If not for AMD, Intel would be selling us slower CPUs at higher prices. Every purchases of an AMD CPU helps to keep Intel honest and the CPU market competitive.
Support the Rebel Alliance, buy AMD CPUs!
Aren't you glad you use AMD? Dont you wish everyone did?
Just more blatant M$ astroturf (i.e. fake grass-roots) to tell our grandchildren about.
You cant blame the M$ people for trying the same tricks that what worked against OS/2 in the past. It won't work against GNU/Linux/Apache/XFree86 and the rest because they are _free_.
Sorry Bill, only the best tasting software gets to be free.
1) Total asset forfeiture - just like a drug case. 2) All M$ patents and copyrights transferred to public domain. 3) All M$ executives of VP and above banned from conducting business anywhere forever. This would include board membership in any company. 4) Permit civil legal actions against M$ executives (VP and above) by corporations and individuals to drain the remaining cash that is in the hands of the M$ millionares. 5) Require the children of VP and above to attend public schools. All of this is necessary to prevent other corporations from even trying the kinds of evil mis-deeds that M$ has perpetrated on society.
They would move into the buildings of the M$ campus in Redmond and format all hard drives then install Linux everywhere. Then on the second day they would lay-off all M$ employees and invite them back on day three for a job fair. If you know enough about *nix and are willing to take a cut in pay, then you _could_ be re-hired.
What about a old timer *nix guru forced to MSCE?
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Lumpy wrote
>>Now I am training the IT department for them >>with a reccomendation of NOT hiring anyone that >>says the acronym MSCE.
Not _everyone_ who has an MSCE is an M$ goon. Admittedly the MSCE is totally an MS specific course and gives you no alternatves. But some people with MSCE are senior *nix gurus who would prefer to use Linux or anything close to unix. Espcially when the alternative is from M$.
So please re-state your recomendation about "not hiring anyone that says acronym MSCE" to make an exception for people who are ashamed to have an MSCE.
What a great group of people that Slashdot attracts. I would look at "Rob's problem" if the _current_ source was available. I bet that many others with more time than I have would also be happy to pitch in and help.
In the information age these two legal constructs are anachronisms. We should begin phase out of the Patent and the Copyright and replace them both a GNU-GPL flavored legal construct.
As for M$, they would make an ideal place to begin the phase out. As part of the remedy in the federal anti-trust trial, M$ patents should all become public property. Each new M$ copyright would only have a duration of 3 years.
Sound resonable?
Could be that Bill Gates made Dell do Linux.
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But like I said, without the DOJ antitrust trial, this would have never happened. So even if Dell is bowing to M$ pressure to support Linux to aid M$ in the trial, this would never have happened without the trial. It is not too far fetched to think that Mr Dell would have done Linux if that is what Bill Gates asked him to do.
Never would of happend without DOJ trial.
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Dell and the rest were all bowing to M$ pressure until the DOJ put M$ on trial. Go DOJ!
After posting my opinion of M$ illegal tactics Bob Gaiswinkler from M$ sent me a series of nasty and harrassing emails. Obviously he felt that it was his duty as a M$ employee to bother people who take exception with M$ criminal activity.
One time I sent him a link to a story that referenced by Slashdot. His response made it clear to me that even though I never mentioned Slashdot to him, he was well aware of Slashdot. Bob went on another of his rants and said "an org of 29000 people does not mean shit."
M$ employees are definitely organized to distribute FUD, and to harrass people who express negative views of M$. I know this to be true.
I posted my opinion about M$ on a ZDnet TalkBack forum. I included my email address in the post. Soon after I started receiving a series of nasty emails for a M$ employee who gave his name as Bob Gaiswinkler. He obviously felt that it was part of his job to spend his time writing emails to people who take exception to the illegal tactics M$ has used for many years. Naturally they would post there own opinions on Slashdot as Anonymous Coward. I smell a big fat M$ rat!
Having IBM's name and marketing pushing systems running GNU-Linux, Apache and other Free Software will propel open source into the mainstream.
I always said Linux could be a contender. j.b.
Shared/cooperative development is innovation.
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The truly significant _invention_ is the shared source code cooperative software development methods that were used to develop GNU-Linux, Apache web server, et al.
I retract the remark about "publicity going to his head." It was in error and completely without basis.
