OK, nice points from a foreign country, now let me explain this to you.
I live in Spain ans I work on a internet tech company.
1- Living here in Spain is as expensive as living in usual places in the US, but far more cheap than living in NY or in SF.
2- Most of the companies here doesn't permit siesta, that's a wonderful image created in foreign countries by people of the south of Spain, in big cities (like Madrid or Barcelona) people get 1 hour to eat, 2 hours as maximum (depending on the company policy) and in this time you cannot do siesta
3- This tech people have gone to unemployment and they have offers to go to another companies, but they are in their right to protest because the company that went to bankrupcy is owned by a country company (Telefonica), and they don't want to pay the pendent wages, that's quite miserable from the government and Telefonica (considering that telefonica is miserable per se).
4- Get off your image of Spain, come here and try to do some work, you'll get amused.
That are my 0.02 Euros =P
Maybe is the lack of interest of the Linux community for maintaining a decent Sparc version, maybe is the will from Sun to keep they workstations loyal to Solaris, but we've had tons of problems with Linux on Sparc and we had to switch them to Solaris because we couldn't afford to have machines that get a kernel panic every week.
Definitively, there's a long path for Linux to run on this matter, all the advances that exist on the Intel platform are quite good and they make Linux a great solution for Intel machines, but not all the server market is Intel.
And what happens if you're a Metallica fan that have buyed ALL their albums, like me, I've shared some of them into Napster and I've been banned by Napster this morning. I have the prove that I hold all the Metallica albums for legal, then I cannot copy them to anyone or to any kind of media? That's the way to keep out new fans coming in, since they're banning the ways of sharing their music they're closing their market, since (I'm talking IMHO) every group that I've liked, heard about on the Internet or whatsoever I've finally buyed their albums to support future productions of that groups. I hope that Metallica doesn't release a new album since I'll not buy them anymore.
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OK, nice points from a foreign country, now let me explain this to you.
I live in Spain ans I work on a internet tech company.
1- Living here in Spain is as expensive as living in usual places in the US, but far more cheap than living in NY or in SF.
2- Most of the companies here doesn't permit siesta, that's a wonderful image created in foreign countries by people of the south of Spain, in big cities (like Madrid or Barcelona) people get 1 hour to eat, 2 hours as maximum (depending on the company policy) and in this time you cannot do siesta
3- This tech people have gone to unemployment and they have offers to go to another companies, but they are in their right to protest because the company that went to bankrupcy is owned by a country company (Telefonica), and they don't want to pay the pendent wages, that's quite miserable from the government and Telefonica (considering that telefonica is miserable per se).
4- Get off your image of Spain, come here and try to do some work, you'll get amused.
That are my 0.02 Euros =P
Maybe is the lack of interest of the Linux community for maintaining a decent Sparc version, maybe is the will from Sun to keep they workstations loyal to Solaris, but we've had tons of problems with Linux on Sparc and we had to switch them to Solaris because we couldn't afford to have machines that get a kernel panic every week.
:)
Definitively, there's a long path for Linux to run on this matter, all the advances that exist on the Intel platform are quite good and they make Linux a great solution for Intel machines, but not all the server market is Intel.
There are my $0.02
And what happens if you're a Metallica fan that have buyed ALL their albums, like me, I've shared some of them into Napster and I've been banned by Napster this morning.
I have the prove that I hold all the Metallica albums for legal, then I cannot copy them to anyone or to any kind of media?
That's the way to keep out new fans coming in, since they're banning the ways of sharing their music they're closing their market, since (I'm talking IMHO) every group that I've liked, heard about on the Internet or whatsoever I've finally buyed their albums to support future productions of that groups.
I hope that Metallica doesn't release a new album since I'll not buy them anymore.
The only movie that I think is near from his epoch's reality is WarGames, it's quite good and it shows a very nice position of hacking/cracking.