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apache has been able to do that since 2.2. Of course, a web page larger than 2 gigs is a bug not a feature...
You *are* aware that HTTP is used to transfer more than just HTML, right?
Like he said, it's a bug not a feature. Torrent and FTP are much more efficient, especially when handling interrupted transfers. HTTP doesn't. Unreliable networks can make a net-based installation process drag on and on or even freeze.
Except that this is a story about a "web conference hosted by the license-sniffing firm Black Duck software". Blackduck is hardly going to allow any criticism of its partner, Microsoft, nor allow its major thorn, the GPL, to go unmolested. Go re-read plaintiff's exhibit 3096 about stacking conference panels. Even without a sock puppet organizing the conference, M$ has a prolific history now of interfering with and shutting down conferences on competing (that's everything by the way) technologies.
"So you want to love those
conferences to death. I've killed at least two Mac conferences. First there was the Mac
App Developers Conference. I was on the Board of Directors of the Mac App
Developers Association long ago, and after I left I worked to try to turn it into a cross-
platform developers conference, and I did. I managed to make their last conference
was very cross-platformn, both Windows and Macintosh, which of course turned off their
Macintosh audience; half of the conference was irrelevant to them. They didn't care
about Windows. They were a bunch of Mac guys. Which diluted the value of the
conference. And they didn't know how to advertise the Windows guys when the
Windows guys showed up. So they lost money that year and the group folded. Oh, well.
One less channel of communication that Apple canuse to reach its developers."Plaintiff's Exhibit 2456, Comes v Microsoft
When you're dealing with Microsoft, you're dealing with cockroaches. Get over it.
I wonder who pays these gentlemen. And, again, who pays those who pay them...
Blackduck is founded and stocked by Microsoft employees. Though it would be damning enough in this context to point out that it is an active Microsoft partner.
SCO was a pre-existing company re-purposed several times, turned pump-n-dump, turned sock puppet. Blackduck was founded from the beginning for the activities it is engaged in.
The marketing firms working for M$ pull this shit every release: wait a while and then pretend the flop was a success. Remember XP SP2? XP?
"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy."
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
There's all kinds of good stuff in that one. It's especially interesting when you see that M$ started its jihad (yes, the movement leadership's own words) back in the 1990's. It sure looks like a political / ideological / religious movement that uses illegal means to push its agenda and at the cost of billions of dollars of damage. Isn't DHS suppose to be protecting us from people like that?
MS-CC-RN 000001089959
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
MGB 2003
7/7/2005 10:52 AM
Assume Linux is in your account Someone is doing some research
Find and Lean on your insider friend, 'the fox' Having a trusted
MSfriend in the account is critical. Some people (unix Bigots) can
think of lots of reasons not to have a MS solution. MS folks may not be
the strongest voice but they are true believers (Protect them, make them
look good)
In other news, sources not partnered with Microsoft announce that Microsoft's desktop market share has dipped down to 59%. Between Conficker and Internet banking exploits, it could happen.
Seriously, better check the BSA's definition of 'pirated'. Previous announcements like this turned out to classify any non-MS software as 'pirated'.
Good. Hit a nerve there.
de Icaza's behavior and statements leave no doubt that he acts and talks like a Microsoft shill. It's been obvious for a decade. It's been undeniable by even the most obtuse for years, especially since his anti-open standards statement to hinder ODF.
Microsoft should ask for its money back. de Icaza is a terrible troll.
de Icaza doesn't have to be good, he just has to make noise. That's the role of a troll. M$ only trots him out and yanks his leash when a distraction is needed. His bag of tricks consists of name calling, which works for press dependent Microsoft partner advertising money.
Or to distract from technical issues like quality and performance. Mono is very poor copy of Java and there are many other tools much further along that Mono can never catch up with including Ruby, Python, and Perl.
Maybe a distraction from Lisbon and Software Patents up Europe's backdoor? It's only Europe that is holding out still. Anything to distract from the freedom to use software.
Technological independence is a pillar in modern democracy and of national independence. That's been dependent on both open source (inlcuding Free Software) and on open standards.
Richard Stallman from the USA, Edgar Villanueva from Peru, and many others have made the incontrovertable point that Miguel is actively fighting against. There are some very nasty legal names for what Miguel is doing to your country.
