This story is something that would probably better fit as a comment, or at least be verified. This is just some story submission by a dumb bastard who didn't thoroughly research the subject ("cd/Applications/iTunes.app/ && ls" works wonders) before he submitted it, and had it approved by some person (evidently you) who didn't bother to do anything before clicking the "Post it to Slashdot!" button.
Or perhaps Apple just had the crazy notion to discuss the cocoa analogues to the Win32 API in the hopes of attracting more developers into porting their apps to OS X.
No Win32 with an interest in their prosperity is going to drop the holy grail for the styrofoam cup.
I don't know of any large enterprise that is worth dealing with for Microsoft would actually use Lindows.
When you care about your business, you don't buy a crescent wrench to use as a hammer. Any business in their right mind that relies on Microsoft software is going to run that software on Windows.
I wonder if this article was written by an armchair Linux enthusiast with the ever infamous penguin tunnel vision. Linux is great for workgroups and closets, and it absolutely sucks in the enterprise. No decent distributed user store (OpenLDAP is NOT decent for production enterprise environments, nor is 'scp/etc/passwd remoteserver:/etc'), not enough clustering and fault tolerance support, poor choices for centralized management, etc.
You need a fucking paid subscription to read this article. Why even bother submitting it to Slashdot, as most certainly a large majority of its readers don't have a paid subscription.
Is this some new security list in the style of Bugtraq, or yet another example of the submitter/slashdot staff not bothering to actually check the facts and spellcheck their stories before being submitted?
There is a technical term for what is being asked for. It's called disclosed source code, not Open Source.
No, actually it's called "shared source". YOU call it "disclosed source code". The title is "open the Windows source code"... similar to "open the window, i just farted", or "open up the box". Nowhere did anything or anyone say "*open source* Windows" in the philisophical sense.
You're stating the obvious from the article, so I can only assume your comment got mindlessly modded up because you're "Bruce Perens", and so you MUST have something important to say, even if it's just rehashing the article and should have been moderated "Redundant".
Sun has the same oppressive, megalomaniacal practices that Microsoft does. They're just pissed because they can't win in the market.
With Sun, you get the same business practices, but with virtually unusable (unless your IT dept happens to be greatly overstaffed and rich) technology behind it.
Good to see, there are several facets of it that I absolutely love.
Now only if they could speed up the network and disk I/O to the levels of FreeBSD. Oh, and SMP would be great, too, but according to the OpenBSD developers, that's not a hot project of theirs.
So until then, I still keep a watchful eye, and a PC in the closet where it belongs with the latest version installed as a toy to play around with.
Gargamel - Bill Gates Azriel - Steve Ballmer Papa Smurf - Richard Stallman Vanity Smurf - John Katz Brainy Smurf - CowboyNeal (whoever the fuck he is) Smurfette - Natalie Portman
Right, and as we all know Sendmail, NFS/RPC and BIND have been pinnacles of bulletproof security. I won't even go into the concept of UNIX security.
Also, you might want to actually read what the certification means, instead of just pulling some meaning out of your ass. It's the least you could do before submitting a story on it...
- If the group of linux geeks grows to more than just a miniscule, fringe group
- Open source coders develop developer & platform tools as robust as those offered by the likes of Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, etc. Right now, nothing approaches these folks, and only a fool IT manager would literally "Bet the bank" on unaccountable, open source technologies.
Don't get me wrong, noncommercial open source is great, but it just doesn't make sense in some areas. There's no aggressive development cycle, and no real accountability.
I wish people would stop bitching about their obscure browsers not working with this or that...
One has to wonder what kind of SEC fun Slashdot would get if the SEC were to pay attention.
Slashdot, owned by a publicly-held company, frequently posting highly inaccurate stories about other publicly-held companies to a technology industry audience, that could potentially damage a company's reputation and/or profit.
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This is a great.... blog entry, thanks Slashdot!
When will we get the "Story Moderation" feature in Slashcode? I look forward to the day.
This is why we should move to IPv6 ASAP.
This story is something that would probably better fit as a comment, or at least be verified. This is just some story submission by a dumb bastard who didn't thoroughly research the subject ("cd /Applications/iTunes.app/ && ls" works wonders) before he submitted it, and had it approved by some person (evidently you) who didn't bother to do anything before clicking the "Post it to Slashdot!" button.
This isn't news, factual, OR interesting.
But, have a merry Christmas anyways.
Or perhaps Apple just had the crazy notion to discuss the cocoa analogues to the Win32 API in the hopes of attracting more developers into porting their apps to OS X.
No Win32 with an interest in their prosperity is going to drop the holy grail for the styrofoam cup.
Transmeta is a fucking business for God's sake, not Greenpeace.
