There is already 2 variations of the.net sdk & libraries on multiple platforms. 1. There is the Mono framework which can host.net apps on things from Windows to the OS/390 2. There is the Silverlight framework which can host Silverlight apps on MacOS and soon to be Linux.
Heh - Thats only if you took the that route for windows development. You do not have to use Visual Studio to program for Windows, and you are perfectly fine using open-source tools to build windows apps. Many of us have been doing it for years.
You could have done the following: 1. Download BloodShed IDE with MingGW 2. Download GStreamer
When you pay that "fee". You are buying yourself the ability to either call somebody or email. Most have an incident support. When you pay that 150 dollars for Windows XP, you are *not* buying a support package for Win XP. If you have development issues, MS isn't going to be helping you for free.
All in all, OSS SUPPORT fee's are on-par with Commercial support. this is a non-story.
Actually, the car anaogy fits, your logic is flawed. Roads to Cars would match Electrical Current to Computers. not roads to "Software". A mercede's computer software isn't going to run on a Ferraris's (Yes, car's have quite abit of software in them now).
You cannot take *most* parts out of a Ferrari and lump them into a Toyota or Nissan. yes, some things are *similar*, but not entirely compatible.
Non-technical managers can run a great tech company. I've worked at technical and non-technical companies that had technical and non-technical management. The answer isn't black & white. Where non-technical management run afoul, is when they read the "Dummies" book, or take a single class at their community college, or read an article and decide on that organizations technical direction. The greatest non-technical management I've worked for is ones that balance their decision making by seeking out answers from proven advisors in those areas. The WORST I've seen is the same situation, but the "proven advisor" was just another sales guy that read the same article.
For more information, the DOJ has posted an article on its site talking about the sting. It's *old*, but still relevant for those that are new to the topic. http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_ crm_263. htm
Not to be nit-picky, but... what the heck. The light-bulb was most certainly an American invention: Heinrich Göbel emigrated to the US in 1849, he didn't build the first lightbulb until 1854. So technically he *was* an American at that point.
IBM & GE both always gets out of any business line that has turned into a cheap commodity; its just good business. Nowadays, you can get a business workstation class PC on the cheap from most grocery store chains, and it simply isn't worth-wile to compete in that space anymore as innovation in the x86 market has been consolidated down to a few key players. IBM is slowly transitioning itself in the 86 space to a services/support/development power-house.
"He who has the most developers at the end of the day, wins the game".
Yes it was and is Free Software. However with the Open version you are required to GPL any software you compile with it. they have a dual license model, very similar to mySQL
The "Govt" already had that, it was called Bio-warfare and disease manufacturing. Problem is, stupid people keep migrating places and spreading the disease.
The only problem with that kind of solution, is *somebody* would have to maintain control so the files. Otherwise, the Spammers could just join-up and change the files. The problem with somebody controlling the files is, the spammers will just DDOS that person off the net. So you're back to a lose-lose situation. However, somebody *could* modify the peer-to-peer to maintain some sort of hash-code of the files and reject changes.. but it would be complicated at the least.
Many bad things could come from something like this.
1. An end to corporate involement with innovation. 2. Bad standards.
You have to remember, there are TONS of conflicting standards out there, plenty of standards bodies out there... WHo is going to set the standards for the standards bodies then?
Also, if people didn't break some standards and go off on a tangent, how would we get improvement?
You are WAY off. The SCO Tradename/mark was not acquired by Caldera. The SCO Group sold the Server software Divisions and Professional Services Divisions to Caldera and along with them went the name. The SCO Group then HAD to change their name to Tarantella Inc (ie. the only product line they had left then which came from a previous aquisition). Caldera just recently won their anit-trust lawsuit AGAINST microsoft, where do you get that they are a susidiary???
I don't think MS would ever buy Sun. The Gov't wouldn't allow that to happen. And even if they got bought out (did I say that?), since Sun is sooooo Global; Europe would definately not all that.
IBM picking up Java would be a wonderful thing. IBM is one of the most active of vendors, and has a great app server. I don't know what your doing, but I've been able to get non IBM clients to connect to WAS.
I don't see how/why they should have it both ways. What I'm saying is, why should they be allowed to make money off another musicians work and then scream when somebody downloads their music for free? Yes, they thought is "but it's only a 'sample' of the other song". I don't think that matters one bit though. If you play, you pay.. one way or the other. Or nobody should pay.
You are incorrect. The "browser component" as you call it of MOzilla is a full and complete product. It's a "component" of the Mozzilla quite of products; but a product nevertheless.
Is it just me, but is anybody else tired of all these screenshots looking the same? Every distribution has the same screenshots and all that's ever different is the lower left hand corner icon on the 'Start' button. Linux distro's need to emphasize more on what they've done different from the other distro's, not show that their the same. Otherwise where is the value-ad to cut over?
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I think the guy has enough problems with fixing our problems in America than to worry about Open Source software.
I don't see anywhere on the site where they promise anything, or did I miss it?
There is already 2 variations of the .net sdk & libraries on multiple platforms. .net apps on things from Windows to the OS/390
1. There is the Mono framework which can host
2. There is the Silverlight framework which can host Silverlight apps on MacOS and soon to be Linux.
Heh - Thats only if you took the that route for windows development. You do not have to use
Visual Studio to program for Windows, and you are perfectly fine using open-source tools to
build windows apps. Many of us have been doing it for years.