I didn't think it affected me either until I put a new copy of debian on a machine and did an "apt-get install gnome" and found a copy of mono being installed on my machine. What I want to know is WTF was debian even thinking when they did that? It's obvious they weren't thinking very well since they back-pedaled and claimed that mono wasn't in the default install, by which they mean that it's only in the gnome metapackage and not the gnome-core or gnome-desktop. It's also equally obvious that anyone who wants to install gnome will first try apt-get install gnome rather than the non-intuitive gnome-core.
The point is that Mono is creeping into distributions...
As a fellow Debian user, I too am incensed that Debian developers, without consulting the user base have taken a monumental leap away from the projects original stated goals and ideals. You now have a team of cockroaches inside the bread box: Eduard Bloch (Zomb), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Sebastian Dröge (slomo), Jo Shields (directhex), and David Paleino (hanska) somehow got into Debian and are spending their time to inject contaminate it with Microsoft imitations of legitimate technologies.
Again, if Miguel's time on earth is so precious short, WTF is he spending it encouraging people to reinvent the wheel using failed products? Mono needs to be removed from Debian. The mono team needs to be removed from Debian. If they want to continue their work, fine, but do it in Redmond far away from the from any Open Source or Free Software projects.
The whole fiasco also speaks volumes to how the trade journals have been whittled down, removed and controlled. Debian was high-tech, ethical when it came out. Now gNewSense fills that role. However, there's no reason to cede Debian to Microsoft, especially not since important distros are built from Debian. But that would be the main reason Microsoft activist have it as a target to ruin.
With the back-pedalling, Debian leadership shows it is aware of the problem. Next step is to do something. Right now it looks like a personnel problem with a small clique pushing their personal agenda where the monomaniacal goal is to shove M$ technology in every project in existence. It doesn't seem to matter to them if something is good quality or bad, efficient or inefficient, appropriate or not licensed with a clear safe license or not.
Mono is start to end a Microsoft technology.
Those few individuals writing to defend mono must cease astroturfing and offer full disclosure as to their employment. M$ astroturfing is not tolerated.
Microsoft should ask for its money back. de Icaza is a terrible troll.
de Icaza doesn't have to be good, he just has to make noise. That's the role of a troll. M$ only trots him out and yanks his leash when a distraction is needed. His bag of tricks consists of name calling, which works for press dependent Microsoft partner advertising money.
Or to distract from technical issues like quality and performance. Mono is very poor copy of Java and there are many other tools much further along that Mono can never catch up with including Ruby, Python, and Perl.
Maybe a distraction from Lisbon and Software Patents up Europe's backdoor?
It's only Europe that is holding out still. Anything to distract from the freedom to use software.
Technological independence is a pillar in modern democracy and of national independence. That's been dependent on both open source (inlcuding Free Software) and on open standards. Miguel is actively fighting against both and encouraging people to move away from both.
There are some very nasty legal names for what Miguel is doing to your country.
I didn't think it affected me either until I put a new copy of debian on a machine and did an "apt-get install gnome" and found a copy of mono being installed on my machine. What I want to know is WTF was debian even thinking when they did that?
As a fellow Debian user, I too am incensed that Debian developers, without consulting the user base have taken a monumental leap away from the projects original stated goals and ideals.
You now have a team of cockroaches inside the bread box: Eduard Bloch (Zomb), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Sebastian Dröge (slomo), Jo Shields (directhex), and David Paleino (hanska) somehow got into Debian and are spending their time to inject contaminate it with Microsoft imitations of legitimate technologies.
Again, if Miguel's time on earth is so precious short, WTF is he spending it encouraging people to reinvent the wheel using failed products?
Mono needs to be removed from Debian. The mono team needs to be removed from Debian.
The whole fiasco also speaks volumes to how the trade journals have been whittled down, removed and controlled. Debian was high-tech, ethical when it came out. Now gNewSense fills that role. However, there's no reason to cede Debian to Microsoft, especially not since important distros are built from Debian. But that would be the main reason Microsoft activist have it as a target to ruin.
From all those cities listed in the report linked above, only Athens seems to have failed to properly exploit the effect of hosting the Olympic Games.
Athens was a big failure. Two problems that stand out in my memory are the clustefuck that was their transportation network and the audiences. The transportation was so bad that even some of the athletes missed their events. With Microsoft putting in a 'data center' in Chicago and whining about needing a too-big-to-fail handout, it's no wonder that the Olympic Committee had to steer away from Chicago.
