Neither is WindowsNT. My perception is that problems with linux are fixed much more quickly. Both do have security holes as do all operating systems. There will come a time when there will be very little technical difference between WindowsNT and linux. I think Microsoft will find ways to adapt and have a faster roll out of patches and upgrades. They may even go GPL. Then it won't matter which OS you have. For now I like to have the source if I need it.
This is the standard deal, in Silicon Valley, Portland Oregon or elsewhere. What I'm paid today I would have considered obscene. My perks are movie tickets and such, buuuut... also work as much or little as I like. About 8 hours a day, five days a week. I could make even more but I like my free time. I don't get burnt out anymore. My only responsiblity is to get the job done. I can be replaced of course but it would be very expensive. Plus I actually get to develop on Linux.
Yeah, I guess I am kind of bragging but my point is technical people can write their check for where ever they want, for whatever amount, choice of working conditions included. If you're not doing that now, you're a fool.
I would never purchase and install a package where the vendor could disable me at a moments notice. Should a uniform law like this pass, it will make free/open software much, much more popular with mainstream companies. Fear is a powerful motivator.
The more you do it the better you get. I'm 31 and I've been coding for 12 years. I work with programmers who average 50 and are much more productive than I am. Not because they're more intelligent but because they've made all the mistakes. Programming is a craft. It wears paths of thinking into your brain. The more you do it the easier it gets.
I understand that companies lay off older programmers because they think they will save money. I've seen them do it. I've seen them pay the price. How could a company possibly lay off 300 programmers in their 50's and expect 170 consultants (who average 25) to pick up where they left off? They ended up hiring another 500 consultants and it ended up costing them 40 million.
The smart companies know better and those are the ones I will work at no matter what my age.
To everyone (the open source community), it still looked like a netscape project. I would hesitate to put my time and effort into something where I felt like a cog in the system. I've enough of that at work.
Netscape could have done better by offering support to other Open Source browsers.
What would your opinion have been had Netscape offered to enhance Arena or another browser? More favourable I think.
Wyse and other companies still make them. I usually see them in small computer shops and other stores that resell used hardware. If you're near Portland OR, I know a place that has three or four of them for ten bucks each. Try searching the web for "terminal resellers" or some such
Microsoft wants a PR person to investigate Linux. Which won't take very long. After that it will be that persons job to discover effective ways to promote M$ products while mitigating any perceived threat from the Linux.
So M$ thinks of Linux as a threat, nothing new there. Microsoft is allocating more people and resources towards that threat. Most people knew that would happen.
Microsoft is a marketing company first and a software company second. They always have been and it's the reason for there finacial success.
The question is how will they combat the threat other than FUD and legal means? How much money are they going to put into it? Does it really affect most geeks/hackers?
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Neither is WindowsNT. My perception is that problems with linux are fixed much more quickly. Both do have security holes as do all operating systems. There will come a time when there will be very little technical difference between WindowsNT and linux. I think Microsoft will find ways to adapt and have a faster roll out of patches and upgrades. They may even go GPL. Then it won't matter which OS you have. For now I like to have the source if I need it.
Guinness,
It would be worth it just for the free beer.
MMMMmmmm Beer.
This is the standard deal, in Silicon Valley, Portland Oregon or elsewhere. What I'm paid today I would have considered obscene. My perks are movie tickets and such, buuuut... also work as much or little as I like. About 8 hours a day, five days a week. I could make even more but I like my free time. I don't get burnt out anymore. My only responsiblity is to get the job done. I can be replaced of course but it would be very expensive. Plus I actually get to develop on Linux.
Yeah, I guess I am kind of bragging but my point is technical people can write their check for where ever they want, for whatever amount, choice of working conditions included. If you're not doing that now, you're a fool.
I would never purchase and install a package where the vendor could disable me at a moments notice. Should a uniform law like this pass, it will make free/open software much, much more popular with mainstream companies. Fear is a powerful motivator.
The more you do it the better you get. I'm 31 and I've been coding for 12 years. I work with programmers who average 50 and are much more productive than I am. Not because they're more intelligent but because they've made all the mistakes. Programming is a craft. It wears paths of thinking into your brain. The more you do it the easier it gets.
I understand that companies lay off older programmers because they think they will save money. I've seen them do it. I've seen them pay the price. How could a company possibly lay off 300 programmers in their 50's and expect 170 consultants (who average 25) to pick up where they left off? They ended up hiring another 500 consultants and it ended up costing them 40 million.
The smart companies know better and those are the ones I will work at no matter what my age.
To everyone (the open source community), it still looked like a netscape project. I would hesitate to put my time and effort into something where I felt like a cog in the system. I've enough of that at work.
Netscape could have done better by offering support to other Open Source browsers.
What would your opinion have been had Netscape offered to enhance Arena or another browser? More favourable I think.
Wyse and other companies still make them. I usually see them in small computer shops and other stores that resell used hardware. If you're near Portland OR, I know a place that has three or four of them for ten bucks each. Try searching the web for "terminal resellers" or some such
Microsoft wants a PR person to investigate Linux. Which won't take very long. After that it will be that persons job to discover effective ways to promote M$ products while mitigating any perceived threat from the Linux.
So M$ thinks of Linux as a threat, nothing new there. Microsoft is allocating more people and resources towards that threat. Most people knew that would happen.
Microsoft is a marketing company first and a software company second. They always have been and it's the reason for there finacial success.
The question is how will they combat the threat other than FUD and legal means? How much money are they going to put into it? Does it really affect most geeks/hackers?
-Dave