Install and teach open source, to the thousands of small companies that get the 30 day warnings from MS to pay up or face litigation for piracy. AND ADVERTISE THE FACT A blurd
Are you in a bind with the cost of your business software. Do you want a permanet end to endless upgrades and nagging license restriction. We can effetively train your staff to use simple office software, install and maintain your Intranet remotely. Our firm will guarantee your privacy, and effectively make your business software needs a thing of the past! Such is the power of open source software serviced by..........
I spilled my coffee all over my WiFi, My java didn't work too well, I am about as good with coffee as I am with Java!
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The most important part of the article is the truth that we are relinquishing too much by alowing a monopoly to control digital communication. It is the same as alowing a monoply on printing, the same thing Queen Elizabeth the first finally tried to strike down in her final years. We are headed down the wrong road and will pay dearly. This is one of the most important issues of our time. By alowing a monopoly on digital communication we beg the eventual end to free speech and debate. Yes it is about content control and who has it. Ironic but/. will no dought become a victim. From the article about the duration of monopoly ( To use the old English term. The right of ownership and resale of a process, invention, or idea was a monopoly granted by the Crown. )
The Founding Fathers wanted that term to be 14 years, with an additional 14 years if the author [was] still alive. After 28 years, they figured you'd had your chance to exploit your creation, and now it belonged to the nation at large. That way we would never end up with a system of hereditary privilege, similar to the printers guilds of Renaissance England, who tied up rights to dead authors and tightly controlled what could or could not be printed and who could or could not use literary material.
In America, land of free ideas as well as free people, this would never happen, they said.
Well, it's happened. It's happened because for years now Congress has allowed it to happen. We now have an exact replica of the medieval Stationers' Company, which controlled the English copyrights, only its names today are Disney, Bertelsmann, and AOL Time Warner. The big media companies, holding the copyrights of dead authors, have said, in effect, that Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton were wrong and that we should go back to the aristocratic system of hereditary ownership, granting copyrights in perpetuity. To effect this result, they've liberally greased the palms of Congressmen in the form of campaign contributions--and it's worked...
What I mean is that the majority of MS based small intranets are sold and serviced by small computer vendors. Thus even though there is rampant piracy of the office software, small businesses do not even know there is a choice when it comes to the OS!
You are 100% correct about the costs of hyped up so called artists these days. Put them infront of a small audiance with just instruments and most of them couldn't sell shit or play a lick without managers. Take away the overproduced crap that gets pushed to the masses and what do you have. No musicianship, creativity stiffled by the produce a hit factory industry. In general a complete decline in vocal, instrumental, harmonic, rythmic skills has occured. The music industry is going for a shit because they have lost track of the one thing that will always sell to a small and large audiance and keep the piper paid, great musicianship! I do not pirate music because, I would rather listen in person and buy great cds directly from the artist than buy todays commercial crap. The artistry of Lawrence Juber, The Kentucky Head Hunters or Micheal Lorimer is a good example.
10,000 stoned out jump and jive fans making more noise than a 7000 watt stage production with laser, pyros and all the other commercial shit is boring as hell, except to a brain dead half deaf audiance.
Living next door to a country that mostly dictates our economic policy, and the interpretation of our business law, is like sleeping next to an elephant. You hope it hasn't eaten too much green grass, and that it doesn't roll over on you. We have a regular habit of putting up with excrement from south of the border so it doesn't matter what we think. We wind up going along with the situation. The only company that is benefiting from this fiaSCO in Canada is Microsoft. By the legalised theft of good ideas by leveraging their OS to work better with their office and communication software, Microsoft have successfully modeled their business relationships on corporate despotism. Almost a Conquistador style conquor and plunder of the competition. As such Microsoft software in Canada has become like a business religion. YOU USE IT OR YOU DO NOT GET WORK, plain and simple, there is no choice.
From what I see and hear in computer stores everyone is hedging that Unix, SCO and IBM will self distruct and take Linux and open source with it. Such is the business attitude in Canada, they are all good MS sales people and will not rock the boat even if it sinks. The situation has become so monopolistic that it stinks.
The reason IBM is sending tech overseas is that the coders have, and are willing to learn to use more than MS.NET tools. The majority of tech schools turn out little else anymore in North America, and college grads here expect executive like compensation if they have even marginal skills.
Besides the emerging third world tech sector is not as blinded by Microsoft as we are here in North America. Thats why the Microsoft semi-phylanthropic things have been happening in the past two years.
