I have this idea that charging for support cannot be a good idea, except for big companies. Charging for services and products may be. But charging for support? What are they talking about? Either the software is well supported or it is unsupported. If it is well supported you don't need extra support. What you need is the next key technology developed!
We need to find a suitable extra motivation for Open Source (and free) projects. People can contribute money. I could contribute money. I use forware at work so i could easily pay money. I can't code. Mostly ANYONE can donate work. Mostly anyone can benefit from Open Source software and open standards.
We just need a kickstart. The code is as mature as it can be. It's usable, we can start from what we've got now, replace every Windows and fund the godam development in a speedy fashion.
If, for example, Microsoft manages to get 70% of the people to use the.Net actively and Apache can't serve it. What should my company do? Run out of business or install the stupid libraries and ditch Mozilla?
We should all be supporting the Mono project right now. Not some venture capitalist or 2 single companies that can "sell their souls" anytime for some (big or small) bucks...
Mod this up guys. That's what WILL happen. You all slashdoters be happy an think that will never happen. But it ain't true. It will happen. It happened to the palmtops ("Windows CE is so cute"). It happened for the games ("Porting not trivial anymore"). It happened to Office Suits firms (Wordperfect, Borland, Lotus).
Internet is the last chance. It can't be bought. Microsoft arrived late. So what is everybody waiting for? You pay $500 for the newset XP + Office that costs $5 a piece to Microsoft. And with the remaining money they develop their next eggs to fuck your companies or bisiness in the name of future where computers are for everyone.
In the very end, Microsoft will be the goverment best partner so they will not get divided:
"Oh, it's nice. Every company has it's accounting on MS.Net...call the IRS. Let's take a look at who is doing what".
"Oh, let's prohibit people from making CD copies. Microsoft, can you add a drivers blocking system? Yeah, we are a team right?"
"Oh, company A doesn't use XP IIS 9A? What a shame they can't use any advanced features of Explorer 12 because only our server can serve them!"
This is a true post. Most notably, IBM and so other big companies can't make a real difference. They can provide some "branding" and some funding but that's all.
The real power is at the people and companies fingertips. We just need to fund the projects ourselves. And this "ourselves" means millions of people making small contribution to develop the free quality software we need done ASAP (photoshop killer, Office killer, IE killer...[add what you need to the list]).
95% of the people can't code and most of them can only contribute money. Right now it's too unbalanced. We are asking some guys to sacrifice themselves for us all. Of course, they gain recognition but that doesn't feed their children.
A problem arises with the distintion. How do you know what's the best Strategy if you don't how much would that Strategy cost you? How much it would must be solved at the Tactical level.
Many wars are won at the Tactical level even though the Strategy level gets the "awards". A simple example: a good strategy will certainly not help you in a chess game unless you know exactly how to tacticaly get an advantage from it. When a Master studies a new strategy, he has to stusdy ALL the tactical consecuences as well, and i mean ALL OF THEM and as deep has his team can crank to.
In real life, it's the same. "The strategy of attacking the talibans in order to make them lose Afganistans control". Mh, how?
They should better look at all the acceptable tactics (ie: this is not allowe, this is acceptable, etc.) and then with that Toolbox, devise the best strategy.
I don't know if i am making my point clear but the Strategy that goes like "1) Jim will command this swad. 2) Jim, go take the hill" does not make a game any more Strategic than moving individual units.
In the core, you need to be able to fully understand the Tactical level, and then abstract and put the pieces together into a scenario where you know where to hit, what is expected by the oponent, what are your key advantages and weakeness and things like this to devise a "real" strategy.
Statement 1: Although OS/2 had a compatibility layer, it wasn't "Windows". Statement 2: Until Linux provides proven, reliable, backwards compatibility here it's no dice.
How is this Insightfull? I found it rather contradictory. OS2 was compatible but not Windows so it failed. And the conclusion is Linux has to be compatible?
Compatibility in the OS level means nothing, you'll never what a compatible thing that WILL break who knows when. People need be aware they are really Switching to something else.
Replaceablility means everything. Can i replace my applications easily? yes/no. Answer that and you'll know what your next OS is.
That is, until Internet and the USA Governmet is Microsoft private property (clock is ticking and America is in great danger YES).
