I was in Copenhagen in the middle of a huge crowded square. There was a public bathroom that I went in to use. On a table was an unprotected plate of money with a sign that said something to the effect of "please donate 25 Kroner for the use of these facilities". After I did my business, I dropped my money on the plate and walked back out into the crowded square.
All of Microsoft's 55,000 employees use Exchange running on Windows. If there are Suns being used at Microsoft, it is definitely not for corporate email. I personally migrated an Oracle system running on Sun to SQL Server on Windows 2000 Server. This was at an acquired website. So while it is true that at one time you may have found a Sun at Microsoft, it is becoming increasingly rare, or may even be non-existent by now. Use of FreeBSD on x86 at acquired companies (Hotmail, LinkExchange) was much more prevalent.
There is absolutely no situation today that would compel anyone at Microsoft to actually buy a Sun to run a mission critical app.
Users need to take the proper precaution. They can't NOT know how to drive and drive a car, crash, and blame the car company. They can't leave their doors unlocked and complain about stolen valuables.
The requirements on software are even more onerous. It's a utility used in much more intentionally hostile environment where people all over the world are intent on taking over his/her computer from afar.
That is why S-VHS serves only a small part of the market.
That is why many people who buy DVD players mistakenly hook them up through the composite video cable even though their receiver can handle component video cable.
Don't like the licensing terms? Don't like the product. Don't f!@#ing buy it! You whiners make it sound like Msft is forcing you to buy and eat a shit sandwich.
Although you may have trouble convincing your friends and family not to buy it.
We were forced to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3 because we could no longer find a hardware vendor that would sell us new hardware that would also support FreeBSD 3.2.
So we had to expend "time, effort, and work involved in moving an entire codebase from platform x to y, and being forced to do so over and over again every two or three years at the behest of one's vendors"
"Customers are clueless"
Hmmm. If there was a distillation of an attitude that perfectly characterized why Microsoft continues to dominate over open source, this is it.
You, the open source advocate, have internalized as simple fact that Microsoft products are necessarily inferior and that Microsoft engineers are necessarily non-innovative, that it can't ever be the fact that customers may actually prefer Microsoft products! It must be the case that if customers choose Microsoft products, it is because they are clueless.
And therefore, the task at hand for the open source advocate that wants to increase his/her marketshare is to create self awareness among the unwashed masses that they are indeed clueless.
God speed. Go forth and conquer.
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I was in Copenhagen in the middle of a huge crowded square. There was a public bathroom that I went in to use. On a table was an unprotected plate of money with a sign that said something to the effect of "please donate 25 Kroner for the use of these facilities". After I did my business, I dropped my money on the plate and walked back out into the crowded square.
All of Microsoft's 55,000 employees use Exchange running on Windows. If there are Suns being used at Microsoft, it is definitely not for corporate email. I personally migrated an Oracle system running on Sun to SQL Server on Windows 2000 Server. This was at an acquired website. So while it is true that at one time you may have found a Sun at Microsoft, it is becoming increasingly rare, or may even be non-existent by now. Use of FreeBSD on x86 at acquired companies (Hotmail, LinkExchange) was much more prevalent.
There is absolutely no situation today that would compel anyone at Microsoft to actually buy a Sun to run a mission critical app.
Users need to take the proper precaution. They can't NOT know how to drive and drive a car, crash, and blame the car company. They can't leave their doors unlocked and complain about stolen valuables.
The requirements on software are even more onerous. It's a utility used in much more intentionally hostile environment where people all over the world are intent on taking over his/her computer from afar.
As in the life of a middle-aged man who still has a roommate? A roommate that comes with an 18 year old son no less?
How the hell do you think the worm got into the internal network?
Exactly.
That is why S-VHS serves only a small part of the market.
That is why many people who buy DVD players mistakenly hook them up through the composite video cable even though their receiver can handle component video cable.
Have you heard of PowerQuest Partition Magic? It can resize NTFS partitions and convert them as well.
Not a free product, but you couldn't do that work without having NTFS documentation.
See CNN link...
MA AG in conflict of interest over Microsoft appeal
blah...
'nuff said
any takers?
"...
Unfortunately this article is
comparing apples and oranges.
The Win32 call you need to use is
CreatePipe(), not CreateNamedPipe().
CreatePipe is exactly equivalent to
the UNIX pipe() call. CreateNamedPipe
with the \\pipe prefix is equivalent
to mkfifo on UNIX.
No wonder Win32 is much slower, you're
going through many more layers in the
kernel.
Regards,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team."
Don't like the licensing terms? Don't like the product. Don't f!@#ing buy it! You whiners make it sound like Msft is forcing you to buy and eat a shit sandwich.
Although you may have trouble convincing your friends and family not to buy it.
If you don't agree to the terms of the license, don't friggin' buy it for chrissakes!
I think you are in need of some professional help.
You go girl!
We were forced to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3 because we could no longer find a hardware vendor that would sell us new hardware that would also support FreeBSD 3.2.
So we had to expend "time, effort, and work involved in moving an entire codebase from platform x to y, and being forced to do so over and over again every two or three years at the behest of one's vendors"
"Customers are clueless"
Hmmm. If there was a distillation of an attitude that perfectly characterized why Microsoft continues to dominate over open source, this is it.
You, the open source advocate, have internalized as simple fact that Microsoft products are necessarily inferior and that Microsoft engineers are necessarily non-innovative, that it can't ever be the fact that customers may actually prefer Microsoft products! It must be the case that if customers choose Microsoft products, it is because they are clueless.
And therefore, the task at hand for the open source advocate that wants to increase his/her marketshare is to create self awareness among the unwashed masses that they are indeed clueless.
God speed. Go forth and conquer.