You'll have to explain to us who the "crazy fuckers" are. Because I seem to remember it was a group of mostly Saudi's who happened to be fundamentalists (notice how I separate the two?!) that decided it would be a good idea to hijack our airplanes and ram them into our buildings.
You don't know that. You know that a group of mostly Saudis did ram three planes into three buildings. You don't know who decided that it would be a good idea. The investigation was cancelled partway into the initial phase.
Speculating on who decided is simply blowing hot air.
For all you know, it could have been a false flag op or planned by Xe (formerly Backwater).
All 2-bazillion pages of the Patriot Act were all ready to go and just waiting for an emergency, so there are more suspects than just some Saudis.
The article have very good point. However the hosting service blogger.com has really incompetent web designers and that really detracts from a fairly important post.
The service ignores browser languages preferences and follows a racist regime of choosing a language for you.
The pull-down menu to change languages, if you can find it, has the language names localized to the language chosen. So if you are stuck with arabic, you will have to know that 'Ø¥ÙÙfÙÙSØÙS' means 'English' in order to switch the UI.
Can we pull the handful of competent web designers, that presumably once existed, out of retirement and have them clean up the major web sites?
The "crime", if you want to call it that, is that after years of scuzzball tactics, FUD, lawsuits, smears, and namecalling ("linux is a cancer"... remember that?), a true blue, died-in-the-wool authoritarian software vendor is posing as a "look-at-me-I'm-hip-now" open source software vendor, likely while trying to find yet another way to screw the real open source community. Judging by the way they structured their "open source" (to use the term veeeerrryy loosely) initiative, they seem to think that open source means "will do what we tell them for free", proving that they still don't get it.
RICO should cover most of M$ business models, past and present.
While you're at it, add up the total damage from the Windows malware per quarter. It's got the late Osama Bin Laden beat, hands down. There may well be a business case for air strikes against Redmond. Obviously that would be preceded by naval bombardment and followed by after-action mop up by ground units.
"...a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation."
Doesn't look like it captures the OSS development spirit, to me...
The article is well-thought and well written. Though Andy uses longer, politer phrases to beat around the bush, M$ Code Pox, is a scam and misrepresentation. Even though we're not surprised by that behavior from M$ and its minions, we shouldn't put up with it. After all, ten years ago tech people laughed at M$, M$ products, M$ users and M$ boosters. however, they did nothing to stop the spread and now look at the big cleanup job before us.
There are just too many barriers to it ever becoming credible. Look at any of the required changes Andy mentions. This one in particular stands out:
"Provide that no company and its affiliates (including Microsoft) can have more than one representative on the Board of Directors or Board of Advisors."
No way that one can be overcome. M$ has long been using it's tactic of panel stacking to carry out its jihad.
M$ representatives include those by proxy, such as those from sock-puppets and political action groups like Black Dork Software, Novell and others.
Then you have all the activists M$ has placed inside other companies. Juniper Networks, NComputing, Yahoo (especially via the board), Xensource are now saddled with M$ moles.
That is just a sample, and each of those companies turned and started to toe the M$ party line after taking on one or more moles.
Now, you may ask, how is all this getting financed and who is underwriting it? The answer: each and every bastard who in any way is helping build or maintain M$ marketshare, that's who.
Indeed, it gives one great pause since that computer *should* have been running anti-virus software to check each download and executable as it was opened, and, presumably, would have caught this installation. Through professional contacts, I'm passingly familiar with the IT environment in a Big University Hospital and the hoops that my colleagues have to jump through to put a PC on the hospital network are near onerous. Those machines are sterile, or as close to sterile as humanly possible.
Don't be a shithead. E-Mail is not a replacement for a file system. Nor should hospitals be using systems that are even remotely succeptible to malware. Pretending otherwise or, worse, blaming the user for defective products is an M$ attitude. There are two underlying problems hidden:
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
2) Any self-respecting milter can strip ALL attachments automatically and delete them. MIMEDefang is a good example, but one of many. The stripping of attachments can even include a non-looping auto-reply to the sender including instructions on the correct way to transfer files.
Microsoft is following its normal behavior of ripping off other peoples ideas because they just don't have any of their own. This may have worked well in the past ( windows, office, etc. ) but it's not viable now, google are big enough to not be prone to Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics and google don't depend on microsoft's OS.
