So I see a lot of folks here are wondering if cell could be sampled from living animals--that way, there's no murder, no death. Maybe people could probably feel comfortable with that. However, under Kashrut laws, meat that from a living animal is not kosher.*
Some other folks ask about cloning human meat; that wouldn't be kosher, either, simply because human flesh does not lie in that specific, defined list of Kosher animal species as defined by Jewish law.
No one seems to be addressing the fact that cells will probably still be sampled over and over again. While less animals suffer with cloning meat, slaughtering for the sake of 'cloned meat' sources would probably continue.
- Roey
------------ * It wouldnt'be like rennet since cloned meat is by definition the re-growth of the actual muscle tissue of the sampled host animal.
I think the movie can make a powerful impact with someone like Sigourney Weaver playing the Major, as she's an established icon for powerful women. I hope hope *hope* this film won't feature another sexy but twenty-somethings (like they ones in Terminator 3, Ultra Violet, and Resident Evil) who make up for lack of charisma and character with boobs and lipstick. For Batuo maybe someone from the likes of David Carradine, Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman*.. someone older and grayer, tougher. No clue who would make a good Togusa.
Anyone else here happy that GitS has kept the same Japanese voice actors across all three films and anime series? I sure am. Especially considering the nine-year lapse between the first two films.
- Roey
* I was thinking also of Hugh Laurie, but then, I can see the movie turning out a comedic medical thriller)
Red Car -> ISO body (Judge Doom utters this line in Roger Rabbitt) Two standards good, one standard better -> reference to Animal Farm Embrace, extending and extinguish -> Microsoft's handling of the ISO standards-making process
The common thread among all these quotes is how downright sinister they are behind a gentle and seemingly caring facade; they're all working within the system to bring it down from the inside.
> If they really want an OOXML "Ceasefire", then they should offer a compromise with the opponents of OOXML.
>Namely: revoke the standard and allow it to continue to be reworked.
Why work on OOXML, though, when a standard like ODF already exists? IMO there's no need for additional baggage like OOXML for those few extra features that ODF lacks, when ODF could be (carefully) amended instead.
Because the next step is to decommission ODF. Read the writing on the wall; you have two standards that overlap, and one company that is willing to push any amount of money to get their way. We might yet see Microsoft "agreeing" with its detractors that one standard is better than two--and then you can logically extrapolate from that what their next move will be.
Another version reads: "Two standards good, One standard better!" Or perhaps summed up clearest: "Embrace, extend, extinguish."
Why should MS "go back to the drawing board" in the first place, instead of just implementing ODF? (though I grant you that's a rhetorical question, since ODF serves to discourage the kinds of lock-in that Microsoft's business model appears to depend on)
Ya know, with every third story tagged "whatcanpossiblygowrong", the descriptor quickly starts losing its character. Sure, I can see the humor in applying it to stories about monkeys genetically engineered to fart marshmellows or as a slap back against the hubris in some gene company spokesman's discovery announcement speech, but it's getting overused...
The pattern you describe has a name, it's called the "Wheel of Reincarnation". The Jargon File specifically mentions graphics equipment, even:
"[coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Samsara, and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter."
So once you make that transaction with your cell phone, what happens next? The Verizon service tries to connect to your TiVo, which may sit inside your home network. How will Verizon access your device, in this case? Your Internet-facing router both NATs packets and blocks ports. If you change the requisite configuration as per Verizon's liking, who's to say that this will not leave your Tivo vulnerable to hack attempts?
I'm sick of this shit. Tivo and Replay and whatever other proprietary PVRs the cableco's sell dictate to YOU what you're allowed to do. You can't skip commercials, transfer video off the internal hard drive (unless it's resolution-crippled), and you probably can't extend the system to play free formats like FLACs, Vorbis, and Theora. Ah well, such is the price of consumers' complacency. Those consumers are the same ones who, a few years up the road from now, will subscribe to Symantec's antivirus for cell phones.
To be really specific, it seems like Israel happens to be the only Mideastern country you know about. Perhaps because it's the most "Western", having been reinvented by generations of European and American immigrants. Who mostly evolve Western technologies, just like their cousins who stayed home do.
