Maybe, but it all can be summed up in a single reason: There is quite simply a certain, undeniable, inescapable inevitability to OSS. Its growth is slow, steady, and seemingly unstoppable. At some point, it will reach the "tipping point". Then, its growth will be exponential.
It hard to imagine this whole thing just blowing over.
Did you catch those? First, at the beginning of the produced vignettes, he's sitting in a theater with a video camera. Later in one of his song parodies, he jokingly complains about how long it took to download "LOTR, Return of the King". Only slightly esoteric, but sometjing that's apparently on the minds of people in the Hollywood community.
How many people have trouble finding files on their hard drive using the most basic search criteria. People who are so unorganized as to lose files on their hard drive are probably not sophisticated enough to use advanced search methods successfully.
Just before the SCO suit is about to be thrown out of court, Microsoft buys SCO and releases all their UNIX IP under the GPL -
1. Making the question of the suit's validity moot forever. 2. Convincing the World they are committed to open standards and deflecting all suspicion. 3. Forcing Sun to release all their derivative Solaris code under the GPL and "Cutting off their air supply".
... and for the overwhelming majority:I'm scared shit. Pure and simple.
I once bowled with a guy that had his own business. He was dumber than most small kitchen appliances. (He needed long addition to keep score!) I asked myself, I said self - what does he have that I don't. Answer: He was too stupid to be afraid of all the things that can go wrong. Even though he wasn't nearly smart enough to prevent them from going wrong, they just didn't. Most of us suffer from paralysis from analysis.
... at a home improvement trade show. Not capable of display but of varying the opacity of the glass, thus obviating blinds or shades. Man, they were expensive. About $5,000 for a typical window! I figured by now, I'd at least see them available them in cars. Flying cars.
Domino will run on Linux, but I don't think Lotus makes a Notes client. I've recently wondered why. Maybe IBM would just assume dump it than port it to Linux. Fine with me. The most horrible software ever made.
OK, every Win<NT | 2000 | XP> install has a built-in local "Administrator" account without the password set. Is this what he's talking about? It's only a secret if you don't know about it. If he's talking about something else, well then, to me, it is a secret.
The only thing better than no polling data is unreliable poll results that nobody beleives. Then, we're all stuck having to make up our own minds rather than follow the bleating flock just to affirm the polls.
Yeah, we should have ignored Iraq until it was too late. Just like we ignored Afghanistan until it was too late. We can't be enforcing treaties like those that were agreed to after the Pursian Gulf war. The rest of the world might get the impression we won't accept being screwed and lied to.
I think we got off easy on September 11, 2001. I expect one day in my lifetime, everything south of Canal street will be leveled.
The E-Z Pass comes with a mylar/metallic bag (looks like a typical anti-static bag) in which you can place the unit if you don't want it to be detected (e.g., if you elect to pay cash at the toll booth you won't be charged on your EZ Pass account). That's why I just place it on the dash when I go through a toll, then I put it away.
The Justice Dept. won the case but couldn't come up witha viable remedy and, therefore, effectively lost. The remedy of vertical breakup was knee-jerk, uncreative, ineffectual, unfair, and based on 20th century cases (e.g. Standard Oil, AT&T).
There's no law against a monopoly, only leveraging and abusing it. How does MS abuse their Windows and Office monopolies? In the case of IE, they diverted hundred's of millions of $s to develop a browser they would give away for free, thus "cutting off Netscape's air supply". Who could afford to do that? Who can afford to fund billions in dozens of money losing projects, business endevours, and acquisitions from the profits from two product lines?
You want a remedy? Severely limit the amount of profit they can divert to dominating new markets from the markets they already dominate. You'd have seen no MSN, Xbox, MediaPlayer, C#,.Net, etc.
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... we've has demonstrated we can piss money away better than the most corrupt government agencies and have virtually no progress to show for it.
"They don't have to make the "world's greatest," they just have to make something that is competitively passable, ..."
Oh, well, if they make it that good, they'll be able to justify micropayments to Passport: "Our customers asked us for that feature."
Maybe, but it all can be summed up in a single reason: There is quite simply a certain, undeniable, inescapable inevitability to OSS. Its growth is slow, steady, and seemingly unstoppable. At some point, it will reach the "tipping point". Then, its growth will be exponential.
It hard to imagine this whole thing just blowing over.
"P.S.- At two different points in my life I did serious perl scripting. Now, I can't remember a darn thing."
Well, if it was way back in the late '50s, I could understand. Perl has changed a lot since then.
