Re:...I thought open source was bad for business??
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The point is not in how rich Red Hat gets, but in that Microsoft blasts the GPL and Open Source as "bad business models" and "non-profitable" which Red Hat has now proven isn't true. Granted, they barely standing on the line and could fall either way, but still impressive netherless.
...I thought open source was bad for business???
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Congratulations to Red Hat... they've done alot for the community. But more importantly... this shows that... linux can be profitable, if not as a product than for customer support, service for that product. Haha... and Micro$oft says GPL and Open Source are bad business models. This just proves them wrong (again).
Oh and the reason you have a -1 and are considered a troll by/. is because what you post for the most part makes no sense in context to the topic (and yes i checked)
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Haha, I'm surprised Microsoft didn't slap a disclaimer on this: "Opinions expressed are those of researchers and do not express the views of Microsoft"... haha...
Ok i know anytime the words Microsoft and GPL are combined anywhere someones going to send it to/., but come on this is getting rediculous. The server is GPL not because Microsoft GPL'ed it, but because the original creator did. Microsoft has no choice but to comply with the GPL otherwise risking copyright infringement. Haha, it is nice to know that even though Microsoft may not like the GPL at least it respects its legality and bounds. Although I'm more of the opinion that this is more the decision of the researchers than out of necessity than microsoft.
Now that IBM has it's own license, I wonder as an IBM employee if the ideas I create as such are my own, or still belong to ibm. And if they still belong to ibm, can i just get hold of my source and re-distribute it as my own?? hmm...
Trust me, I know all about sony... (wasn't it just about 4 years ago that they didn't even have a gaming console) so i know what kind of clout they carry. However, i was making my point that the xbox isn't going to get its ass kicked based on microsofts history of arriving at the party late.
I believe that micro$oft has a secret weapon that is very obvious but that we're all forgetting: we are talking about micro$oft here. Micro$oft, the king of poor code, rip offs and if anything else incredible at comebacks. Micro$oft may never be the innovators they say they are (gui, internet, etc...) however when they want to do something (such as become the most widely used OS or browser) they have the ambition and money to throw every thing into it and regain ground in a hurry. I personally will buy the x-box once it comes out because i know for a fact that micro$oft is not going to burn out like sega did with the dreamcast... they haven't yet and i don't expect them to anytime soon. (Also, i've heard that sega has already reached an agreement with micro$oft to do game development for them).
now... with all the recent developments in the netbsd port to dreamcast i was thinking of doing a linux port when then the x box comes out this fall (pre-order this summer, thinking of calling it xlinux). This is completely different then the dreamcast port, which as some people have posted on slashdot seems a little well... pointless. But think about the possiblities of the xbox... where talking a 733 mhtz processor with 64 meg ram and a 8-10 gig harddrive, not to mention its specially designed video card and dvd player. We're not talking a game console here people, we're talking a computer. And at that a very cheap computer (last i heard x-box was going to be around $300, as microsoft takes a $200 hit per box that they'll write off on their taxes), so it makes alot of sense to get something useful on it (as opposed to whatever version of windows they're going to put on it... windows gc??? hell you'll probably be able to dual boot it with that harddrive...) like linux. Of course, if someone could build an xbox game player into xlinux...;-).
Look i don't want to take anything away from this competition but what is the point of manipulating you page to be less than a certain size. I'm all for small pages, without stupid graphics, java applets, flash, etc... but this seems more like a gimmick than anything else. As someone said before, if this was the 5k & useful poll then maybe it would mean something. (Hell, i know hundreds of sites that are less than 5k... too bad they're all crap:-) )
the little animated office assistant was a good idea, however... it was annoying as hell... never really helped you and if anything was just something that distracted you from work (either by trying to get the little bastard to give you info or by just playing with it). I've done alot of reading on AI and it seems as if the next generation of help could and should be alittle smarter (ie: makes sure you don't make the same mistake alot, watches your tendencies, etc... basically it should have learning capabilities). The last generation was alright, but i hope the next will be better (then again this is microsoft:-) - how about a little miniature Bill Gates that comes out and does your tech support and then blames Blue Screens on you)
Linux has really come a long way (bsd too, anything that runs KDE... don't wanna offend anyone)... to the point where it is becoming almost indistinguishable from windows. Until recently, what was it that made windows superior (frankly people, we can go on forever about linux being better than windows but more people still use windows) was the fact that it played games and contained home/office application packages that squashed damn near everything else. Now with these new packages, it seems that maybe KDE/Linux may finally be able to put linux a step closer from become THE superior operating system of the future.
Back in the early days of dvd, existed Divx (not to be confused with divx:-) which was more or less a movie rental in which you paid for the movie and never returned it. However you could update your plan from a say 48 hours to 2 weeks, to unlimited viewing depending on how much you pay. This seems to be similiar to the current software subscription models being set up, in which you pay for probably a time frame, and then pay more for an extension to that. Now, the question is what happens to that software when a company goes out of business and for that, I think we can draw a pretty clear picture from what happened to divx. When divx ended, the first thing they did was offer a $100 rebate (which doesn't really fit into the current issue but i'm geting there). The next thing they did was to NOT ALLOW anyone to lengthen the time frame for watching their movies, yet allowed them to finish off what they currently had paid for. Now for the software subscription method I don't see any reason why this would be different, in that when the company folds do to contract they must honor their customers purchase. When the contract expires they don't renew it. The customer goes and finds some other software to fill their needs and the world moves on. (Personal Note: I'm up for change, but I really don't see any point of this... I mean if you want to move things to the internet then just use credit card and sell software Whole... none of this microsoft release and patch crap)
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The point is not in how rich Red Hat gets, but in that Microsoft blasts the GPL and Open Source as "bad business models" and "non-profitable" which Red Hat has now proven isn't true. Granted, they barely standing on the line and could fall either way, but still impressive netherless.