Much of uniquely Israeli technology was invented to deal with the unique challenges that the area poses.
- The concept of a stateful firewall, starting with Check Point I (is it even worth it to call anything non-stateful a firewall? If so, then how far could we take things--maybe we could call password prompts 'firewalls' as well)
- airline security as the world knows it
How about the Talmud. Anyone who wants to patent the concept of hypertext can look there for prior art.
But besides 'uniquely Israeli innovations', what does it matter that they be unique? What, you want we should start our inventions from a square wheel on up? Even Newton stressed that he developed his own work on the shoulders of giants.
>Except for all the chemicals the government has rather >arbitrarily decided you aren't allowed to put into your >own body.
and
>And you can't drive without wearing your seatbelt
I've heard it argued that people gettng into trouble as a result of doing stupid things to their bodies does financially stresses the National health care system. We've all heard statistics of how many lives seatbelts have saved since the 40's; how about money? Less seat belts and more heroin & coke addicts -> higher health care costs -> higher taxes.
I've been waiting for the community to chime in with some suggestions...
I'm also a sysadmin, and I find myself with the same problems in logging and keeping things organized. A couple of issues that I haven't seen any project management app address include:
1) Overlapping projects (i.e. projects which shar resources such as computers or software components) with contextual views. If I want to make a note about the Exchange server's antivirus autoprotect status, I want this particular system (and the note I attached to it) to be visible both to the Exchange Maintenance project AND the Antivirus Maintenance project.
2) Making on-the-fly references. If I add an entry to my DNS server maintenance log regarding changes to Active Directory provisions (_sites, _msdc, etc.) then I'd like to be able to insert a reference to the Active Directory server. If other admins click on the link, it'd take them to the information page for the AD server.
3) Revision history and multi-user awareness. Actually, this is covered by most of them, including Trac.
So basically these requirements boil down to this:
I'm looking to (either get or implement) a Project Management application that lets me define object instances (personal contacts, diary entries, projects, computer networks & components, trouble tickets) and lets me instantiate them and reference them anywhere. Revision history is important, as is multi-user access, the ability to define view filters, and the ability to attach objects to other objects (for example, adding a diary entry to a System object in order to make a work log for that System).
I think that the Wiki approach is simple and elegant, and would not require too much coding.
The recent--and constantly improving--development of write-leveling in the Flash firmware and the OS filesystem drivers has made this essentially a non-issue. By distributing repeated writes to different cells, modern Flash possesses a far greater resiliency than that of Flash produced before wear leveling was introduced. For more information, check out the this whitepaper. I believe it quotes a lifetime of something like.55 days versus 49 years for repeated writes to same logical block or sector (remember, with wear leveling enabled, the physical cell you're writing to may be different each time).
For filesystem-level wear leveling (i.e., filesystems designed for flash memory), check out YAFFS and JFFS2.
For information about wear-leveling in general, see its Wikipedia entry.
"In a recent article, John Dvorak trashes [himself] as being, 'one of the dumbest [people] to ever put forth [an opinion about] the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rollingly dumb on the same scale as believing that the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.'
Are people in the US and England so naive they actually believe their leaders can kill 10s of thousands of people a year without putting them in serious danger?
I really feel for the dead britishs but I think in this moment more than any other it's time to realize the lenght of the terrible mistake that is the war started by the US and England
Your chronology is out of alignment; 9/11 happened before the Iraq war, not the other way around. Seems like people like you are so intent on bashing America and the Bush administration that their surreptitious alteration of the facts is not below them.
people will want to defend themselves against the aggression, it is normal to do so, does anyone trully thought they wouldn't?
Oh, so Islamists are merely "defending themselves", how civilized. No. Islamism's stated objectives are to wage war with, conquer, and subjugate the West. Islamists are on their own track; to that end, they'll continue plotting and attacking regardless of what America, the UK, Israel or any other Western country/Big Satan/Little Satan does.
How many Slashdotters would bother with reading it, do you think?
What's the word to describe this washed-down commercialization of science news that characterizes stories like these, the content of the Discovery Channel and TLC?