When 3Dfx had the MiniGL did anyone complained about it? It was a special porpuse OpenGL driver for just 1 game. And it was used in ALL benchmarks although you had the opengl32.dll which was the generic thing.
So well now Nvidia releases a post under this HardOPC and everyone sees the light. I remember them screwing their RIVA drivers quality to death to get some frames in Quake 2 (and ONLY under Quake).
I would say that this HardOp post would be ok if it just compared 10 games for both card and reaches the conclusion that the ATI card sucks in every game but in Quake.
The bottom line is that optimizing based on strings found in a binary or name of a binary is NOT a good thing. Optimizing for top rated games is desirable because other games developers know this and try to follow that path to benefit from that highly optimiced code (avoiding functions nobody implements that are almsot usually crappy slow).
Signature: mod me up please!
Insightful. Thanks for the post. So if everyone knows Windows then everything else is worst because people don't know the other system?
That's how you'd run a comparison between say two houses then the one you live in is better because you know the neighborhood?
And I'm pretty sure i can teach my secreataries to use Abiword, Evolution and Gnumeric with a 1 day course (log-in is here [gui-login], printing is here, mp3s are here, Word is called Abiword and Excel's name is Gnumeric, ICQ Corp is here and the Internet Explorer has this new icon [mozilla-icon]. Any questions send me an email period").
Add some journaling filesystem and they really CAN'T break it.
The only problem is our clients use Excel, Word and all the incompatible things we already know. So we get stuck there. And when we gain compatibility who know what eggs from Bill will be mature (read.Net, etc).
There has been like 7 security fixes in the last 48 days and ALL OF THEM involve rebooting. Be carefull!! And it's a nice uptime for a Windows. Both OS are getting more similar. Windows getting stable and Linux getting friendly.
Maybe Alan will merge Bill's code and Linus and Balmer developt the next Lindows OS:)
How? How's terrified at computer viruses? There are about 5000000 infected computers and even though people are pissed, they are more woried about 200 antrax letters.
Mh, i can see a patter here. People are terrified to lose their lives. People are NOT terrified about getting a computer virus infect their computer.
Microsoft should be sued to death by their lack of respect of the victims of terrorism for willing to push their agenda in this time of crisis.
There is something Microsoft can do to secure Windows, and it's laughing at the victims (dead or threatened by terrorism) is not one of them.
If they have security problems exploited by Jumbo-Gumbo of rusia or Mango-Boy from China, they can fix them and get on with whatever is their company goal. ie: World Domination.
Oh, they didn't install scissors detectors and didn't take the psycho test in everyone boarding the plane. And they didn't have rambo onboard.
The Airlines did such a bad job. So bad, we can make a comparison with the smail companies that distribute antrax due to lack of security measures. Oh companies are doing such poor jobs they're ruining America and most civ. countries as well!
Virus are bad, but they don't cost lifes (so it's not a good comparison). But....any closed source firm should be liable for any security vulnerabily found on their programs. Why? Because they are the only ones that can find the vulnerability and the only ones that can fix it. Hence, they are the ones that can be blamed.
If you have the source, you can find the vulnerability and fix it yourself. So you can't sue anyone.
With Open Source you can't blame anyone. And they surely will blame YOU:
CASE 1: "We deserved it for choosing free software!!! Fire the jerk that deployed that solution inmediatly and buy some Office XP licenses".
With Closed Source (meaning Windows/OSX) you can blame a multimillion elephant company for just about anything.
CASE 2: "Boss, MS-Windows had a bug exploitable in about 400 million computers. It's not our fault we did everything right and are already downloading the patches from MS Pay.net. Maybe we should buy a respectable Antivirus solution to secure our bussiness best."
I can tell you this: i could go and install Linux for everyone in my company (it's a small one) but:
If ANYTHING goes wrong i will be the one to blame.
If programs get unsopported/incompatible i will be the one to blame.
If a virus is found to infect Linux (users do stupid things) i will be the one to blame.
If ANYTHING (yada-yada-yada) happens, i will be the one to blame.
And i sure have enough problems already!!!! So i use it for myself and, if they ask, i show them the software and they seem to think of it a strage copy of Windows...(they quite like it)
So unless Open Source build more reputation and brand awareness, it'll be a little more hard to deploy because nobody would want to get blamed for that decision.