I believe it is one of RedFats security patches for Rieser FS already. One good fun thing to do when they try to exploit an overload is to put some phoney crap in your config. The real fun one is a phoney config to tempt modem highjackers, boy they sure are persistent when they think they have found an open modem! Anything really malicous I log. Thanks for the tip.
As the organ sounds fade to black, tune in tomarrow for the next exciting episode of 'The World of Unix' will Daryl keep up this sharade or will he be ousted, will uncle Billy take advantage to offer servers cheap Linux migration packages? is Big Blue going to own up to the crime? Will the sysv virus kill all the Penguins in the zoo? Will Steve finally give in and use a real computer? and will that strange salesman from Europe get all the customers instead? The suspence is killing me.
What makes you think it is not coming out of Redmond. It is most likely MS that is putting them up to this crap, why else would MS spend money to license unix ware unless they are concerned about sys v code running their HOT Mail servers. For some reason or other I think SCO will now get a leg up from MS hardware partners, watch out for SCO to suddenly and inexplicably be usable on more cheap hardware!
Ya I was a little brain dead when I posted that! However as I think about what my reasoning was. Freedom of choice, (even to make the wrong ones). Is the constitutional right of every American. The one thing that should never be taken away is this LIBERTY. We in Canada also have this freedom however we have a different way of expressing ourselves and do not disparage the word liberal, the way brain dead Yankees have! The USA is edging closer and closer to information despotism and it is taking that route on the hightech highway. If we alow a monopoly to control digital communication world wide then we will have made a mockery of the American Constitution. This is as important as freedom of the press, free speech, and the very foundations of our shared heritage and greatness.
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Holy cow you must work for Microsoft to be that stuck in a/. disscusion!
Here we go again now Google is the next target of Microshaft. Guess it figures any company that can create a default search system like MSN that does an instant sucker search of your gullibility to subscribe to MSN and other MS services is bound to be out to shaft something like Google. Will Google now sell their tech to the Gates & Co.? Guess that might happen.
First thing that MS does to competitors in internet communication software is to discredit (drive investers away lower company value), then offer to buy, if that fails, then obfuscate the XML with more.NET and other important bullshit changes to internet language tools in its OS base. The next step is to again make things difficult by cloning the competitions features with the functions in their own software that cannot interface with the competitors ware. Then as the user base dries up offer again to buy out the software. This is the nature of the.NET strategy no wonder why whole Countries are starting to get more than a little pissed with M$. Competition is one thing economic despotism is another! They have successfully done this to WordPerfect, Netscape, AOL. No suprise Google is next, Adobe will take more time but you can bet they too are on Gates hit list.
Boy what a stuupid American question, the very thought of the word Liberal makes you think your political parties are the only social systems on Earth. The Liberal philosophy is open like open source to many nations outside the USA. The Conservatives usually say go with the flow, do not rock the boat and temp the Americans to restrict trade, then after the Conservatives win out like in Canada the the Americans slowly change the rules and screw their trading partners. The same sort of thing that MS does to other software companies.
Afterall a Liberal point of view listens to others, you might sway toward capital punishment, or right wing sentiments but a true Liberal will use freedom of speach (debate) and freedom of convictions (discent) to make the political system work. Certainly there are good reasons why sometimes the Government needs to make quick laws, but the law can then be judged by a process of debate if there was not enough time to react in the first place. Do not forget Liberal is a root word for Liberty, something that ignorant Americans forget. As far as it being liberal mamby pambies that are proposing this law it is in the best interest of Australia to fight the American/Microsoft domination of choice when it comes to IT software. Tiawan and many others are also starting to fight back. Soon it will be Canada's turn. And I will help.
I know this will be moded down however the American world view is so narrow that it creates ignorance and stupidity in within itself.
One could easily use a removable boot secter boot to test a linux install so I do not see the problem. I really think that a linux install would not be that much of a problem if the guys know how to use the server tools! They would not have to hose SCO right away. But as far as I am concerned the sooner the better. A dual P500 with a raid is no problem for Linux I use a dual P3 450 and my raid smokes.
The only difference between a Sony notebook and a Sony PC is that the notebook will go further when you get so pissed at their quirks you through them out the window Windows and all! (-::-) smilin' Siamese twins. 0-::-) one bought Apple the other bought Sony! Guess which is which?
