I was 39 and had never turned on a computer, well x86 anyway (good ol' C64, err no actually Vic20), then I got an x86(DOSonly) and played for a year and even eventually loaded Window 3.11; wrote some programs and ferked around with it. revamped my CV to include all sorts of previous jobs into a computer related jobs including 4 years at a business that didn't even exist.Managed to get on a six week IT job ready scheme. Had been unemployed a while and was government sponsored. this got me an intership at a Uni doing PC repairs and looking after some student labs. The next job required MAC and PC/Windows which by then I had, plus I had to have some UNIX. Read UNIX for dummies and got the job as a Sys Admin at another Uni. 18 months and some more experience later I was being poached by another faculty. I learned quick and was good at the job.
For ten years since then I have progressively worked above my knowledge and usually knew what I said I had to get the job by the time I left. Been a little stressful at times. Now I do Change Management and run some projects. Again working above what I really know but got so used to it that it's second nature now and sometimes I forget I am bull$hitting.
All this helps as I sold used cars once and in fact ran a car yard before I was twenty. Bottom line, can be done and don't let degree people blow you. They mostly know stuff they don't need to and to be frank some of them are the most useless IT people.
Industry certs help with bosses but again I know so many useless people who have those as well.
Good luck and give it a go if you think you can do it.
Again I offer you a Slashdor login so you don't have to be an AC. They are free as in beer and not that commy GPL like free thing.
Anyway, perhaps they don't know about your chair throwing abilities.
If they did they'd have more respect for you and would think more closely about the extortion racket thay appear to so unfailrly level at your charitable company.
It a shame not everyone is as fair as you and your company but some people just want everything and everything their own way.
I know that probably surprises you but there you go, you get that.
You are welcome to an account on Slashdot and don't have to be an AC.
For the record anyone can make their own protocols but unless we have some agreement then inter communication between different platforms would be impossible.
You see you'd end up with a monopoly otherwise if others weren't able to talk to your software.
IANAL, o wait, wrong discussion... IANAPhysicisist or IANAMathmatician, and maybe I am missing something, if so forgive my ignorance.
Nothing is something and nothing exists.
We talk about the universe as tho its the only one, the seen universe and the universe in other dimensions in relation to this "seen" universe. but nothing is everything and from this nothing comes everything.... maybe becuase we always think about the "seen" universe as tho its something special. wow, been here 10,20... 30.... n billion year... so am i sposed to be impressed when time is either irrelevent of forever.
The universe by defintion however is everything, seen, unseen and unimagined yet we define it as the "seen" universe otherwise our head explode (sorry asplode, my/. speel check kicked in). its the don't know that we don't know that makes anything we can't imagine so irrelevent and puny becuase its not the universe's fault we can't imagine it. I don't know how we can think in something so small. If we talk about the big bang and the time from then till now, how small an event in the realm of forever is that.
Get your head around this: The nothing is forever, has always been forever, will always be forever and will produce an infinite number of "seen" universes forever. It really is as simple as that.
the point is that whining here about how much MS gets attacked and the level of venom in posts against "poor ol' MS" is pointless and pathetic. This company is not despised for being successful only for the methods they employed to achieve that success and continue to employ to maintain it. They are not trusted.
Also they are Mafia like and it has been proven, Dell and other OEMs have testified to that just for starters.
You can argue that Bill is a great guy and gives money to the poor or even argue that his software is OK but to deny the shady business practices of MS is deny reality.
Attacking the rhetoric of my post cannot change that.
in a criminal case but found guilty in the civil case.
Doesn't mean MS and OJ aren't "criminals"
just put "microsoft criminal" into Google and see for yourself. (thats actually a joke but can't help laughing at the association)
You may be technically correct (which I didn't realize BTW) but the outcome is the same. This company is proven to be Mafia like to say the least and any whinning in their defence needs shooting down instantly.
Just to be even handed however, I am ambivalent about their software.
I get a little tired of the "you in the anti MS crowd". ".... but you are right "there are no hidden agendas " at MS; they ARE a convicted (time and again ) criminal who will stop at nothing to have everything their own way and they certainly can't hide THAT agenda. It is not propaganda to continually expose this MFSOB company for all their illegal and underhand ways.
Of course you'd know that if you stopped reading and believing MS press releases about how good they are.
If you don't like reading Slashdot, don't read it. Nobody here is going to be swayed by your crying foul for your beloved MS. As a company they have evils ways and all the thinking populace know it.