IBM, SUN, COMPAQ and others are greatly helping change this blamability issue.
The problem is there is no answer to that question. If software was like Beverages or Furniture, Open Source would be dead (who makes chairs for free or who has a Free Lunch bussiness running?).
The point is software is a special kind of beast. The more you produce, the less it costs. So the more people that use it, the less it should cost to develop . With windows that doesn't happen because Microsoft uses the OS monopoly (extraordinary income) to monopolice other bussiness like office productivity, net browsing, etc).
What if everyone on earth spent $10 a year to an Open Source Congress that would direct the money into proyects a democratic way?
What would happen is that every year you'll have an OS and applications worth $500 billion for $10 bucks. The second year, you'll have a system worth $1000 billion. Third year $1500 billons worth of software. ETC. I would happily send my $10 bucks RIGHT AWAY...and after that i would be using that software to run my capitalistic normal and diminishing returns with scale bussiness in a competitive enviroment. And that's what you all americans should realize: software is NOT a normal good.
What YOU HAVE NOW is a two year license (gets obsolete after 2 years mostly) and you pay $1000 every two years. You own nothing. They own your ass. And then they start threating YOUR BUSSINESS with YOUR MONEY (see how they try to threaten carmakers with CarPoint, BCentral for adverticing, Camera Makers with XP, games companies with XBox, Handheld producers with Windows CE, knowledge companies with Encarta and hundred thouthands of examples).
They mostly FUCK everyone (one at a time) while at the same time making sure people enjoy getting fucked until it's TOO LATE FOR THEM. And they then start thinking about Open Source...
SOFTWARE SHOULD BE A REGULATED PUBLIC GOOD FOR EARTHLINGS. People should be able to tell what they need and who should do it.
The profit is not the problem. Who profits from air? Are air producing trees getting their money for their hard work? NO. Economics is about scarcity and downward sloping production curves.
1) Microsoft tries to make profit from air by changing the air everyone breathes with THEIR specially engineered air (how to see the web, how to store a document, how to read a spreadsheet, what email to use, where to process your photographs, etc.).
2) Open Source is trying to make air breathable by anyone everywhere. It's not the Open Souce air, it's just 100% pure and compatible air.
3) Monopoly is the #1 enemy of capitalism (go read The Wealth of Nations...by Adam Smith).
Monopoly in a increasing returns with scale is just the WORST ENEMY EVER of any capitalist country.
If economy theory is right, Bill Gates WILL own all your asses in the long run.
And I can tell you one little fact. They want Linux to succedd because they know they can kill it any time. They just need SUN and some other vendors off the map before fucking the OS movement. They ALWAYS do it one at a time. The clock is ticking!!!
Who the fuck cares about their problems? I found a problem with Windows (viruses, crashes, vuln., leaks, etc.) and the problems are adressed in a spend more fashion:
Please lecture yourself in at least:
1) the very basic foundations of micro/macroeconomics.
2) how terrorism if fought.
Then do an educated post and not a stupid one like you just did. Your economy is crippling because of expectations of it cripping. Not because Bush this or that or because Ben Laden this or that.
The only way Linux will be used as a gaming OS if is the games come as bootable DVDs with Linux as the underlying OS the game runs on... and this is an ideal use for Linux
Haven't you read the latest news? 97% of the games run under Windows with DirectX, which also happens to have the most polished video card drivers.
The thing is some games are "playable" under Linux so i doubt with see ANY hardcore games running Linux to play games.
The good point is there are a lot of Linux users that would like to play games, but do NOT want to install Windows (either pirated or original) because we know where that road ends...
> Why is Linux dominating the open source arena? Is this unfair or unlawful?
Eh? While Linux is a great plataform and the best supported Free OS it does not lead the open source arena...
