I doubt the loss of a couple billion wouldn't hurt Google too terribly.
But the precedent would be disastrous. It would basically mean any API not specifically released with an open license on day 1 would be unused out of fear of copyright retribution.
Couldn't tell you for sure, but I would think any RDBMS (including Oracle and MySQL) would've had their ancestry in an unlicensed implementation of IBM SQL.
Real laptops already exist if you want that. Chromebooks currently serve a nice niche of cheap laptops with great performance if you don't need local apps. I don't see why it would be intelligent to move away from that.
The only thing my wife needs is a browser (and the occasional casual document editing, which Google Apps can handle). I was strongly considering getting her a Chromebook (specifically the Acer 15) because the performance, battery life and display are quite good for the price, plus it's practically impenetrable to malware, but this news actually wavers me a bit. More stuff ChromeOS has to do means it's slower (keep in mind most Chromebooks have either a smartphone ARM CPU, or the lightweight Intel Celeron), and also it's more prone to malware.
Ten years ago (or maybe a little less than that), Skype wasn't really great, but it "just worked" and it was a widely agreed upon platform for communication (like what ICQ and AIM once were). Nobody I know uses Skype anymore; the video ads, ultra-high latency, and general bugginess has now driven just about everybody to another platform.
It's kind of amazing how artful Microsoft is at destroying things: Skype, Nokia, Lionhead, Groove, Rare. I'm sure Microsoft shills can quote off the top of their head how much more profitable or how much growth have occurred in all the aforementioned since Microsoft bought them, but regular folks know the truth. And the world waits with abated breath to see how they butcher SwiftKey.
I was about five years old or so when I first played Doom. My foremost memory is of trying to convince my older brothers that the BFG was actually an elephant based off of its map sprite (see the above here: http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki... )
Popular works like All Quiet on the Western Front have made every depiction of World War I inevitably something like what the Battle of the Somme was, or the Battle of Caporetto; bitter, miserable wasting away in trenches while swathes of men are destroyed in fruitless attacks on extremely fortified positions. In reality, a lot of the war was high-paced maneuver warfare like the Franco-Prussian War and World War II, especially after tanks were introduced.
If I was using a free-as-in-speech OS, I could take it out myself if I judged it to be a liability. Or at least turn it off. But explain to me how it can be just that Microsoft advertises a certain feature to be in Windows 10, delivers it, and then takes it away after millions of people have paid for it?
Fuck you, Nazi cocksucker. He just told you why he doesn't like LibreOffice (typical gay FOSS name) and no matter how detailed it is you'd claim it still wasn't valid. Many of us ACs have been using Slashdot long before you carved out your first swastika on a university table. We know the Slashdot userbase has a disturbingly pro-FOSS slant. So, when we say LibreOffice sucks dick, which it does, no matter how detailed or descriptive it is, it's likely a shitstain like you or one of your butt-buddies will modbomb it out of spite. Microsoft, nor any other company, gives a flying shit about what people post on Slashdot. It's not as popular as you think it is.
I'll give you one of the reasons I don't like LibbermanOffice, aside from the stupid name. The UI is dated shit. Why? Because it's basically the same one OpenOffice was using. If GIMP has taught us anything, it's that few FOSS applications actually have a decent UI that's being actively developed, because as it turns out people who can code lack usually lack the creativity and style to actually design and implement a UI that doesn't resemble a partially aborted fetus. But, we know it's good enough for you, because it's FOSS.
So, am I a Nazi that sucks cocks, or am I a nonpartisan that sucks specifically Nazi cocks?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're not quite at the stage where you can just take a car off the road, slap on some sensors and some jazz in the steering wheel/pedals, and the car is ready to self-drive. I would imagine each car model has to be optimized for this, and that will take awhile. So in 5 years, we might have self-driving cars coming off the assembly lines, but it's gonna take a lot more than 5 years before that's a sizable percentage of the cars on the road.
I'm sorry, but what if (that's a big "IF" there but bear with me) I bought Windows 10 because I *wanted* this particular feature? Microsoft is just going to "update" it out anyway?
I understand Windows 10 is more of a rolling release than previous versions were, but this is insane. Are they going to "update" out things that I bought from the Windows Store because they weren't terribly popular as well? Imagine if you took your car in for maintenance and they took out your parking camera because nobody used it....
If I use MSOffice, I'm tied to a specific version of Visual Basic for Applications that breaks between the different versions. LibreOffice has a compatibility engine for VBA (works pretty well in my experience but I haven't used it too much), PLUS they offer Java and Python as alternatives. That's a great reason to avoid MS right there.