Microsoft have never been able to dominate without their unfair advantage and they are losing that. The stranglehold that kept MS in business for decades is now falling apart.
I predict a long protracted death for microsoft. And good riddance, I never liked their poor quality products or nasty business practices anyway.
It will take a solid push. Sadly, if you have M$ products in your network you have a personnel problem. That won't go away on its own. There are also dozens of M$ "interns" that are unaccounted for and will have be found and packed of to fields where they can't cause any harm either.
No one's ever liked the M$ products
They bought DOS, they bought Windows â" they stole Windows, excuse me; they bought PowerPoint, they bought Word, Excel, they bought WebTV, they bought their browser technology, they bought Hotmail, they bought a billion dollars of Comcast: they bought, they bought, they bought. What have they innovated? Goose egg.
Interview with Scott McNealy in 1999.
Because any technical announcement anywhere in the world is followed by a "me, too!" from Bill Gates. Then after 3 to 6 years the half-trained monkeys have stolen or slapped together some crap with enough of a user interface to fool a few MBAs into thinking that MS might have an entry in that market.
which serves to trigger the portion of the DMCA law (Britain probably has equivalent legal language now due to copyright "normalization" treaties)
And that's where you're wrong.
Like most US abominations, the DMCA is a US-only thing.
European laws prevent the adoption of any DMCA-like law in any country of the union. It does have something slightly similar though: circumvention is allowed unless it is done for illegal purposes; that means you're not allowed to spread information of how to break the protection of a certain service to render that protection ineffective and use the service for free, for example.
Well then you might want to contact your EU representatives and let them know. They appear to have gone and not only passed the EUCD. Since then, the member states have been scrambling over each other to make nasty implementations of the EUCD at home.
Besides, laws only apply to honest folk. The situation there at the BBC is that Microsoft toadies have been moving in and locking the BBC into anti-democratic technologies. M$ still hasn't made good on the legal obligations set by the European courts about media formats, players and browsers. All three violations come to play here in the BBC.
The time for putting up with Microsofters is over. They're killing services (e.g. BBC), jobs and the economy.
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apache has been able to do that since 2.2. Of course, a web page larger than 2 gigs is a bug not a feature...
You *are* aware that HTTP is used to transfer more than just HTML, right?
Like he said, it's a bug not a feature. Torrent and FTP are much more efficient, especially when handling interrupted transfers. HTTP doesn't. Unreliable networks can make a net-based installation process drag on and on or even freeze.
Read the article, the web conference is hosted by the "license-sniffing", Microsoft partner Black Duck software.
stacked panels are an ongoing tactic of M$.
Anyway, the GPL has already been proven more than a few times in court on both sides of the Atlantic.
First U.S. GPL lawsuit heads for quick settlement
A GPL compliance case against Iliad
Except that this is a story about a "web conference hosted by the license-sniffing firm Black Duck software". Blackduck is hardly going to allow any criticism of its partner, Microsoft, nor allow its major thorn, the GPL, to go unmolested. Go re-read plaintiff's exhibit 3096 about stacking conference panels. Even without a sock puppet organizing the conference, M$ has a prolific history now of interfering with and shutting down conferences on competing (that's everything by the way) technologies.
"So you want to love those conferences to death. I've killed at least two Mac conferences. First there was the Mac App Developers Conference. I was on the Board of Directors of the Mac App Developers Association long ago, and after I left I worked to try to turn it into a cross- platform developers conference, and I did. I managed to make their last conference was very cross-platformn, both Windows and Macintosh, which of course turned off their Macintosh audience; half of the conference was irrelevant to them. They didn't care about Windows. They were a bunch of Mac guys. Which diluted the value of the conference. And they didn't know how to advertise the Windows guys when the Windows guys showed up. So they lost money that year and the group folded. Oh, well. One less channel of communication that Apple canuse to reach its developers." Plaintiff's Exhibit 2456, Comes v MicrosoftWhen you're dealing with Microsoft, you're dealing with cockroaches. Get over it.
I wonder who pays these gentlemen. And, again, who pays those who pay them...
Blackduck is founded and stocked by Microsoft employees. Though it would be damning enough in this context to point out that it is an active Microsoft partner.