"Personally I think spreadsheets are the most dangerous software on the market. "
We do outsourced Unix and Oracle DBA work for a medium sized mining company and in the last couple of years set up a Prod DB and Apps tier plus a Test/Dev db plus apps, four nice new Dells running RHAS. They've just been taken over and the parent company wants to move the data off these boxes. The DBA telling me asked me to guess what and I said, O no, MS SQL and he laughed and said, O no; worse..... Acess!?! I winced. No, much worse he said.... I was thinking 16 bit DBIII as he told me..... Excel.
So in the coming months we have a job dumping the lot into.csv's and decommissioning the the Dells.
"Except that they've just chosen to ally with an authentic convicted anti-monopoly law violator, found so by more than one jurisdiction. And their collusion with that law violator is engineered to reinforce the monopoly."
Seriously I am with you on this one Bruce. Some people still don't get it and the obsequiousness of the media gets me fuming. ballmer was over here a few years back (Oz) and the suckiness of the media got to me. rang local TV, radio and news trying to get a (any) journo interested in another angle and reminding them this guy works for a convicted felon. Didn't really expect much interest, after all MS pay their wages though adds, but I just couldn't contain myself.
I am seriously not anti business but MS have it coming BIG TIME and Novell deserve what they get by the deal they've done (and I was a big time supporter of their NDS amoung other products). Being big and competitive and making huge dollars is one thing but being a monopoly and illegally using is something that deserve scorn, derision and attacking from any angle.
As for Novell, well I've always said they were the most stupid marketing company, after all their Directory Services (NDS) was and still is ahead of MS AD but would anyone know it. Now this deal with the devil really doesn't surprise me as does their surprise at the hornets nest they've stired up surprise me. I think you have to be half witted to be a manager at Novell, seriously what is with them?
Whether Hula thing has anything to do with the patent deal or not is unimportant but keeping the rage against the Vole and any co conspirators is!
And hands off the GPL; it's good for business and good for advancement of technology just the way it is.
The greatest likely hood of damage to electronic equipment is a thing called "thermal shock". As components cool the diffent rates of contraction (and on starting different rates of expansion) put strain on solder joints (and probably on silicon bits in the chips themselves).
Its a waste of power, yes but electronic equipment will likely last longer by staying hot, in a state of equilibrium if you like. For the same reason I am not happy to have HDD powering down as the strain spinning up versus continually spinning (with always constant air gap between platter and head) is large by comparison.
I also prefer fuel hungry V8s to pathetic 4s but thats because I am petrol head. Perhaps saving the planet means shooting people like me!
I am a sys admin with a semester of CS to my name. At 41 and unemployable I bullshited my way into a training course which ended up at a job at a Uni. At first like average user I was M$ centric but discovered Macs through the job. The next job at another Uni needed Unix skills and after reading Unix for Idiots I turned up for the interview and got the job. Then I really discovered Unix and now at 49 that all I do is admin Unix boxes. O I discovered Linux and four years ago i was the Linux nut at the company I work for; now we are putting our oracle finacials on Linux and have just won a major all of govt contract for Oracle on Linux. O how things change.
Anyway my point here (and no I haven't RTFA only the talk back) is this: i have had many an arguement with MS collegues I work with over the merit of OSS and FSF etc. and one of the points they try to make is that how can you guarrantee that a free open source project will continue to be supported. (not that thats relevent anyway with so much corporate support). One of my earlier incarnations was as a musician ( well wanna be rock star anyway) so I point out that those that code fro free are artists and like I never made money as a musician that i never stopped playing my guitar and spent lots on instruments (at least before the kids came along) and strings and lessons and even when I had paid gigs all the money went to costs for the roadies and beer. OSS et al will survive and florish for this very fact that those involved are artists.
From the article, IBM sue in early 90's for Patent revenue.
I just hope my faith that IBM has changed is real or my laptop HAS to go back. I suspect it has although of course its only their new business model but it would be nice to think that a company can have a busines model that is around things like the failrness of the GPL.
IBM used to be known as I've Been Married until they realized that their key workforce were at least once divorced and alcolholics ( and possibly coke heads in the late 80's and early 90's) and saw that writing on the wall if they continued the conservative blue suit no weakness viewof the business world. That and the failure of many of their other bussiness practices made signifiucant changes in their busines model and particularly how they viewed their workforce.