I even hesitate to blame the editor of the interview for missing the important point of the whole Free/Open Software movement. What is important and historic about Linux has more to do with the way that it was developed that the contributions on and single individual.
Linus fails to give credit where credit is due.
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Linus says that he invented Linux in 1991. Seems to me Linus Torvalds invented nothing. He deserves credit for implementing a POSIX design that was invented by others. By starting his development in Minux, Linus also should give credit to Tannenbaum. Mostly I wish Linus had mentioned Richard Stallman, GNU and the Free Software Foundation. With so many glaring omissions, one might suppose that Linus is hogging too much of the credit for software created by a large community of programmers.
If you cut open a windoze hacker and a un*x hacker, would there internals appear to be any different? No.
It is not the programmers that gives windoze its "use-ability." The MFC makes it easy for windoze programmers to include all those "use-ability" features in their applications. M$ programming tools include wizards that make it easy to pop up some decent looking GUI interface in minutes. The problem with many windoze apps is that the underlying logic and operation of the program too often fails to live up to the high expectations that the GUI helps to engender.
In contrast, un*x hackers more often focus on getting the basic functionality implemented correctly. Often there is only a simple command line interface. There is a far greater probablity that if a un*x programmer takes the time to implement a GUI version of an application, that the underlying logic and functionality is already stable and debugged.
There is a great deal of influence imposed by each different development environment on the look and feel and functionality of applications.
M$ -> Easy to generate some kind of spiffy GUI. Sometimes impossible for highest gurus to circumcode buggy os calls.
GNU-Linux -> Rock solid system implementation, but lacks the wizards that allows anyone who can click on "OK" to generate a GUI based application.
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For once M$ is trying to create something rather than embrace/extend/smother like they have been with JAVA.
For once I don't have anything negative to say about something that M$ is going to be doing.
Am I slipping up and becoming a Microsoft schill?
If not for AMD, Intel would be selling us slower CPUs at higher prices. Every purchases of an AMD CPU helps to keep Intel honest and the CPU market competitive.
Support the Rebel Alliance, buy AMD CPUs!
Aren't you glad you use AMD?
Dont you wish everyone did?
Just more blatant M$ astroturf (i.e. fake grass-roots) to tell our grandchildren about.
You cant blame the M$ people for trying the same tricks that what worked against OS/2 in the past. It won't work against GNU/Linux/Apache/XFree86 and the rest because they are _free_.
Sorry Bill, only the best tasting software gets to be free.
1) Total asset forfeiture - just like a drug case.
2) All M$ patents and copyrights transferred to public domain.
3) All M$ executives of VP and above banned from conducting business anywhere forever. This would include board membership in any company.
4) Permit civil legal actions against M$ executives (VP and above) by corporations and individuals to drain the remaining cash that is in the hands of the M$ millionares.
5) Require the children of VP and above to attend public schools.
All of this is necessary to prevent other corporations from even trying the kinds of evil mis-deeds that M$ has perpetrated on society.
They would move into the buildings of the M$ campus in Redmond and format all hard drives then install Linux everywhere. Then on the second day they would lay-off all M$ employees and invite them back on day three for a job fair. If you know enough about *nix and are willing to take a cut in pay, then you _could_ be re-hired.
Lumpy wrote
>>Now I am training the IT department for them >>with a reccomendation of NOT hiring anyone that >>says the acronym MSCE.
Not _everyone_ who has an MSCE is an M$ goon.
Admittedly the MSCE is totally an MS specific course and gives you no alternatves. But some people with MSCE are senior *nix gurus who would prefer to use Linux or anything close to unix. Espcially when the alternative is from M$.
So please re-state your recomendation about "not hiring anyone that says acronym MSCE" to make an exception for people who are ashamed to have an MSCE.
Your Obedient Serpent,
smithdog
Put some game console emulators on Linux and viola! You have a computer for the masses.
Cheers!
ah, maybe someday after,
Bill G. is committed to a mental hospital.
M$ stock plummets to $0.24 per share.
RedHat Linux continues to gain market share.
Could happen someday.
What a great group of people that Slashdot attracts. I would look at "Rob's problem" if the _current_ source was available. I bet that many others with more time than I have would also be happy to pitch in and help.