Congratulations to Red Hat... they've done alot for the community. But more importantly... this shows that... linux can be profitable, if not as a product than for customer support, service for that product. Haha... and Micro$oft says GPL and Open Source are bad business models. This just proves them wrong (again).
Oh and the reason you have a -1 and are considered a troll by /. is because what you post for the most part makes no sense in context to the topic (and yes i checked)
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as if /. was the measure of all intelligence
Haha, I'm surprised Microsoft didn't slap a disclaimer on this: "Opinions expressed are those of researchers and do not express the views of Microsoft"... haha ...
Ok i know anytime the words Microsoft and GPL are combined anywhere someones going to send it to /., but come on this is getting rediculous. The server is GPL not because Microsoft GPL'ed it, but because the original creator did. Microsoft has no choice but to comply with the GPL otherwise risking copyright infringement. Haha, it is nice to know that even though Microsoft may not like the GPL at least it respects its legality and bounds. Although I'm more of the opinion that this is more the decision of the researchers than out of necessity than microsoft.
Now that IBM has it's own license, I wonder as an IBM employee if the ideas I create as such are my own, or still belong to ibm. And if they still belong to ibm, can i just get hold of my source and re-distribute it as my own?? hmm...
Trust me, I know all about sony... (wasn't it just about 4 years ago that they didn't even have a gaming console) so i know what kind of clout they carry. However, i was making my point that the xbox isn't going to get its ass kicked based on microsofts history of arriving at the party late.
I believe that micro$oft has a secret weapon that is very obvious but that we're all forgetting: we are talking about micro$oft here. Micro$oft, the king of poor code, rip offs and if anything else incredible at comebacks. Micro$oft may never be the innovators they say they are (gui, internet, etc...) however when they want to do something (such as become the most widely used OS or browser) they have the ambition and money to throw every thing into it and regain ground in a hurry. I personally will buy the x-box once it comes out because i know for a fact that micro$oft is not going to burn out like sega did with the dreamcast... they haven't yet and i don't expect them to anytime soon. (Also, i've heard that sega has already reached an agreement with micro$oft to do game development for them).
now... with all the recent developments in the netbsd port to dreamcast i was thinking of doing a linux port when then the x box comes out this fall (pre-order this summer, thinking of calling it xlinux). This is completely different then the dreamcast port, which as some people have posted on slashdot seems a little well... pointless. But think about the possiblities of the xbox... where talking a 733 mhtz processor with 64 meg ram and a 8-10 gig harddrive, not to mention its specially designed video card and dvd player. We're not talking a game console here people, we're talking a computer. And at that a very cheap computer (last i heard x-box was going to be around $300, as microsoft takes a $200 hit per box that they'll write off on their taxes), so it makes alot of sense to get something useful on it (as opposed to whatever version of windows they're going to put on it... windows gc??? hell you'll probably be able to dual boot it with that harddrive...) like linux. Of course, if someone could build an xbox game player into xlinux... ;-).
Look i don't want to take anything away from this competition but what is the point of manipulating you page to be less than a certain size. I'm all for small pages, without stupid graphics, java applets, flash, etc... but this seems more like a gimmick than anything else. As someone said before, if this was the 5k & useful poll then maybe it would mean something. (Hell, i know hundreds of sites that are less than 5k... too bad they're all crap :-) )
thanx :-)
the little animated office assistant was a good idea, however... it was annoying as hell... never really helped you and if anything was just something that distracted you from work (either by trying to get the little bastard to give you info or by just playing with it). I've done alot of reading on AI and it seems as if the next generation of help could and should be alittle smarter (ie: makes sure you don't make the same mistake alot, watches your tendencies, etc... basically it should have learning capabilities). The last generation was alright, but i hope the next will be better (then again this is microsoft :-) - how about a little miniature Bill Gates that comes out and does your tech support and then blames Blue Screens on you)
Linux has really come a long way (bsd too, anything that runs KDE... don't wanna offend anyone)... to the point where it is becoming almost indistinguishable from windows. Until recently, what was it that made windows superior (frankly people, we can go on forever about linux being better than windows but more people still use windows) was the fact that it played games and contained home/office application packages that squashed damn near everything else. Now with these new packages, it seems that maybe KDE/Linux may finally be able to put linux a step closer from become THE superior operating system of the future.
Back in the early days of dvd, existed Divx (not to be confused with divx :-) which was more or less a movie rental in which you paid for the movie and never returned it. However you could update your plan from a say 48 hours to 2 weeks, to unlimited viewing depending on how much you pay. This seems to be similiar to the current software subscription models being set up, in which you pay for probably a time frame, and then pay more for an extension to that. Now, the question is what happens to that software when a company goes out of business and for that, I think we can draw a pretty clear picture from what happened to divx. When divx ended, the first thing they did was offer a $100 rebate (which doesn't really fit into the current issue but i'm geting there). The next thing they did was to NOT ALLOW anyone to lengthen the time frame for watching their movies, yet allowed them to finish off what they currently had paid for. Now for the software subscription method I don't see any reason why this would be different, in that when the company folds do to contract they must honor their customers purchase. When the contract expires they don't renew it. The customer goes and finds some other software to fill their needs and the world moves on. (Personal Note: I'm up for change, but I really don't see any point of this... I mean if you want to move things to the internet then just use credit card and sell software Whole... none of this microsoft release and patch crap)