You can't actually believe what you are saying so it's hard to take your post seriously. If you actually believed what you are saying you'd offer more than:
"Regarding jobs getting lost, I also agree."
Great, so tell us, you spend one whole paragraph declaring the troubles compatibility in regards to Linux however unless I'm out of touch, incompatibility is French for job security. This is not an argument about platforms supremacy, it's about someone going out there and putting the fear of god into developing countries who quite frankly NEED Linux and Open Source to stay competitive..
Here he is, at these conferences, Mr. Gates I mean, telling everyone who will listen that the sky is falling and Open Source will hurt the global economy and kill jobs. Who is he, who is he to say that. As far as I know, he's a menial programmer in his own "glory" day who went on to become fortunate enough to graduate to megalomaniac?
To hit on one of your points, developing countries benefit greatly, from time to market, to product development costs, from Linux and Open Source products. And, unless my mind has gone away for the weekend, I believe it still takes a man or a woman to program, whether it's a Linux API or C (Sharp), both of which equals employment.
The fact that MSFT specifically is loosing jobs might surely be accurate but I sincerely believe that with 54 billion in the bank, if one man or woman losses his or her job at Microsoft, it's only at the wishes of Microsoft and not an effect of economic trends, or a global "crisis" as Mr. Gates would have us believe.
He's not just wrong here, he's flippantly wrong, he's frivolously wrong. He's a sad man
I don't know what Mr. Gates is trying to prove here, other than to point out the fact that he's out of touch with revenue generation. Microsoft has historically been a software company relying on resellers or direct point of sale operations for to push its products. However, for most organizations, professional services and support services generate many jobs and much more revenue than licenses can generate.
SUNW is a great example of a company, flush with intellectual property and proprietary software, going south faster than a cheerleader at a football party. Sure, they have they're consulting arms and professional services, but it's fairly new. They still do not have any significant managed services or long-term customer engagements that generate any sizeable revenue. They lost that privilege when they maintained a sell-and-bolt strategy during their glory days.
StorageTEK, of all places, surprisingly enough is the 2nd or 3rd largest services organization in the world. By staying agnostic to vendors, they are able to come in and support everything from day-to-day operations, to long term configuration and capacity planning. And they do it very well I might add.
To bring this all back to Linux and OpenSource, they are technology products plain and simple. And like all technology products they require a certain degree of support and services that companies may or may not have in house, the latter being more common than the former. It's just silly of Mr. Gates to play on fears of job losses and unsubstantiated claims; he's going out there, to these companies and conferences and preaching about the horrors of OpenSource. I do seem to recall the gloom-and-doom approach in one of college courses, as a specific method of selling; however I can't seem to ever recall an instance where it has ever worked out in the long term.
If OpenSource is so bad, it's Mr. Gates is making a hypocrite out of himself regarding his own organizations "Shared Source", which listening to what Mr. Gates has to say, I can only conclude is a lame duck attempt at mimicking the "Horrors" and "Evil" of Open Source?
To say that "Hey, I read this somewhere, this Open Source, I don't know if it's true or not, but it's costing people their jobs" shows that he's not only worthless as a software architect, but worthless as a human being.
For whatever reason, I think dating back to my bbs days, I have used elite@slip.net. Back then it was more common for anonymous ftp servers requiring an email address but since the advent of the internet it has been used for just about everything from public forums to quick-and-dirty registration (ala NYTimes). One trick I have learned regarding registration requiring an email response is that I can use my valid email address to initially setup and respond to the automated email verification and, once verified, log into my account and replace the valid email address with my fake one. I think I chose slip.net because I got my first email address right around the time I first started to use linux and back then ppp/slip was a massive pain in the ass
As usual, the coolest of cool Nokia phones are only available to the European, Asian, and Japanese markets. I would definitely like to get the 8910i, however I live in the US and I am un-sure how/or if I could get that phone to work here. What service provider would I go through?
The manufacturers wouldn't make them if people didn't want them. I hear the word 'grande' more often at a starbucks than I do a 'short'. Supply and Demand
I wouldn't get to used to this 'revolution' in internet advertising. Righ now 6 figure marketing execs are in thier respective war rooms trying to figure out more lucrative ways for advertising on the internet. It has been know for quite sometime that pop-ads and banner ads have a very low click-through rate. I just phear what they might come up with next to replace them...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, because it's really hard to get to 127.0.0.1 without a large pipe ...