People who have not used properly managed Outlook+Exchange in a large organization often have no idea how lacking the alternatives are in comparison, Fx for scheduling. I had fairly low opinions of Outlook and all the faults and frustrations I could point to until I changed jobs to an organization using Google Docs. Now I miss Outlook-Exchange so fucking much. Google Docs is not a step back, it is a series of pole vaults back.
I'm sure Red Hat, SUSE, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Canonical all have a Microsoft Exchange server in their back room. It's their dark secret; they don't want anybody to know that nobody can hack together a usable email server except Microsoft.
Look, I'm sure Exchange is the "right" solution for some organizations (I'm not going to surrender much ground there, because any company or government interested in keeping their emails private and secure are insane if they're going to use a closed source email server from a country where any tech company can be served national security letters--but I digress...), but let's not lose our minds here and say that there's no real alternatives.
Another anonymous coward that talks about how great MSOffice is and how LibreOffice just can't keep up, without any specific details to this being the case.
Are you suggesting Microsoft pays people to post to Slashdot to make it pro-Microsoft? They're doing a pretty shitty job if that's the case, don't you think?
Heartbleed was patched. Even if it wasn't, OpenSSL is free and open source, so you could patch it yourself if you had to. On the other hand, how fucked are you if there's a critical bug in Windows or MSOffice and Microsoft says "lol just reboot"?
Just curious, what was the retraining costs when you switched from Office XP to Office 2007/2010 and had to learn the new ribbon and re-write a lot of VBA?
You mean the loss of productivity whenever you have to retrain all your office workers whenever Microsoft has a brilliant new ribbon/metro every other release? Or the loss of productivity when VBA macros lose compatibility and have to be rewritten?
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.
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Go home Larry Ellison, you're drunk.
Oh, and also--as stated above--basically everything POSIX that wasn't licensed from Bell Labs, which would include Oracle Enterprise Linux.
I doubt the loss of a couple billion wouldn't hurt Google too terribly.
But the precedent would be disastrous. It would basically mean any API not specifically released with an open license on day 1 would be unused out of fear of copyright retribution.
Couldn't tell you for sure, but I would think any RDBMS (including Oracle and MySQL) would've had their ancestry in an unlicensed implementation of IBM SQL.
And also Microsoft. Remember that MS-DOS was a renaming of Seattle Computer Products' QDOS, which itself was an API clone of CP/M.
If the jury rules for Oracle, that means Microsoft will owe billions to the estate of Gary Kildall.
Real laptops already exist if you want that. Chromebooks currently serve a nice niche of cheap laptops with great performance if you don't need local apps. I don't see why it would be intelligent to move away from that.
The only thing my wife needs is a browser (and the occasional casual document editing, which Google Apps can handle). I was strongly considering getting her a Chromebook (specifically the Acer 15) because the performance, battery life and display are quite good for the price, plus it's practically impenetrable to malware, but this news actually wavers me a bit. More stuff ChromeOS has to do means it's slower (keep in mind most Chromebooks have either a smartphone ARM CPU, or the lightweight Intel Celeron), and also it's more prone to malware.
Ten years ago (or maybe a little less than that), Skype wasn't really great, but it "just worked" and it was a widely agreed upon platform for communication (like what ICQ and AIM once were). Nobody I know uses Skype anymore; the video ads, ultra-high latency, and general bugginess has now driven just about everybody to another platform.
It's kind of amazing how artful Microsoft is at destroying things: Skype, Nokia, Lionhead, Groove, Rare. I'm sure Microsoft shills can quote off the top of their head how much more profitable or how much growth have occurred in all the aforementioned since Microsoft bought them, but regular folks know the truth. And the world waits with abated breath to see how they butcher SwiftKey.
I was about five years old or so when I first played Doom. My foremost memory is of trying to convince my older brothers that the BFG was actually an elephant based off of its map sprite (see the above here: http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki... )
Popular works like All Quiet on the Western Front have made every depiction of World War I inevitably something like what the Battle of the Somme was, or the Battle of Caporetto; bitter, miserable wasting away in trenches while swathes of men are destroyed in fruitless attacks on extremely fortified positions. In reality, a lot of the war was high-paced maneuver warfare like the Franco-Prussian War and World War II, especially after tanks were introduced.
If I was using a free-as-in-speech OS, I could take it out myself if I judged it to be a liability. Or at least turn it off. But explain to me how it can be just that Microsoft advertises a certain feature to be in Windows 10, delivers it, and then takes it away after millions of people have paid for it?
