I have been waiting for years for this to happen. The Internet is finally catching some of it's newspaper roots: you can either sell space to advertisers and have a cheap newspaper, or charge money for the newspaper and not give space to advertisers. In any case, there isn't a free lunch.
How does being open source make it as scalable as you want it to be? Does this work both ways? Can I install Apache in my wristwatch (MY wristwatch, not some silly little demo thing)? Does that mean it can automatically be ported to my toaster?
Someone needs to think about the difference between design and implementation (and about the difference between fiction and reality)
I don't know about "big fat profit", but they simply have a different revenue model then "charge for the whole thing up front". In fact, they are fairly similar to the Open Source plan of "Give away the stuff and then sell the support."
Linux IS stagnant. It is a pile of stuff loaded on to someone's personal project to duplicate a Unix-based OS.
Microsoft, while they are an easy target because they maintain so much backwards compatibility (they have to, their customers cannot re-install Gnome every time someone breaks binary compatibility) has innovated. They have created new object models (even if they are a bit clunky). They have come up with several different database APIs (some clunky, some not, but all useful in one way or another). They have actually produced things.
Apple's work with Aqua/Quartz and their new UI design (even if it is pretty much just NeXT Dock 2000) shows interesting appliations of vector-based graphics and hardware accellerated image transforms to do things like curve windows along an arbitrary path and handle transparency in ways that work effectively.
BeOS provides an object-oriented API that is easy to use. It provides a media kit and translation API. It has a team/thread archetecture and port/semaphore system unlike any other OS (other then AtheOS, which is merely a parroting of BeOS).
The first Unixes were innovative. They created multiuser APIs, file-based driver models and IPC methods, and workd. Linux is just the same old stuff with more hackers, less progress, and a different license.
Even the HURD, according to its home page, is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel, and by its own admission, is designed to provide Unix-like features for the underlying microkernel. Parroting the work of others is not innovation--it is masturbation.
This issue (Microsoft asking that you remove [arguably] copyrighted) information from a public form has absolutely nothing to do with the naming of "MS Kerberos Services", open source, click-wrap licenses, or the DOJ trial.
I get the feeling that Microsoft's letter has provoked just the response they expected--a knee-jerk "Oh Yeah? Well, what about the fact that your breath smells?" response one would get from a 14 year old who has just been caught stealing chewing gum down at the corner market.
Its a strange world we live in when companies actually reject customers who are Willing and Able to buy their product in the hundreds.
I'm pretty sure this statement demonstrates how out-of-touch with real life markets and companies many members of the slashdot community are. One cannot sell a product in quantities measured in hundreds and expect to make a living, much less a profit.
It is going to be one of many Memory Stick devices. Sony was big on them at Comdex. Expect to see them make a play to replace CompactFlash and SmartMedia with Memory Stick Technology in cameras, music devices, and other appliances.
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I have been waiting for years for this to happen. The Internet is finally catching some of it's newspaper roots: you can either sell space to advertisers and have a cheap newspaper, or charge money for the newspaper and not give space to advertisers. In any case, there isn't a free lunch.
Are you on crack?
How does being open source make it as scalable as you want it to be? Does this work both ways? Can I install Apache in my wristwatch (MY wristwatch, not some silly little demo thing)? Does that mean it can automatically be ported to my toaster?
Someone needs to think about the difference between design and implementation (and about the difference between fiction and reality)
I don't know about "big fat profit", but they simply have a different revenue model then "charge for the whole thing up front". In fact, they are fairly similar to the Open Source plan of "Give away the stuff and then sell the support."
This argument isn't about comparing desktops vs. portables, it is about comparing Transmeta's Chips with Intel's, AMD's, and National Semiconductor's.
Linux IS stagnant. It is a pile of stuff loaded on to someone's personal project to duplicate a Unix-based OS.
Microsoft, while they are an easy target because they maintain so much backwards compatibility (they have to, their customers cannot re-install Gnome every time someone breaks binary compatibility) has innovated. They have created new object models (even if they are a bit clunky). They have come up with several different database APIs (some clunky, some not, but all useful in one way or another). They have actually produced things.
Apple's work with Aqua/Quartz and their new UI design (even if it is pretty much just NeXT Dock 2000) shows interesting appliations of vector-based graphics and hardware accellerated image transforms to do things like curve windows along an arbitrary path and handle transparency in ways that work effectively.
BeOS provides an object-oriented API that is easy to use. It provides a media kit and translation API. It has a team/thread archetecture and port/semaphore system unlike any other OS (other then AtheOS, which is merely a parroting of BeOS).
The first Unixes were innovative. They created multiuser APIs, file-based driver models and IPC methods, and workd. Linux is just the same old stuff with more hackers, less progress, and a different license.
Even the HURD, according to its home page, is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel, and by its own admission, is designed to provide Unix-like features for the underlying microkernel. Parroting the work of others is not innovation--it is masturbation.
This issue (Microsoft asking that you remove [arguably] copyrighted) information from a public form has absolutely nothing to do with the naming of "MS Kerberos Services", open source, click-wrap licenses, or the DOJ trial.
I get the feeling that Microsoft's letter has provoked just the response they expected--a knee-jerk "Oh Yeah? Well, what about the fact that your breath smells?" response one would get from a 14 year old who has just been caught stealing chewing gum down at the corner market.
Its a strange world we live in when companies actually reject customers who are Willing and Able to buy their product in the hundreds.
I'm pretty sure this statement demonstrates how out-of-touch with real life markets and companies many members of the slashdot community are. One cannot sell a product in quantities measured in hundreds and expect to make a living, much less a profit.
It is going to be one of many Memory Stick devices. Sony was big on them at Comdex. Expect to see them make a play to replace CompactFlash and SmartMedia with Memory Stick Technology in cameras, music devices, and other appliances.
I think it kicks ass, myself.
They might say that, but having the RedHat letter DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY QUALIFY YOU TO MAKE RISKY INVESTMENTS IN THE STOCK MARKET.