If I remember correctly MS did not exactly help things by creating Word.doc as a numericaly formatted script even now there is formatting that cannot be used with any other program except word even though they have been told to cut it out by the courts. I can remember when major corporations like Canfor used Dos Word Perfect and found it to be great because of speed, flexability and ease of use. For that matter it was pretty much the standard in business word processing. What happened is that the company that controls OS developement can screw any software company it chooses to put out of business so it can dominate the market. No Corel could not succeed because they couldn't sue MS for stealing ideas. Symantec was a different story. If you control the code that must be used to access internet functionality, system calls to printer, etc and control who gets to use browser interfaces then you can screw any company you see as a major competitive treat. No I will miss Corel even though they got things wrong.
The truth is if you are seen to be a competitor to MS then you are on the hit list, unfortunately Corel went right to the top, along with AOL, and Netscape, who's next Adobe? No if some one takes over Word Perfect and makes a really great all in one Unix/Apple/Linux/FreeBSD version I will gladly pay for it, and I am sure there are many others who will also. There is no reason why WordPerfect, Corel Draw etc. cannot remain proprietary, but they had better be good.
No I do not bow hunt, want to try it some day though. I have friends who hunt bears with bows. I personally think they are nuts. They usually have someone with them with a minimum 300 mag with atleast 180 grains softtip standing by. It doesn't matter you still do not take a shot unless you are certain! Sure bows are quiet but bears are very preceptive creatures and have been known to get a little pissed if you wing them. My point was this gun will be less usefull than a sling shot for hunting. How you would even chuck a paint ball with it is beyond me. Iron jacket paint balls, not a bad idea I know some paint ball freaks you should try it out on, and a few of the bad American gung ho hunters I have met! You might have come up with the germ an idea with your statement however.
It might be possible to combine a bow with this tech including skookum battery packs, using iron empregnated graphite arrows. Result might be a very interesting power assisted bow. Kind of Robin Hood meats Buck Rogers, or a high tech Hiawatha, or Conan the battery boosted barbarian, who knows might even work!
Yipes the Linux boxen will smoke! 3500 US ok as long as it doesn't run windows I do not care. This could make it possible for a small company to finally make money renting compile time! To individuals who want to test source in a hurry and find that their old 64 bit dev platform is too small and slow. Time shares on real smokers is expensive, this could change things big time, good stuff IBM, keep it up and Open Source will finally start making quantuam leaps past the M$ world.
Ya buy an xbox ms is still losing money on them. For every xbox sold I hear they lose several bucks. If you are enough a sucker to fall for the.NET part later and put it on line and pay monthly or anual fees to MS then they might make money. Everbody buy an xbox and mod it, do something usefull with it like high speed vector scientific work. What would be a hoot is if Linux scientific work became possible with clusters of xboxs then MS might contribute something usefull back to the world that alows its monopoly. If the ms dream of a MILCHCOW of internet gaming occurs then we might as well forget about the internet all together, band width will go up in price not down! Kensian economics predicts exactly this fact. I seriously doubt that anymore than about 25 dollars a month for gaming is in the budget for extra bandwidth. The whole Xbox online gaming thing will be great at first then the howling of business at the cost of bandwidth will put an end to the venture.
There is also the problem of outdating firmware code that make customers buy updates! There are a number of inventory data base MS software companies that use a five year dev cycle to ensure that customers will be forced to upgrade. There is usually logic bomb like life cycles in the firmware to client software. One of the most common tricks is inventory scanning equipement that will only work with an updated software release. This happens to companies like wharehousing, and shipping firms to cite one example.
When the company goes to buy repacement hardware it is no longer available for the old software. Because the hardware companies are in cahoots with the software companies, forced upgrades become possible, and now have become standard business practice in computerised warehousing software.
This was why IBM was so great, they really did try to take in the needs of the customer first and made hardware manufactures ensure backward compatibility. With the introduction of MS style get rich quick philosophy to hardware, firmware, and software the business customer has become a thing to be milked not a valued resource.
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Are you in a bind with the cost of your business software. Do you want a permanet end to endless upgrades and nagging license restriction. We can effetively train your staff to use simple office software, install and maintain your Intranet remotely. Our firm will guarantee your privacy, and effectively make your business software needs a thing of the past! Such is the power of open source software serviced by ..........
I spilled my coffee all over my WiFi, My java didn't work too well, I am about as good with coffee as I am with Java!