You have plenty of Open Source projects that are not Linux specific like:
* GCC (lot's of *nix)
* Bash (mostly any *nix)
* XFree (mostly any plataform)
* Gnome (mostly any *nix)
* KDE (mostly any *nix)
* Apache (mostly any plataform)
* Abiword (mostly any plataform)
* OpenOffice (mostly any plataform)
* XMMS (mostly any *nix)
* Mozilla (mostly any plataform)
* GIMP (mostly any plataform)
* TEG (ok, ok, this is just a little risk teg clone in gtk...:-)
* Ghostscript (mostly any plataform)
So as you see it's not about Linux domination only. Linux is owned by Microsoft, but we don't yet know it. Some day, Bill Gates will ask the devil to honor the pact and it'll be game over for us all!:)
You are NOT alone...i find it clueless and uneeded. Of course i do not ban people liking/enjoying it! But i think it's a step backwards...
Nonetheless is has cool icons i do use for some other programs:)... we definetly need to implement icons library! I care about how thinks look, either at home, work or desktop. Think of it, if you wark a lot with computer you probably look at the desktop like 70% of your awake life...
Ok, find me a DRI (or Mesa) Accelerated driver for my Mach64 (Ati Rage Mobility P 4 MB) so i can play Quake on my Laptop and i'll start believing Linux can replace the Windows Desktops:-P
(mhh, in fact it replaced it, but i can't play anything except TEG - a risk clone and Tetris!)
AFAIK Nimbda infection doesn't require you to execute an attachment. If you have IE/Outlook unpatched, the file is executed automagicaly (Iframe + VBS bug).
As system can be secured. But that's an easy task if you only use the very basic networing shit on it.
Run ICQ, an email server. Put an FTP server on it, a www server, an X server (hopefully SSHd:-) and a lot of services and you have found yourself a challenge.
A stupidly closed computer is NOT a secure system, it's a closed system. You can have a firewall rule (Deny all ports/all packets inbound for any interface) and if the firewall doesn't has buffer overflow bugs you can clain yourself the title of "King of useless security"...
Why would a top hacker (original term) want to hack that machine to get 10k? He can surelly profit more on other areas. And if it is a hacker, what would make him reveal the hack/virus? He can go robing industrial secrets arround the Globe for better profit.
The trial prize is not up to the requested task. As it is now, it only probes that it's not "cake easy" to hack and nothing more.
No, microsoft added the autorun_default_action on "Click" thing and flawed "Hide extensions" + "Icons" based on the (trickable) filename extension.
Why do you need to autorun a.pif received in an email? It should ONLY allow you to save it to disk. Then Windows will be secure and the users will be the only security concern on a network (in the attachment field)
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I have this idea that charging for support cannot be a good idea, except for big companies. Charging for services and products may be. But charging for support? What are they talking about? Either the software is well supported or it is unsupported. If it is well supported you don't need extra support. What you need is the next key technology developed!
.Net actively and Apache can't serve it. What should my company do? Run out of business or install the stupid libraries and ditch Mozilla?
We need to find a suitable extra motivation for Open Source (and free) projects. People can contribute money. I could contribute money. I use forware at work so i could easily pay money. I can't code. Mostly ANYONE can donate work. Mostly anyone can benefit from Open Source software and open standards.
We just need a kickstart. The code is as mature as it can be. It's usable, we can start from what we've got now, replace every Windows and fund the godam development in a speedy fashion.
If, for example, Microsoft manages to get 70% of the people to use the
We should all be supporting the Mono project right now. Not some venture capitalist or 2 single companies that can "sell their souls" anytime for some (big or small) bucks...
Mod this up guys. That's what WILL happen. You all slashdoters be happy an think that will never happen. But it ain't true. It will happen. It happened to the palmtops ("Windows CE is so cute"). It happened for the games ("Porting not trivial anymore"). It happened to Office Suits firms (Wordperfect, Borland, Lotus).
.Net ...call the IRS. Let's take a look at who is doing what".
Internet is the last chance. It can't be bought. Microsoft arrived late. So what is everybody waiting for? You pay $500 for the newset XP + Office that costs $5 a piece to Microsoft. And with the remaining money they develop their next eggs to fuck your companies or bisiness in the name of future where computers are for everyone.
In the very end, Microsoft will be the goverment best partner so they will not get divided:
"Oh, it's nice. Every company has it's accounting on MS
"Oh, let's prohibit people from making CD copies. Microsoft, can you add a drivers blocking system? Yeah, we are a team right?"
"Oh, company A doesn't use XP IIS 9A? What a shame they can't use any advanced features of Explorer 12 because only our server can serve them!"