SCO was a pre-existing company re-purposed several times, turned pump-n-dump, turned sock puppet. Blackduck was founded from the beginning for the activities it is engaged in.
That and it sucks.
The marketing firms working for M$ pull this shit every release: wait a while and then pretend the flop was a success. Remember XP SP2? XP?
Wow, that presentation is superb.
There's all kinds of good stuff in that one. It's especially interesting when you see that M$ started its jihad (yes, the movement leadership's own words) back in the 1990's. It sure looks like a political / ideological / religious movement that uses illegal means to push its agenda and at the cost of billions of dollars of damage. Isn't DHS suppose to be protecting us from people like that?
We've all seen these saboteurs in action.
BSA Says 41% Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated
Well customers choose linux because Apps are easier to pirate. Steve Winfield of Microsoft's anti-FOSS Partner Technology Team (a.k.a. Delta Force) says so. It must be true.
In other news, sources not partnered with Microsoft announce that Microsoft's desktop market share has dipped down to 59%. Between Conficker and Internet banking exploits, it could happen.
Seriously, better check the BSA's definition of 'pirated'. Previous announcements like this turned out to classify any non-MS software as 'pirated'.
The penny-sized nuclear battery means that pocket watches won't have to change batteries.
Good. Hit a nerve there. de Icaza's behavior and statements leave no doubt that he acts and talks like a Microsoft shill. It's been obvious for a decade. It's been undeniable by even the most obtuse for years, especially since his anti-open standards statement to hinder ODF.
Microsoft should ask for its money back. de Icaza is a terrible troll.
de Icaza doesn't have to be good, he just has to make noise. That's the role of a troll. M$ only trots him out and yanks his leash when a distraction is needed. His bag of tricks consists of name calling, which works for press dependent Microsoft partner advertising money.
Or to distract from technical issues like quality and performance. Mono is very poor copy of Java and there are many other tools much further along that Mono can never catch up with including Ruby, Python, and Perl.
Maybe a distraction from Lisbon and Software Patents up Europe's backdoor? It's only Europe that is holding out still. Anything to distract from the freedom to use software. Technological independence is a pillar in modern democracy and of national independence. That's been dependent on both open source (inlcuding Free Software) and on open standards.
Richard Stallman from the USA, Edgar Villanueva from Peru, and many others have made the incontrovertable point that Miguel is actively fighting against. There are some very nasty legal names for what Miguel is doing to your country.
I didn't think it affected me either until I put a new copy of debian on a machine and did an "apt-get install gnome" and found a copy of mono being installed on my machine. What I want to know is WTF was debian even thinking when they did that? It's obvious they weren't thinking very well since they back-pedaled and claimed that mono wasn't in the default install, by which they mean that it's only in the gnome metapackage and not the gnome-core or gnome-desktop. It's also equally obvious that anyone who wants to install gnome will first try apt-get install gnome rather than the non-intuitive gnome-core. The point is that Mono is creeping into distributions ...
As a fellow Debian user, I too am incensed that Debian developers, without consulting the user base have taken a monumental leap away from the projects original stated goals and ideals. You now have a team of cockroaches inside the bread box: Eduard Bloch (Zomb), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Sebastian Dröge (slomo), Jo Shields (directhex), and David Paleino (hanska) somehow got into Debian and are spending their time to inject contaminate it with Microsoft imitations of legitimate technologies.
Again, if Miguel's time on earth is so precious short, WTF is he spending it encouraging people to reinvent the wheel using failed products? Mono needs to be removed from Debian. The mono team needs to be removed from Debian. If they want to continue their work, fine, but do it in Redmond far away from the from any Open Source or Free Software projects.
The whole fiasco also speaks volumes to how the trade journals have been whittled down, removed and controlled. Debian was high-tech, ethical when it came out. Now gNewSense fills that role. However, there's no reason to cede Debian to Microsoft, especially not since important distros are built from Debian. But that would be the main reason Microsoft activist have it as a target to ruin.
With the back-pedalling, Debian leadership shows it is aware of the problem. Next step is to do something. Right now it looks like a personnel problem with a small clique pushing their personal agenda where the monomaniacal goal is to shove M$ technology in every project in existence. It doesn't seem to matter to them if something is good quality or bad, efficient or inefficient, appropriate or not licensed with a clear safe license or not.