What exactly is being preserved by making sure at least the mother is real?
What does the mother being "real" have to do with it? For that matter, what is "real"? A real what? Lemme ask you this: how else (other than lineage) would you establish tribal descent? It looks like you're asking a different question about what makes maintaining Judaism as an identity, culture, and religion so important.
The line's genetics are already so diluted from thousands of years of non-Jewish fathers
that it's probably only 1/1000th original Israeli genes.
Where did you get the 1/1000th figure from? Did you pull it out of thin air? Have you heard it before? Did you compute this number? If so, what were the initial conditions you used in your calculation? Also, "Israeli" is a nationality a little over fifty years old. "Israelite" or "Ben Israel" (plural, "Bney Israel") is the term used to refer to historical Jews.
So would you consider a baby orphaned from Jewish parents, but raised by atheists, a Jew? yes; the concept of membership in a religion being predicated on the level of belief constitutes an entirely non-Jewish view (evangelical Christian, perhaps but not Jewish).
He is neither practicing nor aware of any of these common cultural values you speak of.
I didn't say membership was predicated on practice. You're mixing these issues again. I said that Judaism is more than just a religion; it encompasses cultural values, too. Inclusion into the Jewish religion is through either matrilineal descent *or* converstion, period.
If you can fuck each other and have babies, you are human, and these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes
Again, you're mixing issues. How does "you are human" have anything to do with the rest of your tirade?
these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes.
This is a totally different argument than anything you've said so far; you don't offer any sort of proof for this statement, nor are you stating how it applies to the Jewish identity, religion and culture specifically.
Does it strike anyone else as ridiculous that any group of individuals identifies themselves and conglomerates through maternal bloodlines, let alone religion (be it Judiasm or Christianity or Islam)? This arbitrary grouping is absurd to the extreme and is based on some magical fiction passed down for millenia. It's crazy! And it's causing SO MUCH pain for everyone involved! Why?
Several points here:
First off, the concept of Jewish identity tied to the mother exists in part because it is much easier to prove who gave birth to the baby than who made the mother pregnant. Thus the ruling, if the mother is Jewish, the baby is Jewish. Put in better words:
"For one, a child's mother is always known, while the father couldn't be positively identified before modern technology. Also, the Jewish people suffered a long history of oppression, during which Jewish women were sometimes raped by their oppressors. Instead of casting out the woman and the child born of the rape, the Jewish community took them in by considering the child to be Jewish." (source)
Does this clear it up for you? Hopefully this makes it less "arbitrary" (and hey, maybe there is some logic after all to this "magical fiction"!)
Second, different religions do it differently; in Islam it goes by the father. In certain sects of Christianity, a newborn child is not even Christian until they're baptized or go through some other ceremony.
Third, Judaism is more than a religion; it encompasses common cultural values.
All this make a lot of money for the GNU/Linux vendors, who sell their blessing to commercial companies (e.g. "Works With Red Hat 9").
I'd like to see someone support GNU/Linux as a target instead of specific distributions. Blah blah LSB blah blah United Linux blah blah blah whatever (ok, at the very least, Debian's releases are my "gold standard", which I feel are free of commercial "steering").
Another point: On McAfee's site, their advertisement for their GNU/Linux product is peppered with references to "linux". In light of the open-source community's vociferous bounds-checking on Industry threats (GPL violations, shady has-been UNIX businesses, fake OS "shootout" comparisons), I bet the Free Software community could drum up a terrific influence to get the Industry to use the correct its terminology.
Microsoft is just entertaining the latest buzzword. Next year it might as well be kernel checkpointing for uninterrupted failover of windows computing clusters.
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So I see a lot of folks here are wondering if cell could be sampled from living animals--that way, there's no murder, no death. Maybe people could probably feel comfortable with that. However, under Kashrut laws, meat that from a living animal is not kosher.*
Some other folks ask about cloning human meat; that wouldn't be kosher, either, simply because human flesh does not lie in that specific, defined list of Kosher animal species as defined by Jewish law.
No one seems to be addressing the fact that cells will probably still be sampled over and over again. While less animals suffer with cloning meat, slaughtering for the sake of 'cloned meat' sources would probably continue.