This is a true post. Most notably, IBM and so other big companies can't make a real difference. They can provide some "branding" and some funding but that's all.
The real power is at the people and companies fingertips. We just need to fund the projects ourselves. And this "ourselves" means millions of people making small contribution to develop the free quality software we need done ASAP (photoshop killer, Office killer, IE killer...[add what you need to the list]).
95% of the people can't code and most of them can only contribute money. Right now it's too unbalanced. We are asking some guys to sacrifice themselves for us all. Of course, they gain recognition but that doesn't feed their children.
A problem arises with the distintion. How do you know what's the best Strategy if you don't how much would that Strategy cost you? How much it would must be solved at the Tactical level.
Many wars are won at the Tactical level even though the Strategy level gets the "awards". A simple example: a good strategy will certainly not help you in a chess game unless you know exactly how to tacticaly get an advantage from it. When a Master studies a new strategy, he has to stusdy ALL the tactical consecuences as well, and i mean ALL OF THEM and as deep has his team can crank to.
In real life, it's the same. "The strategy of attacking the talibans in order to make them lose Afganistans control". Mh, how?
They should better look at all the acceptable tactics (ie: this is not allowe, this is acceptable, etc.) and then with that Toolbox, devise the best strategy.
I don't know if i am making my point clear but the Strategy that goes like "1) Jim will command this swad. 2) Jim, go take the hill" does not make a game any more Strategic than moving individual units.
In the core, you need to be able to fully understand the Tactical level, and then abstract and put the pieces together into a scenario where you know where to hit, what is expected by the oponent, what are your key advantages and weakeness and things like this to devise a "real" strategy.
Insightfull...Aha...
Statement 1: Although OS/2 had a compatibility layer, it wasn't "Windows".
Statement 2: Until Linux provides proven, reliable, backwards compatibility here it's no dice.
How is this Insightfull? I found it rather contradictory. OS2 was compatible but not Windows so it failed. And the conclusion is Linux has to be compatible?
Compatibility in the OS level means nothing, you'll never what a compatible thing that WILL break who knows when. People need be aware they are really Switching to something else.
Replaceablility means everything. Can i replace my applications easily? yes/no. Answer that and you'll know what your next OS is.
That is, until Internet and the USA Governmet is Microsoft private property (clock is ticking and America is in great danger YES).
All asses are belong to Bill Gates
When 3Dfx had the MiniGL did anyone complained about it? It was a special porpuse OpenGL driver for just 1 game. And it was used in ALL benchmarks although you had the opengl32.dll which was the generic thing. So well now Nvidia releases a post under this HardOPC and everyone sees the light. I remember them screwing their RIVA drivers quality to death to get some frames in Quake 2 (and ONLY under Quake). I would say that this HardOp post would be ok if it just compared 10 games for both card and reaches the conclusion that the ATI card sucks in every game but in Quake. The bottom line is that optimizing based on strings found in a binary or name of a binary is NOT a good thing. Optimizing for top rated games is desirable because other games developers know this and try to follow that path to benefit from that highly optimiced code (avoiding functions nobody implements that are almsot usually crappy slow). Signature: mod me up please!
Insightful. Thanks for the post. So if everyone knows Windows then everything else is worst because people don't know the other system?
.Net, etc).
That's how you'd run a comparison between say two houses then the one you live in is better because you know the neighborhood?
And I'm pretty sure i can teach my secreataries to use Abiword, Evolution and Gnumeric with a 1 day course (log-in is here [gui-login], printing is here, mp3s are here, Word is called Abiword and Excel's name is Gnumeric, ICQ Corp is here and the Internet Explorer has this new icon [mozilla-icon]. Any questions send me an email period").
Add some journaling filesystem and they really CAN'T break it.
The only problem is our clients use Excel, Word and all the incompatible things we already know. So we get stuck there. And when we gain compatibility who know what eggs from Bill will be mature (read
There has been like 7 security fixes in the last 48 days and ALL OF THEM involve rebooting. Be carefull!! And it's a nice uptime for a Windows. Both OS are getting more similar. Windows getting stable and Linux getting friendly.
:)
Maybe Alan will merge Bill's code and Linus and Balmer developt the next Lindows OS
How? How's terrified at computer viruses? There are about 5000000 infected computers and even though people are pissed, they are more woried about 200 antrax letters.