So I am just making an observation and a wish that Big Blue is really the champion of modern business practice, that is make a FAIR profit from FAIR business practices..... we can only hope.
this has been a./ headline and others for at least maybe 5 years so when it become real please email me
droversdog@eudoramail.com
like I like the idea but shit I remember the trial in Germany and the trial in...and thae trial in..... and and and and and and so on and just fuck Slashdot have rejected my posts, some good some bad and most just ugly but fuck they keep repeating this one...aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
moderators, please just mod me funny (well I thought so)... o and cowboyneil anwser your email.
and my sig for today (moderators this is insightful)
If smoking dope was any good for you they'd call it brilliant
Once upon a time ppl worked for a company or other organization all their working life. Less than 10 years made you look unstable. These days the thinking is more than 4 or 5 years means you are inflexible and probably intrenched in poor working habits and attitudes.
Simply say (if anyone does ask; unlikely) that thats a contractors life and that its a fact of life that you readily accept to continue working in your chosen field. More important to be cheerful, confident and a little blaise about it. As always be careful to say enough to answer any questions but not enough to provide the rope to hang yourself.
This SCO thing more often than not has amused me. At times I've even believed it to be a great thing for Linux ( who'd sue for something that wasn't a great product ) as the free publicity just couldn't be bought for any amount of money but this is going way to far.
Darl IS a dangerous loon and I don't think he's on a mission from God.
Yeh this is quite OK as far as I've used it. According to the search for downloads I've done this is a beta (see below). i wonder if the "free" will change with the "prod" version.
Also whats interesting is that the viral/pakman nature of the GPL can't be scaring Bill that much as it includes GPL'd software. Perhaps it comes with a warning.
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Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 Beta
This download is a self-extracting archive of the beta copy of the Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 product.
Killing a black guy (or whatever) in a game != racism. Racism is not giving a black guy an equal opportunity for jobs or education.
Nah, not giving a black guy (or whatever) the opportunity to be killed in a game == racism... if you are a percentage of the population you got to be a percentage of the road kill. How real would it be to GTA through China Town and run over Russians; sheesh!
The whole world's going crazy. Soon you'll all be like me:-)
so if this is flamebate where are all the flames... give me mo while I take off the asbestos suit because if ya can't stand the heat stay away from/.
its self evident that:
1. Linux is worth suing for! 2. its time stop wasting time applauding yet another distro... the world needs another snaffu distro like it needs another Microsoft enhancement. If you've got the nouce to put a distro togther go write an application the world needs to run on linux.... try a simple one like a GPL version of business software comparable (preferably better) to MYOB or a real snappy database GUI for mr average, something where he can use the power of the free db's available but with a REALLY intuitive front end, draga and drop, what ever, something nice. I hate eye candy but hey I'm already a fan. Small business in particularly is crying out for alterantives. Now, I can admin VMS, UNIX, MS and MacOS and probably a mainframe after RTFM *yeh so wooopty do* but my ol' man wants something he can run a club (he uses Access on a Mac and would love to use a GNU/Linux "distro" but what for... he needs a flashy piece of software to run the club. anyone interested I'll write the specification) and a friend of mine wants something to run small to mediums business, something slick!
I'm a fan of the GPL because it is so business friendly as well as the academic vision of better code through cooperation. And the business side appeals to my social conscience. GPL'd software can't be hi jacked by any one company, SCO's nonense aside. It may be the big company's will make the majority of revenue from GNU/Linux but there will always be room for small service company's and individuals to service clients, and servicing cliets is to me the key. The GPL spreads wealth without being anti business and is definitely pro competition. Why, you could even start your very own distribution *sigh*
More things linux don't need
YAWP - yet another word processor YASS YAST YAGUI - now I'm a KDE fan but Bruce Perins is right read here
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Slashdot Mirror
Good point but more importantly I vote that the best sig I've seen in a while.
O when you know the answer let me know
I was 39 and had never turned on a computer, well x86 anyway (good ol' C64, err no actually Vic20), then I got an x86(DOSonly) and played for a year and even eventually loaded Window 3.11; wrote some programs and ferked around with it. revamped my CV to include all sorts of previous jobs into a computer related jobs including 4 years at a business that didn't even exist.Managed to get on a six week IT job ready scheme. Had been unemployed a while and was government sponsored. this got me an intership at a Uni doing PC repairs and looking after some student labs. The next job required MAC and PC/Windows which by then I had, plus I had to have some UNIX. Read UNIX for dummies and got the job as a Sys Admin at another Uni. 18 months and some more experience later I was being poached by another faculty. I learned quick and was good at the job.
