This makes one think, but what I've been thinking about is a little different than some of the comments I've read here.
What happens if the U.S. is attacked again, and what if that attack uses something a little more destructive than the last. What is our response ??
We lost thousands the last time, what if the next time it involves millions ??
MAD worked quite well when it was the U.S. vs. USSR, but who / where is the enemy now - the situation is at best diffuse.
The working assumption seems to be that only a group with state sponsorship could pull off such an attack. Hence the leak and the warning - I.E. don't even think about it.
There is the risk of escalation here though, the down side is having the named states feel they too need a deterrent and/or offensive capability of their own.
I have to admit I am torn on this question between the need for a severe warning to anyone who would even think of such a thing and the need to avoid escalation. There seems to be no possible upside to playing the card, but the risks of not doing so could be equally negative.
What Miguel should answer here is the above
question. Charles River and Battery Ventures
certainly have a plan. Buy out or IPO ???
If the former, who ??? Think about it.
The whole Mono thing is about Ximian's
business plan, not the future of free
software.
C# is yet another example of the total inability
of the gnome project to focus. Yes this is a
flame, but I simply can't see how diversions like
this add any real value or contribute to what I
thought were the goals of the project.
Has anyone noticed the incredible Balkanization
that's going on here ??? What the hell is it about
Unix that makes all of its advocates want to engage
in a circular shooting match.
The free Unix world is fragmenting badly - if you
don't believe me just try to compile any major
(or minor for that matter) project from source.
Its time to move on and leave politics aside.
You can bitch all you want about this or that
license - if no one uses your code - who cares.
Back in the 80's while the major Unix vendors
were all trying to kill one another the rest
of us dreamed of a Unix we could actually afford
to run. Thanks to a kid from Finland that
dream was realized 10 years ago. I have been
using Linux since then and I hate to watch
while a bunch of idiots piss in everybodys
sandbox. Remember why we're all here - its
time to move on and get back to whats important.
Some interesting ideas here, fake or not.
A major PR campaign from the Linux
community to convince people that
XP is little more that a direct 24
hour link betweeen thier computer
and Redmond could hurt Microsoft a lot.
Remember the online fuss over Prodigy
some years back. Make it absolutly
clear in every forum you have access
to. Coupled with the ever increasing
cost of adopting and upgrading, it
should be possible to make everyone
who counts think twice about deploying
XP.
Get out there -> spread the word.
You might not like what the guy had to say, but
there were some nuggets of truth in there. Right
now the whole linux space has about as much appeal
to investors as an ebola epidemic. There are
a few high profile efforts left out there, if
these bomb - well, think about it for a minute.
You can spend a lot of time trying to point
the finger the other way, but it just doesn't
work that way. A few years ago the business
plans for these companies would not have
gotten past the laugh test. In some respect
the VC's are as much to blame as anyone, but
remember the golden rule...
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This makes one think, but what I've been thinking about is a little different
than some of the comments I've read here.
What happens if the U.S. is attacked again, and what if that attack uses
something a little more destructive than the last. What is our response ??
We lost thousands the last time, what if the next time it involves millions ??
MAD worked quite well when it was the U.S. vs. USSR, but who / where is
the enemy now - the situation is at best diffuse.
The working assumption seems to be that only a group with state sponsorship
could pull off such an attack. Hence the leak and the warning - I.E. don't even
think about it.
There is the risk of escalation here though, the down side is having the
named states feel they too need a deterrent and/or offensive capability
of their own.
I have to admit I am torn on this question between the need for a severe
warning to anyone who would even think of such a thing and the need
to avoid escalation. There seems to be no possible upside to playing
the card, but the risks of not doing so could be equally negative.
What Miguel should answer here is the above
question. Charles River and Battery Ventures
certainly have a plan. Buy out or IPO ???
If the former, who ??? Think about it.
The whole Mono thing is about Ximian's
business plan, not the future of free
software.
C# is yet another example of the total inability
of the gnome project to focus. Yes this is a
flame, but I simply can't see how diversions like
this add any real value or contribute to what I
thought were the goals of the project.
KDE / Gnome / BSD / Linux / GNU
Has anyone noticed the incredible Balkanization
that's going on here ??? What the hell is it about
Unix that makes all of its advocates want to engage
in a circular shooting match.
The free Unix world is fragmenting badly - if you
don't believe me just try to compile any major
(or minor for that matter) project from source.
Its time to move on and leave politics aside.
You can bitch all you want about this or that
license - if no one uses your code - who cares.
Back in the 80's while the major Unix vendors
were all trying to kill one another the rest
of us dreamed of a Unix we could actually afford
to run. Thanks to a kid from Finland that
dream was realized 10 years ago. I have been
using Linux since then and I hate to watch
while a bunch of idiots piss in everybodys
sandbox. Remember why we're all here - its
time to move on and get back to whats important.
Some interesting ideas here, fake or not. A major PR campaign from the Linux community to convince people that XP is little more that a direct 24 hour link betweeen thier computer and Redmond could hurt Microsoft a lot. Remember the online fuss over Prodigy some years back. Make it absolutly clear in every forum you have access to. Coupled with the ever increasing cost of adopting and upgrading, it should be possible to make everyone who counts think twice about deploying XP. Get out there -> spread the word.
You might not like what the guy had to say, but
there were some nuggets of truth in there. Right
now the whole linux space has about as much appeal
to investors as an ebola epidemic. There are
a few high profile efforts left out there, if
these bomb - well, think about it for a minute.
You can spend a lot of time trying to point
the finger the other way, but it just doesn't
work that way. A few years ago the business
plans for these companies would not have
gotten past the laugh test. In some respect
the VC's are as much to blame as anyone, but
remember the golden rule...