- Roey
------------
* It wouldnt'be like rennet since cloned meat is by definition the re-growth of the actual muscle tissue of the sampled host animal.
I think the movie can make a powerful impact with someone like Sigourney Weaver playing the Major, as she's an established icon for powerful women. I hope hope *hope* this film won't feature another sexy but twenty-somethings (like they ones in Terminator 3, Ultra Violet, and Resident Evil) who make up for lack of charisma and character with boobs and lipstick. For Batuo maybe someone from the likes of David Carradine, Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman*.. someone older and grayer, tougher. No clue who would make a good Togusa.
Anyone else here happy that GitS has kept the same Japanese voice actors across all three films and anime series? I sure am. Especially considering the nine-year lapse between the first two films.
- Roey
* I was thinking also of Hugh Laurie, but then, I can see the movie turning out a comedic medical thriller)
Clarification:
Red Car -> ISO body (Judge Doom utters this line in Roger Rabbitt)
Two standards good, one standard better -> reference to Animal Farm
Embrace, extending and extinguish -> Microsoft's handling of the ISO standards-making process
The common thread among all these quotes is how downright sinister they are behind a gentle and seemingly caring facade; they're all working within the system to bring it down from the inside.
- Roey
> If they really want an OOXML "Ceasefire", then they should offer a compromise with the opponents of OOXML.
>Namely: revoke the standard and allow it to continue to be reworked.
Why work on OOXML, though, when a standard like ODF already exists? IMO there's no need for additional baggage like OOXML for those few extra features that ODF lacks, when ODF could be (carefully) amended instead.
Because the next step is to decommission ODF. Read the writing on the wall; you have two standards that overlap, and one company that is willing to push any amount of money to get their way. We might yet see Microsoft "agreeing" with its detractors that one standard is better than two--and then you can logically extrapolate from that what their next move will be.
Another version reads: "Two standards good, One standard better!"
Or perhaps summed up clearest: "Embrace, extend, extinguish."
- Roey
Why should MS "go back to the drawing board" in the first place, instead of just implementing ODF? (though I grant you that's a rhetorical question, since ODF serves to discourage the kinds of lock-in that Microsoft's business model appears to depend on)
- Roey
Ya know, with every third story tagged "whatcanpossiblygowrong", the descriptor quickly starts losing its character. Sure, I can see the humor in applying it to stories about monkeys genetically engineered to fart marshmellows or as a slap back against the hubris in some gene company spokesman's discovery announcement speech, but it's getting overused...
- Roey
don't forget GNOME's Registrar, a concept copied from the Microsoft Windows' Registry...
You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it...
- Roey
The pattern you describe has a name, it's called the "Wheel of Reincarnation". The Jargon File specifically mentions graphics equipment, even:
i on.html.
"[coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. Also known as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Samsara, and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter."
see http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnat
- Roey
So once you make that transaction with your cell phone, what happens next? The Verizon service tries to connect to your TiVo, which may sit inside your home network. How will Verizon access your device, in this case? Your Internet-facing router both NATs packets and blocks ports. If you change the requisite configuration as per Verizon's liking, who's to say that this will not leave your Tivo vulnerable to hack attempts?
I'm sick of this shit. Tivo and Replay and whatever other proprietary PVRs the cableco's sell dictate to YOU what you're allowed to do. You can't skip commercials, transfer video off the internal hard drive (unless it's resolution-crippled), and you probably can't extend the system to play free formats like FLACs, Vorbis, and Theora. Ah well, such is the price of consumers' complacency. Those consumers are the same ones who, a few years up the road from now, will subscribe to Symantec's antivirus for cell phones.
- Roey
Much of uniquely Israeli technology was invented to deal with the unique challenges that the area poses.
Look up Israeli irrigation methods like surface drip irrigation here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_irrigation, which ended up spreading throughout the rest of the world.
As for other areas of innovation... how about medical science:
- Fibrin glue, now used routinely in all surgical procedures to reduce the risk of rebleeding.