Mono is start to end a Microsoft technology. Those few individuals writing to defend mono must cease astroturfing and offer full disclosure as to their employment. M$ astroturfing is not tolerated.
Microsoft should ask for its money back. de Icaza is a terrible troll.
de Icaza doesn't have to be good, he just has to make noise. That's the role of a troll. M$ only trots him out and yanks his leash when a distraction is needed. His bag of tricks consists of name calling, which works for press dependent Microsoft partner advertising money.
Or to distract from technical issues like quality and performance. Mono is very poor copy of Java and there are many other tools much further along that Mono can never catch up with including Ruby, Python, and Perl.
Maybe a distraction from Lisbon and Software Patents up Europe's backdoor? It's only Europe that is holding out still. Anything to distract from the freedom to use software.
Technological independence is a pillar in modern democracy and of national independence. That's been dependent on both open source (inlcuding Free Software) and on open standards. Miguel is actively fighting against both and encouraging people to move away from both. There are some very nasty legal names for what Miguel is doing to your country.
I didn't think it affected me either until I put a new copy of debian on a machine and did an "apt-get install gnome" and found a copy of mono being installed on my machine. What I want to know is WTF was debian even thinking when they did that?
As a fellow Debian user, I too am incensed that Debian developers, without consulting the user base have taken a monumental leap away from the projects original stated goals and ideals. You now have a team of cockroaches inside the bread box: Eduard Bloch (Zomb), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Mirco Bauer (meebey), Sebastian Dröge (slomo), Jo Shields (directhex), and David Paleino (hanska) somehow got into Debian and are spending their time to inject contaminate it with Microsoft imitations of legitimate technologies.
Again, if Miguel's time on earth is so precious short, WTF is he spending it encouraging people to reinvent the wheel using failed products? Mono needs to be removed from Debian. The mono team needs to be removed from Debian.
The whole fiasco also speaks volumes to how the trade journals have been whittled down, removed and controlled. Debian was high-tech, ethical when it came out. Now gNewSense fills that role. However, there's no reason to cede Debian to Microsoft, especially not since important distros are built from Debian. But that would be the main reason Microsoft activist have it as a target to ruin.
Microsoft should ask for its money back. de Icaza is a terrible troll.
de Icaza doesn't have to be good, he just has to make noise. M$ only trots him out and yanks his leash when a distraction is needed.
Maybe a distraction from Lisbon and Software Patents up Europe's backdoor?
From all those cities listed in the report linked above, only Athens seems to have failed to properly exploit the effect of hosting the Olympic Games.
Athens was a big failure. Two problems that stand out in my memory are the clustefuck that was their transportation network and the audiences. The transportation was so bad that even some of the athletes missed their events. With Microsoft putting in a 'data center' in Chicago and whining about needing a too-big-to-fail handout, it's no wonder that the Olympic Committee had to steer away from Chicago.
You'll have to explain to us who the "crazy fuckers" are. Because I seem to remember it was a group of mostly Saudi's who happened to be fundamentalists (notice how I separate the two?!) that decided it would be a good idea to hijack our airplanes and ram them into our buildings.
You don't know that. You know that a group of mostly Saudis did ram three planes into three buildings. You don't know who decided that it would be a good idea. The investigation was cancelled partway into the initial phase.
Speculating on who decided is simply blowing hot air. For all you know, it could have been a false flag op or planned by Xe (formerly Backwater). All 2-bazillion pages of the Patriot Act were all ready to go and just waiting for an emergency, so there are more suspects than just some Saudis.
The article have very good point. However the hosting service blogger.com has really incompetent web designers and that really detracts from a fairly important post.
Can we pull the handful of competent web designers, that presumably once existed, out of retirement and have them clean up the major web sites?
This is getting tagged 'irony'
A little hint: Don't complain about use M$ in our posts or no one will take you seriously, especially when you fail to make a good point.
The "crime", if you want to call it that, is that after years of scuzzball tactics, FUD, lawsuits, smears, and namecalling ("linux is a cancer" ... remember that?), a true blue, died-in-the-wool authoritarian software vendor is posing as a "look-at-me-I'm-hip-now" open source software vendor, likely while trying to find yet another way to screw the real open source community. Judging by the way they structured their "open source" (to use the term veeeerrryy loosely) initiative, they seem to think that open source means "will do what we tell them for free", proving that they still don't get it.