This is one of the most important issues of our time. By alowing a monopoly on digital communication we beg the eventual end to free speech and debate. Yes it is about content control and who has it. Ironic but
The Founding Fathers wanted that term to be 14 years, with an additional 14 years if the author [was] still alive. After 28 years, they figured you'd had your chance to exploit your creation, and now it belonged to the nation at large. That way we would never end up with a system of hereditary privilege, similar to the printers guilds of Renaissance England, who tied up rights to dead authors and tightly controlled what could or could not be printed and who could or could not use literary material.
In America, land of free ideas as well as free people, this would never happen, they said.
Well, it's happened. It's happened because for years now Congress has allowed it to happen. We now have an exact replica of the medieval Stationers' Company, which controlled the English copyrights, only its names today are Disney, Bertelsmann, and AOL Time Warner. The big media companies, holding the copyrights of dead authors, have said, in effect, that Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton were wrong and that we should go back to the aristocratic system of hereditary ownership, granting copyrights in perpetuity. To effect this result, they've liberally greased the palms of Congressmen in the form of campaign contributions--and it's worked...
What I mean is that the majority of MS based small intranets are sold and serviced by small computer vendors. Thus even though there is rampant piracy of the office software, small businesses do not even know there is a choice when it comes to the OS!
Take away the overproduced crap that gets pushed to the masses and what do you have. No musicianship, creativity stiffled by the produce a hit factory industry. In general a complete decline in vocal, instrumental, harmonic, rythmic skills has occured. The music industry is going for a shit because they have lost track of the one thing that will always sell to a small and large audiance and keep the piper paid, great musicianship! I do not pirate music because, I would rather listen in person and buy great cds directly from the artist than buy todays commercial crap. The artistry of Lawrence Juber, The Kentucky Head Hunters or Micheal Lorimer is a good example.
10,000 stoned out jump and jive fans making more noise than a 7000 watt stage production with laser, pyros and all the other commercial shit is boring as hell, except to a brain dead half deaf audiance.
Maybe the people at SCO think he speaks Suomi. One could say he doesn't owe me anything unless I sue then he might owe me.
From what I see and hear in computer stores everyone is hedging that Unix, SCO and IBM will self distruct and take Linux and open source with it. Such is the business attitude in Canada, they are all good MS sales people and will not rock the boat even if it sinks. The situation has become so monopolistic that it stinks.
The reason IBM is sending tech overseas is that the coders have, and are willing to learn to use more than MS .NET tools. The majority of tech schools turn out little else anymore in North America, and college grads here expect executive like compensation if they have even marginal skills.
Besides the emerging third world tech sector is not as blinded by Microsoft as we are here in North America. Thats why the Microsoft semi-phylanthropic things have been happening in the past two years.
Now if a file format other than mp3 becomes available it will be a good service for musicians!
MSN will BC ing you soon
Looking at a digital tv rendition
Of the inevitable screen of blue
I believe it is one of RedFats security patches for Rieser FS already. One good fun thing to do when they try to exploit an overload is to put some phoney crap in your config. The real fun one is a phoney config to tempt modem highjackers, boy they sure are persistent when they think they have found an open modem! Anything really malicous I log. Thanks for the tip.
Fork you, and the source you rode in on!
#include
main()
{
printf("Linux is now crashing due to moron fork in code");
for(;;){
fork();
}
As the organ sounds fade to black, tune in tomarrow for the next exciting episode of 'The World of Unix' will Daryl keep up this sharade or will he be ousted, will uncle Billy take advantage to offer servers cheap Linux migration packages? is Big Blue going to own up to the crime? Will the sysv virus kill all the Penguins in the zoo? Will Steve finally give in and use a real computer? and will that strange salesman from Europe get all the customers instead?
The suspence is killing me.
What makes you think it is not coming out of Redmond. It is most likely MS that is putting them up to this crap, why else would MS spend money to license unix ware unless they are concerned about sys v code running their HOT Mail servers. For some reason or other I think SCO will now get a leg up from MS hardware partners, watch out for SCO to suddenly and inexplicably be usable on more cheap hardware!
Ya I was a little brain dead when I posted that! However as I think about what my reasoning was. Freedom of choice, (even to make the wrong ones). Is the constitutional right of every American. The one thing that should never be taken away is this LIBERTY. We in Canada also have this freedom however we have a different way of expressing ourselves and do not disparage the word liberal, the way brain dead Yankees have! The USA is edging closer and closer to information despotism and it is taking that route on the hightech highway. If we alow a monopoly to control digital communication world wide then we will have made a mockery of the American Constitution. This is as important as freedom of the press, free speech, and the very foundations of our shared heritage and greatness.