Cheers,
smithdog
while the internet community of hackers fixes the database problem.
I recall from the article that "most of the time was spent" loading the browser application from the disc. What a stupid comparison!
In the information age these two legal constructs are anachronisms. We should begin phase out of the Patent and the Copyright and replace them both a GNU-GPL flavored legal construct.
As for M$, they would make an ideal place to begin the phase out. As part of the remedy in the federal anti-trust trial, M$ patents should all become public property. Each new M$ copyright would only have a duration of 3 years.
Sound resonable?
But like I said, without the DOJ antitrust trial, this would have never happened. So even if Dell is bowing to M$ pressure to support Linux to aid M$ in the trial, this would never have happened without the trial.
It is not too far fetched to think that Mr Dell would have done Linux if that is what Bill Gates asked him to do.
Dell and the rest were all bowing to M$ pressure until the DOJ put M$ on trial. Go DOJ!
After posting my opinion of M$ illegal tactics Bob Gaiswinkler from M$ sent me a series of nasty and harrassing emails. Obviously he felt that it was his duty as a M$ employee to bother people who take exception with M$ criminal activity.
One time I sent him a link to a story that referenced by Slashdot. His response made it clear to me that even though I never mentioned Slashdot to him, he was well aware of Slashdot.
Bob went on another of his rants and said "an org of 29000 people does not mean shit."
M$ employees are definitely organized to distribute FUD, and to harrass people who express negative views of M$. I know this to be true.
I posted my opinion about M$ on a ZDnet TalkBack forum. I included my email address in the post. Soon after I started receiving a series of nasty emails for a M$ employee who gave his name as Bob Gaiswinkler. He obviously felt that it was part of his job to spend his time writing emails to people who take exception to the illegal tactics M$ has used for many years.
Naturally they would post there own opinions on Slashdot as Anonymous Coward.
I smell a big fat M$ rat!
Since "munitions" are subject to strict export controls the USAF flavor of Linux would have to be distributed in the United States only.
Or am I wrong?
Right. Gates made Ballmer President. Gates remains CEO. Glad you could refresh my memory. :-)
Glad that I was not under oath
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
Having IBM's name and marketing pushing systems running GNU-Linux, Apache and other Free Software will propel open source into the mainstream.
I always said Linux could be a contender. j.b.
The truly significant _invention_ is the shared source code cooperative software development methods that were used to develop GNU-Linux, Apache web server, et al.
I retract the remark about "publicity going to his head." It was in error and completely without basis.
I even hesitate to blame the editor of the interview for missing the important point of the whole Free/Open Software movement. What is important and historic about Linux has more to do with the way that it was developed that the contributions on and single individual.
And BTW, Bill Gates did not invent BASIC.
Cheers.
All this publicity is going to his head.
Linus says that he invented Linux in 1991. Seems to me Linus Torvalds invented nothing. He deserves credit for implementing a POSIX design that was invented by others. By starting his development in Minux, Linus also should give credit to Tannenbaum. Mostly I wish Linus had mentioned Richard Stallman, GNU and the Free Software Foundation. With so many glaring omissions, one might suppose that Linus is hogging too much of the credit for software created by a large community of programmers.
I for one, feel that WINE is a mistake. More of a waste of time really. WINE is not relavant.
If you cut open a windoze hacker and a un*x hacker, would there internals appear to be any different? No.
It is not the programmers that gives windoze its "use-ability." The MFC makes it easy for windoze programmers to include all those "use-ability" features in their applications. M$ programming tools include wizards that make it easy to pop up some decent looking GUI interface in minutes. The problem with many windoze apps is that the underlying logic and operation of the program too often fails to live up to the high expectations that the GUI helps to engender.
In contrast, un*x hackers more often focus on getting the basic functionality implemented correctly. Often there is only a simple command line interface. There is a far greater probablity that if a un*x programmer takes the time to implement a GUI version of an application, that the underlying logic and functionality is already stable and debugged.
There is a great deal of influence imposed by each different development environment on the look and feel and functionality of applications.
M$ -> Easy to generate some kind of spiffy GUI. Sometimes impossible for highest gurus to circumcode buggy os calls.
GNU-Linux -> Rock solid system implementation, but lacks the wizards that allows anyone who can click on "OK" to generate a GUI based application.
This too shall pass...