No, I don't mean any of the previous posters. I mean that big ol' troll in the article, the one with SCO on its forehead. Every time we pay the slightest bit of attention to him, he wins, and he gets a boost to his share price rather than his ego.
Seriously people isn't it obvious? The board of SCO is stuffed with people who've learnt and live by the mantra "There's a sucker born every minute", and have applied it to law suits and stock prices.
1. Launch a big, complicated contract lawsuit against a major player. 2. Spread FUD about a vaguely related tech subject that will make techies scream. 3. Profit!
Of course its a little more complicated than that. They have to string this out in the courts for the next few years (easy), while they make a few million each selling ridiculously over-valued shares. Then they have to find some patsies to take the fall (cf Enron) once they've sold out and the law suit finally falls apart.
They don't care in the slightest about Linux, Unix IP or what anyone thinks of them. They just want publicity, which boosts their share price, which makes them money. This is going to go on for years, and I'm already sick of seeing us fall for their every ridiculous announcement.
I know I'm urinating into the prevailing direction of air particle movement but Quit Posting SCO Stories.
Games have been educational long before there were video games. I've always been impressed by how much better an idea of, for example, Germany's Barbarossa campaign you can get from a wargame like Fire in the East, than from worthy historical works that simply list the battles and the millions of dead.
Just because the current crop of video games generally have little educational value doesn't make it an impossible mission. The Total War franchise gives you a reasonable idea of the complexities and detail of Medieval Japan and Europe, which certainly inspired me to do some background reading.
There are certainly difficulties in educating in subjects other than History, but it's not going to create any more morons than we have already. The book in the Diamond Age is an artifact that may be beyond us now as an educational tool (among many others), but that certainly shouldn't stop us from making some baby steps toward it.
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No, I don't mean any of the previous posters. I mean that big ol' troll in the article, the one with SCO on its forehead. Every time we pay the slightest bit of attention to him, he wins, and he gets a boost to his share price rather than his ego.
Seriously people isn't it obvious? The board of SCO is stuffed with people who've learnt and live by the mantra "There's a sucker born every minute", and have applied it to law suits and stock prices.
1. Launch a big, complicated contract lawsuit against a major player.
2. Spread FUD about a vaguely related tech subject that will make techies scream.
3. Profit!
Of course its a little more complicated than that. They have to string this out in the courts for the next few years (easy), while they make a few million each selling ridiculously over-valued shares. Then they have to find some patsies to take the fall (cf Enron) once they've sold out and the law suit finally falls apart.
They don't care in the slightest about Linux, Unix IP or what anyone thinks of them. They just want publicity, which boosts their share price, which makes them money. This is going to go on for years, and I'm already sick of seeing us fall for their every ridiculous announcement.
I know I'm urinating into the prevailing direction of air particle movement but Quit Posting SCO Stories.
Games have been educational long before there were video games. I've always been impressed by how much better an idea of, for example, Germany's Barbarossa campaign you can get from a wargame like Fire in the East, than from worthy historical works that simply list the battles and the millions of dead.
Just because the current crop of video games generally have little educational value doesn't make it an impossible mission. The Total War franchise gives you a reasonable idea of the complexities and detail of Medieval Japan and Europe, which certainly inspired me to do some background reading.
There are certainly difficulties in educating in subjects other than History, but it's not going to create any more morons than we have already. The book in the Diamond Age is an artifact that may be beyond us now as an educational tool (among many others), but that certainly shouldn't stop us from making some baby steps toward it.