For ten years since then I have progressively worked above my knowledge and usually knew what I said I had to get the job by the time I left. Been a little stressful at times. Now I do Change Management and run some projects. Again working above what I really know but got so used to it that it's second nature now and sometimes I forget I am bull$hitting.
All this helps as I sold used cars once and in fact ran a car yard before I was twenty. Bottom line, can be done and don't let degree people blow you. They mostly know stuff they don't need to and to be frank some of them are the most useless IT people.
Industry certs help with bosses but again I know so many useless people who have those as well.
Good luck and give it a go if you think you can do it.
Mr Ballmer,
Again I offer you a Slashdor login so you don't have to be an AC. They are free as in beer and not that commy GPL like free thing.
Anyway, perhaps they don't know about your chair throwing abilities.
If they did they'd have more respect for you and would think more closely about the extortion racket thay appear to so unfailrly level at your charitable company.
It a shame not everyone is as fair as you and your company but some people just want everything and everything their own way.
I know that probably surprises you but there you go, you get that.
Mr Ballmer,
You are welcome to an account on Slashdot and don't have to be an AC.
For the record anyone can make their own protocols but unless we have some agreement then inter communication between different platforms would be impossible.
You see you'd end up with a monopoly otherwise if others weren't able to talk to your software.
I bet you didn't know THAT.
Regards
IANAL, o wait, wrong discussion... IANAPhysicisist or IANAMathmatician, and maybe I am missing something, if so forgive my ignorance.
... 30 .... n billion year... so am i sposed to be impressed when time is either irrelevent of forever.
/. speel check kicked in). its the don't know that we don't know that makes anything we can't imagine so irrelevent and puny becuase its not the universe's fault we can't imagine it. I don't know how we can think in something so small. If we talk about the big bang and the time from then till now, how small an event in the realm of forever is that.
Nothing is something and nothing exists.
We talk about the universe as tho its the only one, the seen universe and the universe in other dimensions in relation to this "seen" universe. but nothing is everything and from this nothing comes everything.... maybe becuase we always think about the "seen" universe as tho its something special. wow, been here 10,20
The universe by defintion however is everything, seen, unseen and unimagined yet we define it as the "seen" universe otherwise our head explode (sorry asplode, my
Get your head around this: The nothing is forever, has always been forever, will always be forever and will produce an infinite number of "seen" universes forever. It really is as simple as that.
It just how it all works.
the point is that whining here about how much MS gets attacked and the level of venom in posts against "poor ol' MS" is pointless and pathetic. This company is not despised for being successful only for the methods they employed to achieve that success and continue to employ to maintain it. They are not trusted.
Also they are Mafia like and it has been proven, Dell and other OEMs have testified to that just for starters.
You can argue that Bill is a great guy and gives money to the poor or even argue that his software is OK but to deny the shady business practices of MS is deny reality.
Attacking the rhetoric of my post cannot change that.
in a criminal case but found guilty in the civil case.
Doesn't mean MS and OJ aren't "criminals"
just put "microsoft criminal" into Google and see for yourself. (thats actually a joke but can't help laughing at the association)
You may be technically correct (which I didn't realize BTW) but the outcome is the same. This company is proven to be Mafia like to say the least and any whinning in their defence needs shooting down instantly.
Just to be even handed however, I am ambivalent about their software.
I get a little tired of the "you in the anti MS crowd". ".... but you are right "there are no hidden agendas " at MS; they ARE a convicted (time and again ) criminal who will stop at nothing to have everything their own way and they certainly can't hide THAT agenda. It is not propaganda to continually expose this MFSOB company for all their illegal and underhand ways.
Of course you'd know that if you stopped reading and believing MS press releases about how good they are.
If you don't like reading Slashdot, don't read it. Nobody here is going to be swayed by your crying foul for your beloved MS. As a company they have evils ways and all the thinking populace know it.
"Personally I think spreadsheets are the most dangerous software on the market. "
..... Excel.
.csv's and decommissioning the the Dells.
