The "Halloween" documents the partent is referring to are leaked memos from Microsoft that give an inside look at the way MS conducts itself when noone's watching. The whole series can be found here. If you've never read them, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes taking a look. Very insightful stuff. =]
Sorry, but that's nowhere near correct. I was just trying to stress test our newly-colocated server. What better way than to provide a service to the slashdot community at the same time? It's too bad people like you don't have the balls to post with your real usernames.
This sounds like nothing more than a false sense a security. I imagine that the damage done by making people think that the information they're sending is protected far outweighs the gains from preventing a small amount of casual forwarders. I'd rather people just rely on better meathods of distributing information.
Why does this seem so impossible? Has MS not already proven their motives and undying willingness to do whatever it takes to stay on top - at the expense of others? Is it not also clear that MS's biggest enemy at this point in time is Linux? As far as your list of assumptions goes, the first are already happening..NET is already becoming successful. Mono will be quick to follow. Patents or not, that's all it will take to give MS all the control they need to instill serious doubts into the minds of people who don't have long-term experience with GNU/linux. I think this is a very valid concern with less paranoia involved than you think.
Slashdot Mirror
The "Halloween" documents the partent is referring to are leaked memos from Microsoft that give an inside look at the way MS conducts itself when noone's watching. The whole series can be found here. If you've never read them, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes taking a look. Very insightful stuff. =]
Sorry, but that's nowhere near correct. I was just trying to stress test our newly-colocated server. What better way than to provide a service to the slashdot community at the same time?
It's too bad people like you don't have the balls to post with your real usernames.
Mirror here: http://www.silenceisdefeat.org/mirrors/www.smh.com .au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412234274.html
I'm assuming most of that was a joke.
But as far as packaging standardization goes... WTF do you think Debian is, dumbass?
I've been using Windows since 3.1 and I didn't notice any "idiocy when it comes to knowledge of the Windows OS"... could you point some out for me?
This sounds like nothing more than a false sense a security.
I imagine that the damage done by making people think that the information they're sending is protected far outweighs the gains from preventing a small amount of casual forwarders.
I'd rather people just rely on better meathods of distributing information.
Why does this seem so impossible? Has MS not already proven their motives and undying willingness to do whatever it takes to stay on top - at the expense of others? Is it not also clear that MS's biggest enemy at this point in time is Linux? .NET is already becoming successful. Mono will be quick to follow. Patents or not, that's all it will take to give MS all the control they need to instill serious doubts into the minds of people who don't have long-term experience with GNU/linux.
As far as your list of assumptions goes, the first are already happening.
I think this is a very valid concern with less paranoia involved than you think.
Does this also apply to DotGNU? How do Mono and DotGNU compare?
Gosh, I guess this technology is useless then since no one needs to use their laptop in the car or on planes... oh wait.