You could have done the following:
1. Download BloodShed IDE with MingGW
2. Download GStreamer
Done.
When you pay that "fee". You are buying yourself the ability to either call somebody or email. Most have an incident support.
When you pay that 150 dollars for Windows XP, you are *not* buying a support package for Win XP. If you have development issues, MS isn't going to be helping you for free.
All in all, OSS SUPPORT fee's are on-par with Commercial support. this is a non-story.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see NonStop or True64 or HP/UX under a GPL license?
Actually, the car anaogy fits, your logic is flawed.
Roads to Cars would match Electrical Current to Computers. not roads to "Software". A mercede's computer software isn't going to run on a Ferraris's (Yes, car's have quite abit of software in them now).
You cannot take *most* parts out of a Ferrari and lump them into a Toyota or Nissan. yes, some things are *similar*, but not entirely compatible.
Non-technical managers can run a great tech company. I've worked at technical and non-technical companies that had technical and non-technical management. The answer isn't black & white. Where non-technical management run afoul, is when they read the "Dummies" book, or take a single class at their community college, or read an article and decide on that organizations technical direction. The greatest non-technical management I've worked for is ones that balance their decision making by seeking out answers from proven advisors in those areas. The WORST I've seen is the same situation, but the "proven advisor" was just another sales guy that read the same article.
For more information, the DOJ has posted an article on its site talking about the sting. It's *old*, but still relevant for those that are new to the topic._ crm_263. htm
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04
Not to be nit-picky, but ... what the heck. The light-bulb was most certainly an American invention:
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Heinrich Göbel emigrated to the US in 1849, he didn't build the first lightbulb until 1854. So technically he *was* an American at that point.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Heinr
IBM & GE both always gets out of any business line that has turned into a cheap commodity; its just good business. Nowadays, you can get a business workstation class PC on the cheap from most grocery store chains, and it simply isn't worth-wile to compete in that space anymore as innovation in the x86 market has been consolidated down to a few key players. IBM is slowly transitioning itself in the 86 space to a services/support/development power-house.
"He who has the most developers at the end of the day, wins the game".
Yes it was and is Free Software. However with the Open version you are required to GPL any software you compile with it. they have a dual license model, very similar to mySQL
The "Govt" already had that, it was called Bio-warfare and disease manufacturing. Problem is, stupid people keep migrating places and spreading the disease.
1. Collect Junk .....???? ... seriously, what in the WORLD would you need all this for?
2. Post Ebay Link on SlashDot
3.
4. Profit!
You could always try doing a Denial Of Service attack with that pesky 127.0.0.1
Not to split hairs here. but Wrong :) Linux is a kernel, a distribution is an operating system :)
THis little guy is going to revolutionize the voyeur porn industry.. .....more and more and more
- Just think of the shoe-cam
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Well actually, the SCO Unix was formally Microsoft Unix. so it's still a SCO / Microsoft thread :)
The only problem with that kind of solution, is *somebody* would have to maintain control so the files. Otherwise, the Spammers could just join-up and change the files. The problem with somebody controlling the files is, the spammers will just DDOS that person off the net. So you're back to a lose-lose situation.
However, somebody *could* modify the peer-to-peer to maintain some sort of hash-code of the files and reject changes.. but it would be complicated at the least.
Many bad things could come from something like this.
1. An end to corporate involement with innovation.
2. Bad standards.
You have to remember, there are TONS of conflicting standards out there, plenty of standards bodies out there... WHo is going to set the standards for the standards bodies then?
Also, if people didn't break some standards and go off on a tangent, how would we get improvement?
You are WAY off. The SCO Tradename/mark was not acquired by Caldera. The SCO Group sold the Server software Divisions and Professional Services Divisions to Caldera and along with them went the name. The SCO Group then HAD to change their name to Tarantella Inc (ie. the only product line they had left then which came from a previous aquisition).
Caldera just recently won their anit-trust lawsuit AGAINST microsoft, where do you get that they are a susidiary???
I don't think MS would ever buy Sun. The Gov't wouldn't allow that to happen. And even if they got bought out (did I say that?), since Sun is sooooo Global; Europe would definately not all that.
IBM picking up Java would be a wonderful thing. IBM is one of the most active of vendors, and has a great app server. I don't know what your doing, but I've been able to get non IBM clients to connect to WAS.
I don't see how/why they should have it both ways. What I'm saying is, why should they be allowed to make money off another musicians work and then scream when somebody downloads their music for free? Yes, they thought is "but it's only a 'sample' of the other song". I don't think that matters one bit though. If you play, you pay.. one way or the other. Or nobody should pay.
You are incorrect. The "browser component" as you call it of MOzilla is a full and complete product. It's a "component" of the Mozzilla quite of products; but a product nevertheless.
Is it just me, but is anybody else tired of all these screenshots looking the same? Every distribution has the same screenshots and all that's ever different is the lower left hand corner icon on the 'Start' button. Linux distro's need to emphasize more on what they've done different from the other distro's, not show that their the same. Otherwise where is the value-ad to cut over?