A network computing device from Microsoft? That's not good.
No one will ever force you to buy one. PC's will not suddenly be banned when there finally is an alternative available. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the availability of an alternative even caused the prices to drop, which is always a good thing. If big bad Bill want's to sell a NC, but makes it impossible for non MS software to run on it, his NC will fail to compete with other NC's that do not pose such restrictions. It would make as little sense as making windows for microsoft apps only. Why should you care what a company you boycott sells to other people?
Think about it, Microsoft could create a band called "The Slashdot," get published by Sony and have/. wiped off the map.
The only one sony could sue would be the band "The Slashdot", which signed the contract. Imagine your name is Bob, and you promise your boss never to use that name without her consent, that doesn't mean all the other Bobs broke a promise to your boss.
oh yes. We own the url (who the heck is interNIC, screw them) and so no more mp3.
Uhm, no. I meant they probably hope they can still make some money off music distributed via the internet, if the artists want to advertise/provide it on a webpage with a URL that resembles their name. Stopping the mp3 format would be like stoppinf the use of long divisions, so the next best thing for a record company would be to find ways to squeeze some money out of the mp3 format too.
I think by owning their artists websites, they hope to be less severely hit than other record companies if internet/mp3 gradually make record companies obsolete like some people predict. Frank zappa suggested an idea like this in his (great, hilarious, informative fun even if you can't stand zappa) autobiography. He didn't like record companies at all, and hoped artists would one day be able to distribute their own music via the internet. Sadly he died before mp3, or he might have been the first famous artist to release albums on internet...
No no no, light has no mass. Therefor Newtonian fysics predicts that light should tot be affected by a mass. Relativistic physics does predict that radiation is affected ("It's easy once you understand that space-time is curved" - DeeDee, in Dexter's nightmare). This fact was used as once of the first observations that supported Einstein's theory: during an eclips, stars that were near the sun, could be observed to be slightly out of place, indicating that the mass of the sun had curved the path of the light between earth and those stars a little.
I agree with you that the question is "why does Compaq think this will sell hardware?", and in my opinion this is why:
My point was that I think your assumption that "This is obviously a marketing move in order to get themselves inbed with the OSS crowd. It makes no sense to target the "I'll spend $500 on a compiler" crowd on linux" is wrong. I don't imagine the OSS crowd is even remotely interested in a commercial fortran compiler, or any commercial compiler for that matter, and that I think this move is ultimately intended to sell more Alpha boxes (as well as the compiler suite) to the people who now use Intel based PC's with linux and a commercial compiler suite for numbercrunching, and not to make 'the OSS crowd' love Compaq.
This is obviously a marketing move in order to get themselves inbed with the OSS crowd
You don't get it. Not everyone uses an open source OS out of general principle. A lot of linux PC's are used as number crunchers in universities (with commercial compilers), because a free OS means you buy one cheap copy, that can be installed on all machines you have without restrictions, instead of buying a seperate expensive license for each machine with a lot of restrictions. This can save a fortune, and make a lot of things possible with a limited budget. By porting their commercial compiler suite to Alpha linux, Compaq obviously makes their low end Alpha boxes a more interesting option for this segment of the market.
Alpha's are superbly suitable for numbercrunching. When you are performing a series of calculations that takes say 100 days, and a comercial compiler can make your code 15% faster, you save two weeks! In that case the decision is easily made.
Well, Apple is a hardware vendor. I wouln't be surprised if the OS actually costs them money. After all, in the market they were targetting, they couldn't charge thousands of dollars per licence like many other providers of a single vendor solution seem to do.
That rumour was started right here on/. iirc. So far the evidence seems to be a sighting of a Transmeta logo at an Amiga presentation, and the fact that one of Transmeta's founders is known to know a lot about chips...
If they hadn't hired Linus, I'm sure the name would not even have been mentioned yet on/.
Imnsho it would be a good idea to stop mentioning it until there is some real news.
And the next time they're reading elevated neutrino levels or quantum fluctuations, I demand to know how they do it.
And about those transporters: why hasn't the issue of morality regarding these devices ever been raised? Essentially every time someone is transported, he/she is murdered, disintegrated on the spot, and with the energy released in your destruction, an identical copy of you is made elsewhere. It's like "I didn't really murder him, your honor, because I cloned him in the process!"