- sequencing of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
- more here
security:
- The concept of a stateful firewall, starting with Check Point I (is it even worth it to call anything non-stateful a firewall? If so, then how far could we take things--maybe we could call password prompts 'firewalls' as well)
- airline security as the world knows it
How about the Talmud. Anyone who wants to patent the concept of hypertext can look there for prior art.
But besides 'uniquely Israeli innovations', what does it matter that they be unique? What, you want we should start our inventions from a square wheel on up? Even Newton stressed that he developed his own work on the shoulders of giants.
- Roey
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Browsing charged issues in English is one thing; one can only wonder* what the Arabic pages say.
*or learn the language.
Hi.
Regarding
>Except for all the chemicals the government has rather >arbitrarily decided you aren't allowed to put into your >own body.
and
>And you can't drive without wearing your seatbelt
I've heard it argued that people gettng into trouble as a result of doing stupid things to their bodies does financially stresses the National health care system. We've all heard statistics of how many lives seatbelts have saved since the 40's; how about money?
Less seat belts and more heroin & coke addicts -> higher health care costs -> higher taxes.
- R
I've been waiting for the community to chime in with some suggestions...
I'm also a sysadmin, and I find myself with the same problems in logging and keeping things organized. A couple of issues that I haven't seen any project management app address include:
1) Overlapping projects (i.e. projects which shar resources such as computers or software components) with contextual views. If I want to make a note about the Exchange server's antivirus autoprotect status, I want this particular system (and the note I attached to it) to be visible both to the Exchange Maintenance project AND the Antivirus Maintenance project.
2) Making on-the-fly references. If I add an entry to my DNS server maintenance log regarding changes to Active Directory provisions (_sites, _msdc, etc.) then I'd like to be able to insert a reference to the Active Directory server. If other admins click on the link, it'd take them to the information page for the AD server.
3) Revision history and multi-user awareness. Actually, this is covered by most of them, including Trac.
So basically these requirements boil down to this:
I'm looking to (either get or implement) a Project Management application that lets me define object instances (personal contacts, diary entries, projects, computer networks & components, trouble tickets) and lets me instantiate them and reference them anywhere. Revision history is important, as is multi-user access, the ability to define view filters, and the ability to attach objects to other objects (for example, adding a diary entry to a System object in order to make a work log for that System).
I think that the Wiki approach is simple and elegant, and would not require too much coding.
- Roey
The recent--and constantly improving--development of write-leveling in the Flash firmware and the OS filesystem drivers has made this essentially a non-issue. By distributing repeated writes to different cells, modern Flash possesses a far greater resiliency than that of Flash produced before wear leveling was introduced. For more information, check out the this whitepaper. .55 days versus 49 years for repeated writes to same logical block or sector (remember, with wear leveling enabled, the physical cell you're writing to may be different each time).
I believe it quotes a lifetime of something like
For filesystem-level wear leveling (i.e., filesystems designed for flash memory), check out YAFFS and JFFS2.
For information about wear-leveling in general, see its Wikipedia entry.
- Roey
"In a recent article, John Dvorak trashes [himself] as being, 'one of the dumbest [people] to ever put forth [an opinion about] the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rollingly dumb on the same scale as believing that the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.'
- Roey
Are people in the US and England so naive they actually believe their leaders can kill 10s of thousands of people a year without putting them in serious danger?
I really feel for the dead britishs but I think in this moment more than any other it's time to realize the lenght of the terrible mistake that is the war started by the US and England
Your chronology is out of alignment; 9/11 happened before the Iraq war, not the other way around. Seems like people like you are so intent on bashing America and the Bush administration that their surreptitious alteration of the facts is not below them.
people will want to defend themselves against the aggression, it is normal to do so, does anyone trully thought they wouldn't?
Oh, so Islamists are merely "defending themselves", how civilized. No. Islamism's stated objectives are to wage war with, conquer, and subjugate the West. Islamists are on their own track; to that end, they'll continue plotting and attacking regardless of what America, the UK, Israel or any other Western country/Big Satan/Little Satan does.
- Roey
How many Slashdotters would bother with reading it, do you think?