RICO should cover most of M$ business models, past and present.
While you're at it, add up the total damage from the Windows malware per quarter. It's got the late Osama Bin Laden beat, hands down. There may well be a business case for air strikes against Redmond. Obviously that would be preceded by naval bombardment and followed by after-action mop up by ground units.
"...a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation." Doesn't look like it captures the OSS development spirit, to me...
The article is well-thought and well written. Though Andy uses longer, politer phrases to beat around the bush, M$ Code Pox, is a scam and misrepresentation. Even though we're not surprised by that behavior from M$ and its minions, we shouldn't put up with it. After all, ten years ago tech people laughed at M$, M$ products, M$ users and M$ boosters. however, they did nothing to stop the spread and now look at the big cleanup job before us.
There are just too many barriers to it ever becoming credible. Look at any of the required changes Andy mentions. This one in particular stands out:
No way that one can be overcome. M$ has long been using it's tactic of panel stacking to carry out its jihad. M$ representatives include those by proxy, such as those from sock-puppets and political action groups like Black Dork Software, Novell and others.
Then you have all the activists M$ has placed inside other companies. Juniper Networks, NComputing, Yahoo (especially via the board), Xensource are now saddled with M$ moles. That is just a sample, and each of those companies turned and started to toe the M$ party line after taking on one or more moles.
Now, you may ask, how is all this getting financed and who is underwriting it? The answer: each and every bastard who in any way is helping build or maintain M$ marketshare, that's who.
Indeed, it gives one great pause since that computer *should* have been running anti-virus software to check each download and executable as it was opened, and, presumably, would have caught this installation. Through professional contacts, I'm passingly familiar with the IT environment in a Big University Hospital and the hoops that my colleagues have to jump through to put a PC on the hospital network are near onerous. Those machines are sterile, or as close to sterile as humanly possible.
Don't be a shithead. E-Mail is not a replacement for a file system. Nor should hospitals be using systems that are even remotely succeptible to malware. Pretending otherwise or, worse, blaming the user for defective products is an M$ attitude. There are two underlying problems hidden:
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
2) Any self-respecting milter can strip ALL attachments automatically and delete them. MIMEDefang is a good example, but one of many. The stripping of attachments can even include a non-looping auto-reply to the sender including instructions on the correct way to transfer files.
Microsoft is following its normal behavior of ripping off other peoples ideas because they just don't have any of their own. This may have worked well in the past ( windows, office, etc. ) but it's not viable now, google are big enough to not be prone to Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics and google don't depend on microsoft's OS.
Microsoft have never been able to dominate without their unfair advantage and they are losing that. The stranglehold that kept MS in business for decades is now falling apart.
I predict a long protracted death for microsoft. And good riddance, I never liked their poor quality products or nasty business practices anyway.
It will take a solid push. Sadly, if you have M$ products in your network you have a personnel problem. That won't go away on its own. There are also dozens of M$ "interns" that are unaccounted for and will have be found and packed of to fields where they can't cause any harm either.
No one's ever liked the M$ products
Because any technical announcement anywhere in the world is followed by a "me, too!" from Bill Gates. Then after 3 to 6 years the half-trained monkeys have stolen or slapped together some crap with enough of a user interface to fool a few MBAs into thinking that MS might have an entry in that market.
(there are some long-time glitches though, like the "Adjusting Row Height" bug in Calc)
What is the bug number? Post it here.
And that's where you're wrong.
Like most US abominations, the DMCA is a US-only thing.
European laws prevent the adoption of any DMCA-like law in any country of the union. It does have something slightly similar though: circumvention is allowed unless it is done for illegal purposes; that means you're not allowed to spread information of how to break the protection of a certain service to render that protection ineffective and use the service for free, for example.
Well then you might want to contact your EU representatives and let them know. They appear to have gone and not only passed the EUCD . Since then, the member states have been scrambling over each other to make nasty implementations of the EUCD at home.
Besides, laws only apply to honest folk. The situation there at the BBC is that Microsoft toadies have been moving in and locking the BBC into anti-democratic technologies. M$ still hasn't made good on the legal obligations set by the European courts about media formats, players and browsers. All three violations come to play here in the BBC.
The time for putting up with Microsofters is over. They're killing services (e.g. BBC), jobs and the economy.