We do outsourced Unix and Oracle DBA work for a medium sized mining company and in the last couple of years set up a Prod DB and Apps tier plus a Test/Dev db plus apps, four nice new Dells running RHAS. They've just been taken over and the parent company wants to move the data off these boxes. The DBA telling me asked me to guess what and I said, O no, MS SQL and he laughed and said, O no; worse..... Acess!?! I winced. No, much worse he said.... I was thinking 16 bit DBIII as he told me
So in the coming months we have a job dumping the lot into
Believe it or not, but sadly a true story.
Hands off the GPL MS, Novel and all that are trying to circumvent it.
"Except that they've just chosen to ally with an authentic convicted anti-monopoly law violator, found so by more than one jurisdiction. And their collusion with that law violator is engineered to reinforce the monopoly."
Seriously I am with you on this one Bruce. Some people still don't get it and the obsequiousness of the media gets me fuming. ballmer was over here a few years back (Oz) and the suckiness of the media got to me. rang local TV, radio and news trying to get a (any) journo interested in another angle and reminding them this guy works for a convicted felon. Didn't really expect much interest, after all MS pay their wages though adds, but I just couldn't contain myself.
I am seriously not anti business but MS have it coming BIG TIME and Novell deserve what they get by the deal they've done (and I was a big time supporter of their NDS amoung other products). Being big and competitive and making huge dollars is one thing but being a monopoly and illegally using is something that deserve scorn, derision and attacking from any angle.
As for Novell, well I've always said they were the most stupid marketing company, after all their Directory Services (NDS) was and still is ahead of MS AD but would anyone know it. Now this deal with the devil really doesn't surprise me as does their surprise at the hornets nest they've stired up surprise me. I think you have to be half witted to be a manager at Novell, seriously what is with them?
Whether Hula thing has anything to do with the patent deal or not is unimportant but keeping the rage against the Vole and any co conspirators is!
And hands off the GPL; it's good for business and good for advancement of technology just the way it is.
Barry Gard
The greatest likely hood of damage to electronic equipment is a thing called "thermal shock". As components cool the diffent rates of contraction (and on starting different rates of expansion) put strain on solder joints (and probably on silicon bits in the chips themselves).
Its a waste of power, yes but electronic equipment will likely last longer by staying hot, in a state of equilibrium if you like. For the same reason I am not happy to have HDD powering down as the strain spinning up versus continually spinning (with always constant air gap between platter and head) is large by comparison.
I also prefer fuel hungry V8s to pathetic 4s but thats because I am petrol head. Perhaps saving the planet means shooting people like me!
I am a sys admin with a semester of CS to my name. At 41 and unemployable I bullshited my way into a training course which ended up at a job at a Uni. At first like average user I was M$ centric but discovered Macs through the job. The next job at another Uni needed Unix skills and after reading Unix for Idiots I turned up for the interview and got the job. Then I really discovered Unix and now at 49 that all I do is admin Unix boxes. O I discovered Linux and four years ago i was the Linux nut at the company I work for; now we are putting our oracle finacials on Linux and have just won a major all of govt contract for Oracle on Linux. O how things change.
Anyway my point here (and no I haven't RTFA only the talk back) is this: i have had many an arguement with MS collegues I work with over the merit of OSS and FSF etc. and one of the points they try to make is that how can you guarrantee that a free open source project will continue to be supported. (not that thats relevent anyway with so much corporate support). One of my earlier incarnations was as a musician ( well wanna be rock star anyway) so I point out that those that code fro free are artists and like I never made money as a musician that i never stopped playing my guitar and spent lots on instruments (at least before the kids came along) and strings and lessons and even when I had paid gigs all the money went to costs for the roadies and beer. OSS et al will survive and florish for this very fact that those involved are artists.
Without art we'd all be lawyesrs.
IBM create FUD
From the article, IBM sue in early 90's for Patent revenue.
I just hope my faith that IBM has changed is real or my laptop HAS to go back. I suspect it has although of course its only their new business model but it would be nice to think that a company can have a busines model that is around things like the failrness of the GPL.
IBM used to be known as I've Been Married until they realized that their key workforce were at least once divorced and alcolholics ( and possibly coke heads in the late 80's and early 90's) and saw that writing on the wall if they continued the conservative blue suit no weakness viewof the business world. That and the failure of many of their other bussiness practices made signifiucant changes in their busines model and particularly how they viewed their workforce.
So I am just making an observation and a wish that Big Blue is really the champion of modern business practice, that is make a FAIR profit from FAIR business practices..... we can only hope.