What's the word to describe this washed-down commercialization of science news that characterizes stories like these, the content of the Discovery Channel and TLC?
- Roey
What exactly is being preserved by making sure at least the mother is real?
What does the mother being "real" have to do with it? For that matter, what is "real"? A real what? Lemme ask you this: how else (other than lineage) would you establish tribal descent? It looks like you're asking a different question about what makes maintaining Judaism as an identity, culture, and religion so important.
The line's genetics are already so diluted from thousands of years of non-Jewish fathers
This is categorically false; see here and here.
that it's probably only 1/1000th original Israeli genes.
Where did you get the 1/1000th figure from? Did you pull it out of thin air? Have you heard it before? Did you compute this number? If so, what were the initial conditions you used in your calculation?
Also, "Israeli" is a nationality a little over fifty years old. "Israelite" or "Ben Israel" (plural, "Bney Israel") is the term used to refer to historical Jews.
So would you consider a baby orphaned from Jewish parents, but raised by atheists, a Jew? yes; the concept of membership in a religion being predicated on the level of belief constitutes an entirely non-Jewish view (evangelical Christian, perhaps but not Jewish).
He is neither practicing nor aware of any of these common cultural values you speak of.
I didn't say membership was predicated on practice. You're mixing these issues again. I said that Judaism is more than just a religion; it encompasses cultural values, too. Inclusion into the Jewish religion is through either matrilineal descent *or* converstion, period.
If you can fuck each other and have babies, you are human, and these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes
Again, you're mixing issues. How does "you are human" have anything to do with the rest of your tirade?
these divisions are bullshit and are meant to keep money and power in various families and tribes.
This is a totally different argument than anything you've said so far; you don't offer any sort of proof for this statement, nor are you stating how it applies to the Jewish identity, religion and culture specifically.
- Roey
Cochran proposes that due to the unusual selection pressures the Ashkenazi faced between 800 and 1600AD certain
Reporting about Jews from a Christian-biased perspective sounds rather unscientific. Wikipedia and Omniglot are tainted with this AD/BC crap all over.
- Roey
Does it strike anyone else as ridiculous that any group of individuals identifies themselves and conglomerates through maternal bloodlines, let alone religion (be it Judiasm or Christianity or Islam)? This arbitrary grouping is absurd to the extreme and is based on some magical fiction passed down for millenia. It's crazy! And it's causing SO MUCH pain for everyone involved! Why?
Several points here:
First off, the concept of Jewish identity tied to the mother exists in part because it is much easier to prove who gave birth to the baby than who made the mother pregnant. Thus the ruling, if the mother is Jewish, the baby is Jewish. Put in better words:
"For one, a child's mother is always known, while the father couldn't be positively identified before modern technology. Also, the Jewish people suffered a long history of oppression, during which Jewish women were sometimes raped by their oppressors. Instead of casting out the woman and the child born of the rape, the Jewish community took them in by considering the child to be Jewish." (source)
Does this clear it up for you? Hopefully this makes it less "arbitrary" (and hey, maybe there is some logic after all to this "magical fiction"!)
Second, different religions do it differently; in Islam it goes by the father. In certain sects of Christianity, a newborn child is not even Christian until they're baptized or go through some other ceremony.
Third, Judaism is more than a religion; it encompasses common cultural values.
All this make a lot of money for the GNU/Linux vendors, who sell their blessing to commercial companies (e.g. "Works With Red Hat 9").
I'd like to see someone support GNU/Linux as a target instead of specific distributions. Blah blah LSB blah blah United Linux blah blah blah whatever (ok, at the very least, Debian's releases are my "gold standard", which I feel are free of commercial "steering").
Another point: On McAfee's site, their advertisement for their GNU/Linux product is peppered with references to "linux". In light of the open-source community's vociferous bounds-checking on Industry threats (GPL violations, shady has-been UNIX businesses, fake OS "shootout" comparisons), I bet the Free Software community could drum up a terrific influence to get the Industry to use the correct its terminology.
- Roey
Microsoft is just entertaining the latest buzzword. Next year it might as well be kernel checkpointing for uninterrupted failover of windows computing clusters.
- Roey