.. sniff
For some reason, it seems 127.0.0.1 always has what I'm looking for, excellent site! I just wish I had more bandwidth
You can't actually believe what you are saying so it's hard to take your post seriously. If you actually believed what you are saying you'd offer more than:
.
"Regarding jobs getting lost, I also agree."
Great, so tell us, you spend one whole paragraph declaring the troubles compatibility in regards to Linux however unless I'm out of touch, incompatibility is French for job security. This is not an argument about platforms supremacy, it's about someone going out there and putting the fear of god into developing countries who quite frankly NEED Linux and Open Source to stay competitive.
Here he is, at these conferences, Mr. Gates I mean, telling everyone who will listen that the sky is falling and Open Source will hurt the global economy and kill jobs. Who is he, who is he to say that. As far as I know, he's a menial programmer in his own "glory" day who went on to become fortunate enough to graduate to megalomaniac?
To hit on one of your points, developing countries benefit greatly, from time to market, to product development costs, from Linux and Open Source products. And, unless my mind has gone away for the weekend, I believe it still takes a man or a woman to program, whether it's a Linux API or C (Sharp), both of which equals employment.
The fact that MSFT specifically is loosing jobs might surely be accurate but I sincerely believe that with 54 billion in the bank, if one man or woman losses his or her job at Microsoft, it's only at the wishes of Microsoft and not an effect of economic trends, or a global "crisis" as Mr. Gates would have us believe.
He's not just wrong here, he's flippantly wrong, he's frivolously wrong. He's a sad man
I don't know what Mr. Gates is trying to prove here, other than to point out the fact that he's out of touch with revenue generation. Microsoft has historically been a software company relying on resellers or direct point of sale operations for to push its products. However, for most organizations, professional services and support services generate many jobs and much more revenue than licenses can generate.
SUNW is a great example of a company, flush with intellectual property and proprietary software, going south faster than a cheerleader at a football party. Sure, they have they're consulting arms and professional services, but it's fairly new. They still do not have any significant managed services or long-term customer engagements that generate any sizeable revenue. They lost that privilege when they maintained a sell-and-bolt strategy during their glory days.
StorageTEK, of all places, surprisingly enough is the 2nd or 3rd largest services organization in the world. By staying agnostic to vendors, they are able to come in and support everything from day-to-day operations, to long term configuration and capacity planning. And they do it very well I might add.
To bring this all back to Linux and OpenSource, they are technology products plain and simple. And like all technology products they require a certain degree of support and services that companies may or may not have in house, the latter being more common than the former. It's just silly of Mr. Gates to play on fears of job losses and unsubstantiated claims; he's going out there, to these companies and conferences and preaching about the horrors of OpenSource. I do seem to recall the gloom-and-doom approach in one of college courses, as a specific method of selling; however I can't seem to ever recall an instance where it has ever worked out in the long term.
If OpenSource is so bad, it's Mr. Gates is making a hypocrite out of himself regarding his own organizations "Shared Source", which listening to what Mr. Gates has to say, I can only conclude is a lame duck attempt at mimicking the "Horrors" and "Evil" of Open Source?
To say that "Hey, I read this somewhere, this Open Source, I don't know if it's true or not, but it's costing people their jobs" shows that he's not only worthless as a software architect, but worthless as a human being.
For whatever reason, I think dating back to my bbs days, I have used elite@slip.net. Back then it was more common for anonymous ftp servers requiring an email address but since the advent of the internet it has been used for just about everything from public forums to quick-and-dirty registration (ala NYTimes). One trick I have learned regarding registration requiring an email response is that I can use my valid email address to initially setup and respond to the automated email verification and, once verified, log into my account and replace the valid email address with my fake one. I think I chose slip.net because I got my first email address right around the time I first started to use linux and back then ppp/slip was a massive pain in the ass
As usual, the coolest of cool Nokia phones are only available to the European, Asian, and Japanese markets. I would definitely like to get the 8910i, however I live in the US and I am un-sure how/or if I could get that phone to work here. What service provider would I go through?
The manufacturers wouldn't make them if people didn't want them. I hear the word 'grande' more often at a starbucks than I do a 'short'. Supply and Demand
I wouldn't get to used to this 'revolution' in internet advertising. Righ now 6 figure marketing execs are in thier respective war rooms trying to figure out more lucrative ways for advertising on the internet. It has been know for quite sometime that pop-ads and banner ads have a very low click-through rate. I just phear what they might come up with next to replace them ...