yes, you are right.
Otherwise a private service can't abrogate peoples rights. They have to search you to make sure you don;t have a weapon. I don't care if you are tyhe Dalai Lama or Osama bin Laden, a proper security policy should make the plane safe irrespective of who you are, reason for which they don't need to know who you are.
Now, if you feel comfortable submitting yourself to rules you can't contest (how is that different to the security guys making the rules on the spot) then move to Cuba, you will feel happy there.
-The pledge of allegiance is wrong not because it hurts atheists, but because it disregards separation of church and state.
-What do you suggest about homosexuality? To pretend it does not exist and jail the people that are homosexuals?
-How would you call targetting people for how they look and not for intelligence information you may have? If all the intelligence information you have is "muslims are terrorists" that is called racism, plain and simple.
-You are also suggesting that if your relatives break the law, the family should shoulder in support and ignore it. WHo are you? The Goodfather?
Consumerism is certainly wrong, we should fight mindless consumerism, but to try to intermingle that with favoring things like racism and homophobia and ignoring both the letter and the spirit of laws to suit our needs is absolutely disgraceful.
.... as the utter piece of crap it is...
... I guess I dreamt about all those .ini files in previous Windows incarnations.
And surely, the registry is more convenient than plain text files.
"universal forces"
Umh, yeah. May the force be with you as well.
Thank you very much.
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Yes Mom, you can carry on reading
"Normal users" were not that stupid when it came to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files or when it comes down to modify the windows Registry.
Some how that was and still is acceptable.
Comes Linux, that has most (all?) of its configuration in clear text files, and somehow that is supposed to be more difficult.
Give me a fscking break.
Do you know what an ironic sentence is?
It is the most spoken language in the Phillipines.
I want open information for all, not information and data controlled by a few.
If the price I have to pay for that is a few (very few, how difficult is apt-get install? ) session tweaking this or that, so be it.
I have not touched Windows at home for 1 year now(I play games, I write and share documents, I make presentation, I scan, I print).
The fonts are ugly you say? Gee, I can read these ones very well, and any way I have in no high regard somebody that chooses restrictive technology based in subjective aesthetic reasons.
I want information, relevant information, not idiotic flash snipets.
How is people going to use search engines if everything is in Flash...???
Every time I go to a new site that works flawlesly with Mozilla/Linux I drop a quick mail of appreciation explaining why I used their site.
People that stick to standards and do the right thing normaly answer back and are very grateful for the encouragement they receive from paying costumers (then they can show evidence that sticking to standards does really pay).
And they were found to be in acourt of law.
As for evil, well, there is no blinder person than the one that does not want to open his eyes.
One can't blame lack of competence on MS...
...using all that non existen petrol....