Fuck you, Nazi cocksucker. He just told you why he doesn't like LibreOffice (typical gay FOSS name) and no matter how detailed it is you'd claim it still wasn't valid. Many of us ACs have been using Slashdot long before you carved out your first swastika on a university table. We know the Slashdot userbase has a disturbingly pro-FOSS slant. So, when we say LibreOffice sucks dick, which it does, no matter how detailed or descriptive it is, it's likely a shitstain like you or one of your butt-buddies will modbomb it out of spite. Microsoft, nor any other company, gives a flying shit about what people post on Slashdot. It's not as popular as you think it is.
I'll give you one of the reasons I don't like LibbermanOffice, aside from the stupid name. The UI is dated shit. Why? Because it's basically the same one OpenOffice was using. If GIMP has taught us anything, it's that few FOSS applications actually have a decent UI that's being actively developed, because as it turns out people who can code lack usually lack the creativity and style to actually design and implement a UI that doesn't resemble a partially aborted fetus. But, we know it's good enough for you, because it's FOSS.
So, am I a Nazi that sucks cocks, or am I a nonpartisan that sucks specifically Nazi cocks?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're not quite at the stage where you can just take a car off the road, slap on some sensors and some jazz in the steering wheel/pedals, and the car is ready to self-drive. I would imagine each car model has to be optimized for this, and that will take awhile. So in 5 years, we might have self-driving cars coming off the assembly lines, but it's gonna take a lot more than 5 years before that's a sizable percentage of the cars on the road.
I'm sorry, but what if (that's a big "IF" there but bear with me) I bought Windows 10 because I *wanted* this particular feature? Microsoft is just going to "update" it out anyway?
I understand Windows 10 is more of a rolling release than previous versions were, but this is insane. Are they going to "update" out things that I bought from the Windows Store because they weren't terribly popular as well? Imagine if you took your car in for maintenance and they took out your parking camera because nobody used it....
If I use MSOffice, I'm tied to a specific version of Visual Basic for Applications that breaks between the different versions. LibreOffice has a compatibility engine for VBA (works pretty well in my experience but I haven't used it too much), PLUS they offer Java and Python as alternatives. That's a great reason to avoid MS right there.
2 is a blessing.
People who have not used properly managed Outlook+Exchange in a large organization often have no idea how lacking the alternatives are in comparison, Fx for scheduling. I had fairly low opinions of Outlook and all the faults and frustrations I could point to until I changed jobs to an organization using Google Docs. Now I miss Outlook-Exchange so fucking much. Google Docs is not a step back, it is a series of pole vaults back.
I'm sure Red Hat, SUSE, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Canonical all have a Microsoft Exchange server in their back room. It's their dark secret; they don't want anybody to know that nobody can hack together a usable email server except Microsoft.
Look, I'm sure Exchange is the "right" solution for some organizations (I'm not going to surrender much ground there, because any company or government interested in keeping their emails private and secure are insane if they're going to use a closed source email server from a country where any tech company can be served national security letters--but I digress...), but let's not lose our minds here and say that there's no real alternatives.
Another anonymous coward that talks about how great MSOffice is and how LibreOffice just can't keep up, without any specific details to this being the case.
Are you suggesting Microsoft pays people to post to Slashdot to make it pro-Microsoft? They're doing a pretty shitty job if that's the case, don't you think?
Couldn't agree more.
Another anonymous coward lauding MSOffice and talking about how LO just doesn't cut it without providing any examples of how this is the case.
Does Microsoft pay you by the hour or by the post?
Heartbleed was patched. Even if it wasn't, OpenSSL is free and open source, so you could patch it yourself if you had to. On the other hand, how fucked are you if there's a critical bug in Windows or MSOffice and Microsoft says "lol just reboot"?
Why don't you report a bug instead of shitposting?
Just curious, what was the retraining costs when you switched from Office XP to Office 2007/2010 and had to learn the new ribbon and re-write a lot of VBA?
1 is a problem with MS Office's proprietary standards.
2 is a blessing.
You mean the loss of productivity whenever you have to retrain all your office workers whenever Microsoft has a brilliant new ribbon/metro every other release? Or the loss of productivity when VBA macros lose compatibility and have to be rewritten?
Anybody that's used LibreOffice recently knows that it's equal or better to MSOffice in just about every respect; the compatibility with OOXML has been particularly good since version 5. But you wouldn't know it from the flood of slashdotters that came in here a minute after the story was posted to talk about how bad LO is, in vague and undescribed ways.