As states/governments/congresses around the world realize that they can do all their computing without paying Microsoft tax - money that flow out of the country.
Think about it: most of the countries in the world produce their own weapons: they don't want to depend on others. The same starts to come true about software, as it's importance in running the government/military is understood.
See previous/. articles about similar initiatives in France and Germany.
Well, it's easy to have the most money in the world: Sell one box of software for a truckload of t-shirts, a plane for a ship full of oil...
Lend money... Influence countries to buy from your corporations.
Americans perfected in the 20th century what English did since the 18th.
And, when the Europe was the center of the World, a convenient war sunk it into poverty. And who lend the money? USA. Who sold weapons to the English? USA. What was the only booming economy in the world during the war? USA. And after the war?
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code [snip] could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.
Hey, Jim! Who drove Netscape to bankruptcy by giving away software that competed directly with their own product?
I think somebody should sue that guy for his affirmations. How is it possible to go out and accuse somebody of doing something you did, with a straight face?
If this is the American Way then... How much is a ticket to Europe?
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Actually what is funny is that the parent article was modded "4: Insightful" while he asked a question answered in the article...
Microsoft is offering US$ ************* to any ISP that can turn in at least 500,000 users not using MSN.
As states/governments/congresses around the world realize that they can do all their computing without paying Microsoft tax - money that flow out of the country.
/. articles about similar initiatives in France and Germany.
Think about it: most of the countries in the world produce their own weapons: they don't want to depend on others. The same starts to come true about software, as it's importance in running the government/military is understood.
See previous
... and everybody knows by now that PIV sucks at floating point so it can't be.
Everybody knows that Apache HTTPD server is just a circumvention device :)
Perhaps Linus is jealous that someone has created a version of Unix that's highly userfriendly,
personal opinion about your intelligence deleted...
So far Linus has spent his time working on the kernel. Not user space programs. Not desktop environments. No user interfaces.
It's like saying Alfred Hitchcock envies Linus for havin such a successfull kernel...
Linus' interests (and his notion of "fun") have nothing to do with the user-friendlyness of a particular piece of software...
There's never been a time that you couldn't buy a computer without Windows...
Yes it was. I bought a Toshiba Laptop.
I think _any_ laptop that you buy has the Microsoft Tax on it.
Now YOU disgust me.
You are not supposed to use your work computer for anything else than business activities.
You haven't told us anything about your home power consumption...
Yeah.
His comments are: VI is so bloated, ed is so wonderful
.And: this bunch of punch cards is a perfect component model for me.
He did not bring anything usefull to the discussion, he just announces us that he doesn't care.
Well, 4 billion people don't care about Gnome 1.4 and yet they don't flood /. with their opinion.
Last time I checked, blatantly trying to buy a judge was illegal ;-)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
Why it seems everything these days is so cool in Canada?
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Oh, yes! Because of the North Pole!
I am a capitalist. I believe that companies should be able to make money.
I am a capitalist. I believe that companies should provide high-quality items to the market.
If they are good, they items will be bought...
There is no natural/God given/whatever right for a company to make money.
Companies that cannot produce something usefull should dissapear...
No it won't.
Because if the UK company wants to _SELL_ anything in the US, it better comply with all the laws and regulations of the US.
And if you need an example: It is legal to sell crack in the Netherlands but if a company from Amsterdam wants to sell it to US...
Apparently they have good IP rights lawyers...
You are heir to thousands of year of Western culture (do the names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Solomon, Moses, et al mean anything to you?)
Hmm, excuse me, doc!
Let's see: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: greeks. Solomon, Moses: hebrews. Who is the Westerner here?
"et al" must be it.
few well known con artists
Again: Jesus was poor(*), Mahommed was poor(*), Buddha ran from his wealth into the poverty(*)
Show me a religios text that says: "get rich quick - make your followers give you money".
For a real troll you use the term quite frequently...
(*)poor as in no earthly possessions.
How successful do you think a modern TV would be if it took 20-30 seconds before the user could do anything?
Very successful, I can assure you. I know some people with higher uptimes on their TV's that their Windows boxen :)
Whoaaa! Imagine how much we will save on Firewire cables...
I just want to point out that your mother doesn't care about the "easyness to program". She cares about the e-mail and some web shopping.
Programmers are not the majority of computer users...
Well, it's easy to have the most money in the world: Sell one box of software for a truckload of t-shirts, a plane for a ship full of oil...
Lend money... Influence countries to buy from your corporations.
Americans perfected in the 20th century what English did since the 18th.
And, when the Europe was the center of the World, a convenient war sunk it into poverty. And who lend the money? USA. Who sold weapons to the English? USA. What was the only booming economy in the world during the war? USA. And after the war?
Get a clue...
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code [snip] could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.
Hey, Jim! Who drove Netscape to bankruptcy by giving away software that competed directly with their own product?
I think somebody should sue that guy for his affirmations. How is it possible to go out and accuse somebody of doing something you did, with a straight face?
If this is the American Way then... How much is a ticket to Europe?
You obviously don't have a clue what market pressure actually means.
It is not people in the streets revolting because you did not deliver: is the marketeers...
Scrabble is a good non-zero sum game. It makes you to explore a world that many people don't go too often: the words.
How many words do you use in a day?
When I came in US I was amazed on how many misspelings people made, and the fact that this was seen as normal: I am an awful speller. was the excuse.
I was amazed because as a non-native English speaker I was able to spot and correct a lot of these...
And somebody was making smart posts about poor education in Brazil in some other thread.
Sorry to interrupt you.
I live in USA (although not born here) and I have two computers and a laptop. And I lived two years without TV!!!
Why? I went to a friend's house to watch the Olimpics and I got sick of commercials and all that crap.
Of course we go out to see a movie from time to time and rent a DVD at Blockbuster.
But we do just fine without a tv.
Well, check out sapdb at www.sapdb.org.
It will be GPLed soon.
Why not store a XML document as a directory?
If you have a reasonably fast filesystem.
That would be really cool!