I think things went to hell when the Personnel department became Human Resources. I'd like to think that I mean more to my company than an envelope or a PC, but my company begs to differ.
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The Matrix, although I'm too drunk to bother remembering the character's name.
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I believe the standard approach in the MS world is for MS to blame the hardware vendor and the hardware vendor to blame MS.
But in the case of the OSS model you could just employ people to fix the problem rather than spending 2 years in court trying to prove fault with an entity that can probably afford as good, if not, better lawyers than you.
... seriously, if all you people are serious about the GPL (I'll take a neutral stance on the GPL itself), for God's sakes, get a real organization together to handle these things, so that there's always someone to turn to when there is a GPL violation. You know, some professional and legal experts to help the cause out.
Just because they're very talented at keeping PHBs happy doesn't mean that they can write decent software. In fact, from what I've seen in IT in general, the 2 seem to be mutually exclusive (of course we can produce a fully-working billing system in only 3 months, slurp, slurp).
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't be able to make backups of something I have paid for. The book analogy isn't valid. A scratch on the surface of a book isn't sufficient to ruin it. I don't expect publishers to make it easier for me, I expect them not to put unnecessary obstacles in my way when I'm exercising my right to protect my investment in my property. I'm not a pirate, and I resent a bunch of sharks from a foreign country trying to tell me that I am.
It isn't theft either. Theft is when someone is illegally deprived of their property. Microsoft still has Windows even if everyone on the planet installs from warez CDs. License violation, yes, theft, no.
Well that sounds a bit crappy. You pay for 500 Windows NT licenses. A new release of software obsoletes your PCs and you upgrade them. Do you then have to pay again for each copy of NT even though the old machines are being dumped? Surely not.
They're also unpopular because they have no sense of humour. I'm a Brit and I thought that the post above mine was funny, because it was saying that the US government using open source would hurt the US software industry, and so shouldn't do it. So I cracked a joke, using the old troll 'Linux is communist' as inspiration.
Coca Cola threatened to sue Oasis because their song 'Shakermaker' sounds quite a bit like 'I'd like to teach the world to sing', meaning that Oasis had to change some of the lyrics. Record companies have been suing people for decades - it's second nature to them.
This is a little arbitrary, but I suppose it would be something that you would still want to listen to in 30 years. I doubt the current Britney/N'Sync fans will do anything but cringe in 30 years when they hear one of their songs.
Which is why far too many software projects are, not to put too fine a point on it, crap. It's not the users that are pushing for quick releases, it's the management, and they almost never listen to the people writing the stuff, because they are jockeying for political advantage. Developers don't help themselves either, by not writing decent code and meaningful comments. But it needs the will from both sides to overcome this problem, and there's only one place out of the 8 that I've worked at that where there was that will.
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Have a look at this. It might be what you're looking for.
'Welcome to planet Earth. A subsidary of Microsoft.'
Heh. I remember hearing that joke 10 years ago, only it was IBM, not Microsoft. The more things change the more they stay the same.
What did you expect? 'Oh yes, GNOME and KDE suck, Windows 2000 rocks'? I haven't had any problems, but if you have then post to a Linux newsgroup and see if anyone else has had the same problem. Don't come on here with an obvious troll and then complain when someone calls you on it.
If Windows is easy to use, why do I spend so much time helping people to use it. Windows ease of use is a myth, Windows has to be learned the same as driving a car has to be learned, it's not something that everyone is born knowing. It's just that Windows is familiar (and it made me smile to see that you prefer to set your Win32 so-called intuitive desktop to act like a Win16 one), which is not the same as ease-of-use.
Since neither GNOME or KDE offer a significant learning curve over Windows, I doubt it will be any more of a problem than Windows is at the moment (and quite probably less, given that Windows 9x rarely gives out any useful reasons why it failed).
I'm still waiting for my first KDE crash since I upgraded to 1.1.2 back in about Nov '99, but I couldn't get Windows 2000 to work on the same PC. It blue-screened every time I booted after thrashing the hard disk for about 5 minutes. I eventually canned it in favour of Windows 98 (after trying to reinstall it) which doesn't really cause any problems while I'm watching DVDs on it. YMMV of course.
No scientist was a poor kid from the ghetto, being offered an easy path to riches by a smooth-talking A&R man - 'if you just sign this bit of paper, just a formality you understand'.
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I think things went to hell when the Personnel department became Human Resources. I'd like to think that I mean more to my company than an envelope or a PC, but my company begs to differ.