They came up with a crappy business plan at the wrong time, and natural selection is taking care of it. Why try screwing the process up?
This is hardly insightful. It was a COD order, dipshit.
For someone who's apparently into usability, they sure know how to make things utterly unreadable. What a tool.
I'll pass on this interview (that is after I click this submit button). I'm not going to read this horribly formatted shit.
I hope this comment meets whatever anal specs he requires.
Whew! I was scared... for a second I thought this article was going to say that ISS hires black hats...
But as we all know, that's just ludicrous, right?
I don't know of any large enterprise that is worth dealing with for Microsoft would actually use Lindows.
/etc/passwd remoteserver:/etc'), not enough clustering and fault tolerance support, poor choices for centralized management, etc.
When you care about your business, you don't buy a crescent wrench to use as a hammer. Any business in their right mind that relies on Microsoft software is going to run that software on Windows.
I wonder if this article was written by an armchair Linux enthusiast with the ever infamous penguin tunnel vision. Linux is great for workgroups and closets, and it absolutely sucks in the enterprise. No decent distributed user store (OpenLDAP is NOT decent for production enterprise environments, nor is 'scp
You need a fucking paid subscription to read this article. Why even bother submitting it to Slashdot, as most certainly a large majority of its readers don't have a paid subscription.
Is this some new security list in the style of Bugtraq, or yet another example of the submitter/slashdot staff not bothering to actually check the facts and spellcheck their stories before being submitted?
There is a technical term for what is being asked for. It's called disclosed source code, not Open Source.
No, actually it's called "shared source". YOU call it "disclosed source code". The title is "open the Windows source code"... similar to "open the window, i just farted", or "open up the box". Nowhere did anything or anyone say "*open source* Windows" in the philisophical sense.
You're stating the obvious from the article, so I can only assume your comment got mindlessly modded up because you're "Bruce Perens", and so you MUST have something important to say, even if it's just rehashing the article and should have been moderated "Redundant".
Jesus Christ, this is probably one of the most intelligent comments I've seen posted on Slashdot...
You said it perfectly, Omega
Uh, what the hell is the purpose of this article? Shouldn't this be under "Ask Slashdot" or perhaps "Senseless Ranting"?
Sun has the same oppressive, megalomaniacal practices that Microsoft does. They're just pissed because they can't win in the market.
With Sun, you get the same business practices, but with virtually unusable (unless your IT dept happens to be greatly overstaffed and rich) technology behind it.
Yeah, the Bill of Rights was supposed to quash things like the DMCA...
That didn't happen (yet).
Good to see, there are several facets of it that I absolutely love.
Now only if they could speed up the network and disk I/O to the levels of FreeBSD. Oh, and SMP would be great, too, but according to the OpenBSD developers, that's not a hot project of theirs.
So until then, I still keep a watchful eye, and a PC in the closet where it belongs with the latest version installed as a toy to play around with.
Cast of characters:
Gargamel - Bill Gates
Azriel - Steve Ballmer
Papa Smurf - Richard Stallman
Vanity Smurf - John Katz
Brainy Smurf - CowboyNeal (whoever the fuck he is)
Smurfette - Natalie Portman
Too bad it takes 3 Service Packs...
Right, and as we all know Sendmail, NFS/RPC and BIND have been pinnacles of bulletproof security. I won't even go into the concept of UNIX security.
Also, you might want to actually read what the certification means, instead of just pulling some meaning out of your ass. It's the least you could do before submitting a story on it...
Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server beat a Red Hat Linux* server in bandwidth tests, showing its clear superiority.
* Red Hat Linux v4.2 used in tests.
No, the way things will REALLY change is if:
- If the group of linux geeks grows to more than just a miniscule, fringe group
- Open source coders develop developer & platform tools as robust as those offered by the likes of Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, etc. Right now, nothing approaches these folks, and only a fool IT manager would literally "Bet the bank" on unaccountable, open source technologies.
Don't get me wrong, noncommercial open source is great, but it just doesn't make sense in some areas. There's no aggressive development cycle, and no real accountability.
I wish people would stop bitching about their obscure browsers not working with this or that...
At that altitude, the ice and snow don't melt, they evaporate into the air, and thus don't feed the rivers.
There's only a small "sweatband" of snow left on Kilimanjaro, the rest is (steep) scree and rock slopes.
So much for the pleasure of glissading back down after you summit!
It IS a development model for testing.
One has to wonder what kind of SEC fun Slashdot would get if the SEC were to pay attention.
Slashdot, owned by a publicly-held company, frequently posting highly inaccurate stories about other publicly-held companies to a technology industry audience, that could potentially damage a company's reputation and/or profit.
Yes, they are, fucking look at the kernel source before you post drivel like this. Various parts of the kernel are coded in C, C++, and Objective-C++