I wonder if there's a market for open business plan makers. (Electronic door to door market guru?). I wonder if he has a business plan for IBM, MS, Compaq and Sun handy too... In fact, I could use a business plan myself ---
For the desktop user the advantage of FreeBSD is that it is more 'consistent', easier to install, configure and maintain than any distribution of Linux I know, but the differences are probably big enough to switch, if you have a system that already does what you want it to.
Read what Daemon news has to say about this issue, also chech the back issues. ---
First of all, Linux seems to be pushing the commercial brands of unix out of the x86 market. SCO is in trouble, and I wouldn't be surprised if Sun stops supporting Solaris86. Linux does not seem to have much effect at all on the sales of Windows NT (correct me if I'm wrong, and please include some links inbewteen your insults to back it up).
Besides that, the avalanche of media attention Linux has been getting lately, in combination with the Halloween document (am I the only one who suspects MS may have leaked this to ESR on purpose?) must be greeted with cheers by a certain company that is currently in court trying to convince the US government that it does not have a stable and untouchable monopoly in the OS market. Since none of that company's direct competitors seem to be getting any richer thanks to Linux, it is probably not seen as a real threat...
Of the available unix variants, Linux seems to be one of the 'strangest', least standard (and perhaps least compatible?).
If Linux really does unite the unix world by simply replacing all others, I very much doubt that regular users of HP-UX, Digital Unix (erm..), IRIX, AIX, Solaris etc will see this as an improvement.
SCO, IBM, Sun, HP, SGI and others must be supporting Linux -one of their own potential competitors- for a reason. My guess is they are so afraid of Win2k-on-Merced, that they will support anything thay may slow win NT even little, and are quite happy with the successful FUD campain against NT by the Linux community.
Telling everyone that something good (linux) is actually the very best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe may eventually make it look like a disappointment. ---
Glory? Credit? Those don't buy a new mercedes. Surely DEC got proper credit in the form of money for their work? ---
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Why should you care what a company you boycott sells to other people?
Think about it, Microsoft could create a band called "The Slashdot," get published by Sony and have /. wiped off the map.
The only one sony could sue would be the band "The Slashdot", which signed the contract. Imagine your name is Bob, and you promise your boss never to use that name without her consent, that doesn't mean all the other Bobs broke a promise to your boss.
Do you crash your instruments onstage?
oh yes. We own the url (who the heck is interNIC, screw them) and so no more mp3.
Uhm, no. I meant they probably hope they can still make some money off music distributed via the internet, if the artists want to advertise/provide it on a webpage with a URL that resembles their name. Stopping the mp3 format would be like stoppinf the use of long divisions, so the next best thing for a record company would be to find ways to squeeze some money out of the mp3 format too.
I think by owning their artists websites, they hope to be less severely hit than other record companies if internet/mp3 gradually make record companies obsolete like some people predict.
Frank zappa suggested an idea like this in his (great, hilarious, informative fun even if you can't stand zappa) autobiography. He didn't like record companies at all, and hoped artists would one day be able to distribute their own music via the internet. Sadly he died before mp3, or he might have been the first famous artist to release albums on internet...
I wonder if the name 'intenet' has been trademarked yet...
Or the words 'computer', 'software' or phrases like 'free beer'.
No no no, light has no mass. Therefor Newtonian fysics predicts that light should tot be affected by a mass. Relativistic physics does predict that radiation is affected ("It's easy once you understand that space-time is curved" - DeeDee, in Dexter's nightmare). This fact was used as once of the first observations that supported Einstein's theory: during an eclips, stars that were near the sun, could be observed to be slightly out of place, indicating that the mass of the sun had curved the path of the light between earth and those stars a little.
I agree with you that the question is "why does Compaq think this will sell hardware?", and in my opinion this is why:
My point was that I think your assumption that "This is obviously a marketing move in order to get themselves inbed with the OSS crowd. It makes no sense to target the "I'll spend $500 on a compiler" crowd on linux" is wrong. I don't imagine the OSS crowd is even remotely interested in a commercial fortran compiler, or any commercial compiler for that matter, and that I think this move is ultimately intended to sell more Alpha boxes (as well as the compiler suite) to the people who now use Intel based PC's with linux and a commercial compiler suite for numbercrunching, and not to make 'the OSS crowd' love Compaq.
I assume they are using GNU libc as the C library for their compiler.
I don't think so.