Holy cow you must work for Microsoft to be that stuck in a /. disscusion!
First thing that MS does to competitors in internet communication software is to discredit (drive investers away lower company value), then offer to buy, if that fails, then obfuscate the XML with more .NET and other important bullshit changes to internet language tools in its OS base. The next step is to again make things difficult by cloning the competitions features with the functions in their own software that cannot interface with the competitors ware. Then as the user base dries up offer again to buy out the software. This is the nature of the .NET strategy no wonder why whole Countries are starting to get more than a little pissed with M$.
Competition is one thing economic despotism is another! They have successfully done this to WordPerfect, Netscape, AOL. No suprise Google is next, Adobe will take more time but you can bet they too are on Gates hit list.
Afterall a Liberal point of view listens to others, you might sway toward capital punishment, or right wing sentiments but a true Liberal will use freedom of speach (debate) and freedom of convictions (discent) to make the political system work. Certainly there are good reasons why sometimes the Government needs to make quick laws, but the law can then be judged by a process of debate if there was not enough time to react in the first place. Do not forget Liberal is a root word for Liberty, something that ignorant Americans forget. As far as it being liberal mamby pambies that are proposing this law it is in the best interest of Australia to fight the American/Microsoft domination of choice when it comes to IT software. Tiawan and many others are also starting to fight back. Soon it will be Canada's turn. And I will help.
I know this will be moded down however the American world view is so narrow that it creates ignorance and stupidity in within itself.
One could easily use a removable boot secter boot to test a linux install so I do not see the problem. I really think that a linux install would not be that much of a problem if the guys know how to use the server tools! They would not have to hose SCO right away. But as far as I am concerned the sooner the better.
A dual P500 with a raid is no problem for Linux I use a dual P3 450 and my raid smokes.
The only difference between a Sony notebook and a Sony PC is that the notebook will go further when you get so pissed at their quirks you through them out the window Windows and all! (-::-) smilin' Siamese twins. 0-::-) one bought Apple the other bought Sony! Guess which is which?
The truth is if you are seen to be a competitor to MS then you are on the hit list, unfortunately Corel went right to the top, along with AOL, and Netscape, who's next Adobe? No if some one takes over Word Perfect and makes a really great all in one Unix/Apple/Linux/FreeBSD version I will gladly pay for it, and I am sure there are many others who will also. There is no reason why WordPerfect, Corel Draw etc. cannot remain proprietary, but they had better be good.
It might be possible to combine a bow with this tech including skookum battery packs, using iron empregnated graphite arrows. Result might be a very interesting power assisted bow. Kind of Robin Hood meats Buck Rogers, or a high tech Hiawatha, or Conan the battery boosted barbarian, who knows might even work!
Yipes the Linux boxen will smoke! 3500 US ok as long as it doesn't run windows I do not care. This could make it possible for a small company to finally make money renting compile time! To individuals who want to test source in a hurry and find that their old 64 bit dev platform is too small and slow. Time shares on real smokers is expensive, this could change things big time, good stuff IBM, keep it up and Open Source will finally start making quantuam leaps past the M$ world.
Ya buy an xbox ms is still losing money on them. For every xbox sold I hear they lose several bucks. If you are enough a sucker to fall for the .NET part later and put it on line and pay monthly or anual fees to MS then they might make money. Everbody buy an xbox and mod it, do something usefull with it like high speed vector scientific work. What would be a hoot is if Linux scientific work became possible with clusters of xboxs then MS might contribute something usefull back to the world that alows its monopoly. If the ms dream of a MILCHCOW of internet gaming occurs then we might as well forget about the internet all together, band width will go up in price not down! Kensian economics predicts exactly this fact. I seriously doubt that anymore than about 25 dollars a month for gaming is in the budget for extra bandwidth. The whole Xbox online gaming thing will be great at first then the howling of business at the cost of bandwidth will put an end to the venture.
When the company goes to buy repacement hardware it is no longer available for the old software. Because the hardware companies are in cahoots with the software companies, forced upgrades become possible, and now have become standard business practice in computerised warehousing software.
This was why IBM was so great, they really did try to take in the needs of the customer first and made hardware manufactures ensure backward compatibility. With the introduction of MS style get rich quick philosophy to hardware, firmware, and software the business customer has become a thing to be milked not a valued resource.