I'd be ashamed to send an email that was that poorly written to a business associate at any level. And I'd have less regard for anyone who wood. :-)
With claimed revenue of $20K FROM Linux user licences. That's one way to run a business.
Did you catch those? First, at the beginning of the produced vignettes, he's sitting in a theater with a video camera. Later in one of his song parodies, he jokingly complains about how long it took to download "LOTR, Return of the King". Only slightly esoteric, but sometjing that's apparently on the minds of people in the Hollywood community.
... "The reason we don't collaborate with Sun is that they're too small," ...
<sarcasm>Yeah, Sun is not a player.</sarcasm> How big do you have to be for IBM to collaborate with you?
They also called GNU an operating system, and they still have Linus working at Transmeta.
How many people have trouble finding files on their hard drive using the most basic search criteria. People who are so unorganized as to lose files on their hard drive are probably not sophisticated enough to use advanced search methods successfully.
... the practice will never be widely adopted because it's a reversal of the trend. How many kids today are learning arithmetic without a calculator.
That would make the paraphrase a derivative work of the quotation. There's trouble.
... you'd think someone would have written a "Dummies" book for the Astrolabe.
Just before the SCO suit is about to be thrown out of court, Microsoft buys SCO and releases all their UNIX IP under the GPL -
1. Making the question of the suit's validity moot forever.
2. Convincing the World they are committed to open standards and deflecting all suspicion.
3. Forcing Sun to release all their derivative Solaris code under the GPL and "Cutting off their air supply".
... and for the overwhelming majority:I'm scared shit. Pure and simple.
I once bowled with a guy that had his own business. He was dumber than most small kitchen appliances. (He needed long addition to keep score!) I asked myself, I said self - what does he have that I don't. Answer: He was too stupid to be afraid of all the things that can go wrong. Even though he wasn't nearly smart enough to prevent them from going wrong, they just didn't. Most of us suffer from paralysis from analysis.
Whenever I use one of my Windows PCs. He must be satisfied with it, otherwise he would see that it be improved. But he doesn't. You get what he wants.
Ah, to be an audio/visual nerd again.
Interesting article. Since the Cold War is over, and Al Quaida live in caves there's some great fodder for Tom Clancy.
... at a home improvement trade show. Not capable of display but of varying the opacity of the glass, thus obviating blinds or shades. Man, they were expensive. About $5,000 for a typical window! I figured by now, I'd at least see them available them in cars. Flying cars.
Domino will run on Linux, but I don't think Lotus makes a Notes client. I've recently wondered why. Maybe IBM would just assume dump it than port it to Linux. Fine with me. The most horrible software ever made.
OK, every Win<NT | 2000 | XP> install has a built-in local "Administrator" account without the password set. Is this what he's talking about? It's only a secret if you don't know about it. If he's talking about something else, well then, to me, it is a secret.
The only thing better than no polling data is unreliable poll results that nobody beleives. Then, we're all stuck having to make up our own minds rather than follow the bleating flock just to affirm the polls.
Yeah, we should have ignored Iraq until it was too late. Just like we ignored Afghanistan until it was too late. We can't be enforcing treaties like those that were agreed to after the Pursian Gulf war. The rest of the world might get the impression we won't accept being screwed and lied to.
I think we got off easy on September 11, 2001. I expect one day in my lifetime, everything south of Canal street will be leveled.
The E-Z Pass comes with a mylar/metallic bag (looks like a typical anti-static bag) in which you can place the unit if you don't want it to be detected (e.g., if you elect to pay cash at the toll booth you won't be charged on your EZ Pass account). That's why I just place it on the dash when I go through a toll, then I put it away.
The Justice Dept. won the case but couldn't come up witha viable remedy and, therefore, effectively lost. The remedy of vertical breakup was knee-jerk, uncreative, ineffectual, unfair, and based on 20th century cases (e.g. Standard Oil, AT&T).
.Net, etc.
There's no law against a monopoly, only leveraging and abusing it. How does MS abuse their Windows and Office monopolies? In the case of IE, they diverted hundred's of millions of $s to develop a browser they would give away for free, thus "cutting off Netscape's air supply". Who could afford to do that? Who can afford to fund billions in dozens of money losing projects, business endevours, and acquisitions from the profits from two product lines?
You want a remedy? Severely limit the amount of profit they can divert to dominating new markets from the markets they already dominate. You'd have seen no MSN, Xbox, MediaPlayer, C#,