This is obviously a marketing move in order to get themselves inbed with the OSS crowd
You don't get it. Not everyone uses an open source OS out of general principle. A lot of linux PC's are used as number crunchers in universities (with commercial compilers), because a free OS means you buy one cheap copy, that can be installed on all machines you have without restrictions, instead of buying a seperate expensive license for each machine with a lot of restrictions. This can save a fortune, and make a lot of things possible with a limited budget. By porting their commercial compiler suite to Alpha linux, Compaq obviously makes their low end Alpha boxes a more interesting option for this segment of the market.
Alpha's are superbly suitable for numbercrunching. When you are performing a series of calculations that takes say 100 days, and a comercial compiler can make your code 15% faster, you save two weeks! In that case the decision is easily made.
Well, Apple is a hardware vendor. I wouln't be surprised if the OS actually costs them money. After all, in the market they were targetting, they couldn't charge thousands of dollars per licence like many other providers of a single vendor solution seem to do.
That rumour was started right here on /. iirc. So far the evidence seems to be a sighting of a Transmeta logo at an Amiga presentation, and the fact that one of Transmeta's founders is known to know a lot about chips...
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If they hadn't hired Linus, I'm sure the name would not even have been mentioned yet on
Imnsho it would be a good idea to stop mentioning it until there is some real news.
Yeah!
And the next time they're reading elevated neutrino levels or quantum fluctuations, I demand to know how they do it.
And about those transporters: why hasn't the issue of morality regarding these devices ever been raised? Essentially every time someone is transported, he/she is murdered, disintegrated on the spot, and with the energy released in your destruction, an identical copy of you is made elsewhere. It's like "I didn't really murder him, your honor, because I cloned him in the process!"
I wish my arms were long enought to scratch that nasty itch right between my shoulders.
I require that my levers were long enought for deletion, the bad to the right between my shoulders itch.
Hmm... Altavista appears to be down
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I have a feeling www.panix.com will be going down long before altavista is
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Oi! You're that bloke who sold me Luxembourg the other day! I'll get you for that
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I wonder if there's a market for open business plan makers. (Electronic door to door market guru?). I wonder if he has a business plan for IBM, MS, Compaq and Sun handy too...
In fact, I could use a business plan myself
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Maybe he wasn't destroying evidence, he just had some partially disassembled machines in his house, like most of us probably have.
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For the desktop user the advantage of FreeBSD is that it is more 'consistent', easier to install, configure and maintain than any distribution of Linux I know, but the differences are probably big enough to switch, if you have a system that already does what you want it to.
Read what Daemon news has to say about this issue, also chech the back issues.
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May Linux be harming the 'unification' of unix?
First of all, Linux seems to be pushing the commercial brands of unix out of the x86 market. SCO is in trouble, and I wouldn't be surprised if Sun stops supporting Solaris86. Linux does not seem to have much effect at all on the sales of Windows NT (correct me if I'm wrong, and please include some links inbewteen your insults to back it up).
Besides that, the avalanche of media attention Linux has been getting lately, in combination with the Halloween document (am I the only one who suspects MS may have leaked this to ESR on purpose?) must be greeted with cheers by a certain company that is currently in court trying to convince the US government that it does not have a stable and untouchable monopoly in the OS market. Since none of that company's direct competitors seem to be getting any richer thanks to Linux, it is probably not seen as a real threat...
Of the available unix variants, Linux seems to be one of the 'strangest', least standard (and perhaps least compatible?).
If Linux really does unite the unix world by simply replacing all others, I very much doubt that regular users of HP-UX, Digital Unix (erm..), IRIX, AIX, Solaris etc will see this as an improvement.
SCO, IBM, Sun, HP, SGI and others must be supporting Linux -one of their own potential competitors- for a reason. My guess is they are so afraid of Win2k-on-Merced, that they will support anything thay may slow win NT even little, and are quite happy with the successful FUD campain against NT by the Linux community.
Telling everyone that something good (linux) is actually the very best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe may eventually make it look like a disappointment.
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That's pretty amazing. Not just the fact that he manages to do it, but also that he has the confidence to even try it!
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Glory? Credit? Those don't buy a new mercedes. Surely DEC got proper credit in the form of money for their work?
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I never understood why space flight isn't commercially sponsored yet. (or is it?) I'm sure certain companies would pay a fortune to be the first softdrink on mars, and apparently exploring the surface of mars with a little robot costs about the same as a major Hollywood production...
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