The Matrix, although I'm too drunk to bother remembering the character's name.
I believe the standard approach in the MS world is for MS to blame the hardware vendor and the hardware vendor to blame MS. But in the case of the OSS model you could just employ people to fix the problem rather than spending 2 years in court trying to prove fault with an entity that can probably afford as good, if not, better lawyers than you.
That would be the Free Software Foundation.
Just because they're very talented at keeping PHBs happy doesn't mean that they can write decent software. In fact, from what I've seen in IT in general, the 2 seem to be mutually exclusive (of course we can produce a fully-working billing system in only 3 months, slurp, slurp).
I think Microsoft, Sun, IBM and Accenture (Andersen Consulting) would be very surprised to learn that you can't make money from support.
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't be able to make backups of something I have paid for. The book analogy isn't valid. A scratch on the surface of a book isn't sufficient to ruin it. I don't expect publishers to make it easier for me, I expect them not to put unnecessary obstacles in my way when I'm exercising my right to protect my investment in my property. I'm not a pirate, and I resent a bunch of sharks from a foreign country trying to tell me that I am.
It isn't theft either. Theft is when someone is illegally deprived of their property. Microsoft still has Windows even if everyone on the planet installs from warez CDs. License violation, yes, theft, no.
Well that sounds a bit crappy. You pay for 500 Windows NT licenses. A new release of software obsoletes your PCs and you upgrade them. Do you then have to pay again for each copy of NT even though the old machines are being dumped? Surely not.
They're also unpopular because they have no sense of humour. I'm a Brit and I thought that the post above mine was funny, because it was saying that the US government using open source would hurt the US software industry, and so shouldn't do it. So I cracked a joke, using the old troll 'Linux is communist' as inspiration.
Left or right, dictatorships always try to pretend that they are there through the will of the people.
And how good do you think Windows 2000 would be if Linux wasn't snapping at their heels?
Coca Cola threatened to sue Oasis because their song 'Shakermaker' sounds quite a bit like 'I'd like to teach the world to sing', meaning that Oasis had to change some of the lyrics. Record companies have been suing people for decades - it's second nature to them.
This is a little arbitrary, but I suppose it would be something that you would still want to listen to in 30 years. I doubt the current Britney/N'Sync fans will do anything but cringe in 30 years when they hear one of their songs.
So what you're saying is that the US government should be funding the software industry. Sounds a bit communist to me.
That would be Adabas.
Which is why far too many software projects are, not to put too fine a point on it, crap. It's not the users that are pushing for quick releases, it's the management, and they almost never listen to the people writing the stuff, because they are jockeying for political advantage. Developers don't help themselves either, by not writing decent code and meaningful comments. But it needs the will from both sides to overcome this problem, and there's only one place out of the 8 that I've worked at that where there was that will.
Have a look at this. It might be what you're looking for.
Rouge computers? Is that the latest iMac colour?
'Welcome to planet Earth. A subsidary of Microsoft.' Heh. I remember hearing that joke 10 years ago, only it was IBM, not Microsoft. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Mandrake installed as a development workstation should suit you just fine.
What did you expect? 'Oh yes, GNOME and KDE suck, Windows 2000 rocks'? I haven't had any problems, but if you have then post to a Linux newsgroup and see if anyone else has had the same problem. Don't come on here with an obvious troll and then complain when someone calls you on it.
If Windows is easy to use, why do I spend so much time helping people to use it. Windows ease of use is a myth, Windows has to be learned the same as driving a car has to be learned, it's not something that everyone is born knowing. It's just that Windows is familiar (and it made me smile to see that you prefer to set your Win32 so-called intuitive desktop to act like a Win16 one), which is not the same as ease-of-use. Since neither GNOME or KDE offer a significant learning curve over Windows, I doubt it will be any more of a problem than Windows is at the moment (and quite probably less, given that Windows 9x rarely gives out any useful reasons why it failed).
I'm still waiting for my first KDE crash since I upgraded to 1.1.2 back in about Nov '99, but I couldn't get Windows 2000 to work on the same PC. It blue-screened every time I booted after thrashing the hard disk for about 5 minutes. I eventually canned it in favour of Windows 98 (after trying to reinstall it) which doesn't really cause any problems while I'm watching DVDs on it. YMMV of course.
No scientist was a poor kid from the ghetto, being offered an easy path to riches by a smooth-talking A&R man - 'if you just sign this bit of paper, just a formality you understand'.