Well at least Microsoft can say there are WMDs in Iraq ( Weapons of Microsoft Destruction ).... told ya ...
this has been a ./ headline and others for at least maybe 5 years so when it become real please email me
...and thae trial in ..... and and and and and and so on and just fuck Slashdot have rejected my posts, some good some bad and most just ugly but fuck they keep repeating this one...aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
droversdog@eudoramail.com
like I like the idea but shit I remember the trial in Germany and the trial in
moderators, please just mod me funny (well I thought so)... o and cowboyneil anwser your email.
and my sig for today (moderators this is insightful)
If smoking dope was any good for you they'd call it brilliant
Once upon a time ppl worked for a company or other organization all their working life. Less than 10 years made you look unstable. These days the thinking is more than 4 or 5 years means you are inflexible and probably intrenched in poor working habits and attitudes.
Simply say (if anyone does ask; unlikely) that thats a contractors life and that its a fact of life that you readily accept to continue working in your chosen field. More important to be cheerful, confident and a little blaise about it. As always be careful to say enough to answer any questions but not enough to provide the rope to hang yourself.
This SCO thing more often than not has amused me. At times I've even believed it to be a great thing for Linux ( who'd sue for something that wasn't a great product ) as the free publicity just couldn't be bought for any amount of money but this is going way to far.
Darl IS a dangerous loon and I don't think he's on a mission from God.
Yeh this is quite OK as far as I've used it. According to the search for downloads I've done this is a beta (see below). i wonder if the "free" will change with the "prod" version.
Also whats interesting is that the viral/pakman nature of the GPL can't be scaring Bill that much as it includes GPL'd software. Perhaps it comes with a warning.
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1.
Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 Beta
This download is a self-extracting archive of the beta copy of the Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 product.
Date: 7/27/2003 Popularity: #367 English download
If smoking dope was any good for you they'd call it brilliant!
Nah, not giving a black guy (or whatever) the opportunity to be killed in a game == racism... if you are a percentage of the population you got to be a percentage of the road kill. How real would it be to GTA through China Town and run over Russians; sheesh!
The whole world's going crazy. Soon you'll all be like me :-)
then wouldn't we all be biosed?
will this get me to work on time?
so if this is flamebate where are all the flames... give me mo while I take off the asbestos suit because if ya can't stand the heat stay away from /.
... he needs a flashy piece of software to run the club. anyone interested I'll write the specification) and a friend of mine wants something to run small to mediums business, something slick!
/.
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its self evident that:
1. Linux is worth suing for!
2. its time stop wasting time applauding yet another distro... the world needs another snaffu distro like it needs another Microsoft enhancement. If you've got the nouce to put a distro togther go write an application the world needs to run on linux.... try a simple one like a GPL version of business software comparable (preferably better) to MYOB or a real snappy database GUI for mr average, something where he can use the power of the free db's available but with a REALLY intuitive front end, draga and drop, what ever, something nice. I hate eye candy but hey I'm already a fan. Small business in particularly is crying out for alterantives. Now, I can admin VMS, UNIX, MS and MacOS and probably a mainframe after RTFM *yeh so wooopty do* but my ol' man wants something he can run a club (he uses Access on a Mac and would love to use a GNU/Linux "distro" but what for
I'm a fan of the GPL because it is so business friendly as well as the academic vision of better code through cooperation. And the business side appeals to my social conscience. GPL'd software can't be hi jacked by any one company, SCO's nonense aside. It may be the big company's will make the majority of revenue from GNU/Linux but there will always be room for small service company's and individuals to service clients, and servicing cliets is to me the key. The GPL spreads wealth without being anti business and is definitely pro competition. Why, you could even start your very own distribution *sigh*
More things linux don't need
YAWP - yet another word processor
YASS
YAST
YAGUI - now I'm a KDE fan but Bruce Perins is right read here
http://userlinux.com/GUI.html
from
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/19/205
YAGTDW
I'm all for diversity but enough guys. Linux already owns the server space now go write some business apps or should we all just keep playing with.
BEOS on Amiga - the future
George Bush's Alternative Fuels
Saddam's Adventure Tours of Iraq
O J Simpson's Golf Academy
Bill Clinton's Cigar Emporium
Osama Bin Laden's Weapons Wholesale
Microsofts Totally Secure Software Sale
RIAA Free Downloads
DVD Jon's Handmade Number Plates
but the most anticipated for 2004 is.....
SCO's Closing Down Sale
Linux: Worth suing everone for!