Mh, i can see a patter here. People are terrified to lose their lives. People are NOT terrified about getting a computer virus infect their computer.
Microsoft should be sued to death by their lack of respect of the victims of terrorism for willing to push their agenda in this time of crisis.
There is something Microsoft can do to secure Windows, and it's laughing at the victims (dead or threatened by terrorism) is not one of them.
If they have security problems exploited by Jumbo-Gumbo of rusia or Mango-Boy from China, they can fix them and get on with whatever is their company goal. ie: World Domination.
Oh, they didn't install scissors detectors and didn't take the psycho test in everyone boarding the plane. And they didn't have rambo onboard.
The Airlines did such a bad job. So bad, we can make a comparison with the smail companies that distribute antrax due to lack of security measures. Oh companies are doing such poor jobs they're ruining America and most civ. countries as well!
Virus are bad, but they don't cost lifes (so it's not a good comparison). But....any closed source firm should be liable for any security vulnerabily found on their programs. Why? Because they are the only ones that can find the vulnerability and the only ones that can fix it. Hence, they are the ones that can be blamed.
If you have the source, you can find the vulnerability and fix it yourself. So you can't sue anyone.
CASE 1: "We deserved it for choosing free software!!! Fire the jerk that deployed that solution inmediatly and buy some Office XP licenses".
With Closed Source (meaning Windows/OSX) you can blame a multimillion elephant company for just about anything.
CASE 2: "Boss, MS-Windows had a bug exploitable in about 400 million computers. It's not our fault we did everything right and are already downloading the patches from MS Pay.net. Maybe we should buy a respectable Antivirus solution to secure our bussiness best."
I can tell you this: i could go and install Linux for everyone in my company (it's a small one) but:
If ANYTHING goes wrong i will be the one to blame.
If programs get unsopported/incompatible i will be the one to blame.
If a virus is found to infect Linux (users do stupid things) i will be the one to blame.
If ANYTHING (yada-yada-yada) happens, i will be the one to blame.
And i sure have enough problems already!!!! So i use it for myself and, if they ask, i show them the software and they seem to think of it a strage copy of Windows...(they quite like it)
So unless Open Source build more reputation and brand awareness, it'll be a little more hard to deploy because nobody would want to get blamed for that decision.
IBM, SUN, COMPAQ and others are greatly helping change this blamability issue.
The problem is there is no answer to that question. If software was like Beverages or Furniture, Open Source would be dead (who makes chairs for free or who has a Free Lunch bussiness running?).
The point is software is a special kind of beast. The more you produce, the less it costs. So the more people that use it, the less it should cost to develop . With windows that doesn't happen because Microsoft uses the OS monopoly (extraordinary income) to monopolice other bussiness like office productivity, net browsing, etc).
What if everyone on earth spent $10 a year to an Open Source Congress that would direct the money into proyects a democratic way?
What would happen is that every year you'll have an OS and applications worth $500 billion for $10 bucks. The second year, you'll have a system worth $1000 billion. Third year $1500 billons worth of software. ETC. I would happily send my $10 bucks RIGHT AWAY...and after that i would be using that software to run my capitalistic normal and diminishing returns with scale bussiness in a competitive enviroment. And that's what you all americans should realize: software is NOT a normal good.
What YOU HAVE NOW is a two year license (gets obsolete after 2 years mostly) and you pay $1000 every two years. You own nothing. They own your ass. And then they start threating YOUR BUSSINESS with YOUR MONEY (see how they try to threaten carmakers with CarPoint, BCentral for adverticing, Camera Makers with XP, games companies with XBox, Handheld producers with Windows CE, knowledge companies with Encarta and hundred thouthands of examples).
They mostly FUCK everyone (one at a time) while at the same time making sure people enjoy getting fucked until it's TOO LATE FOR THEM. And they then start thinking about Open Source...
SOFTWARE SHOULD BE A REGULATED PUBLIC GOOD FOR EARTHLINGS. People should be able to tell what they need and who should do it.
The profit is not the problem. Who profits from air? Are air producing trees getting their money for their hard work? NO. Economics is about scarcity and downward sloping production curves.
1) Microsoft tries to make profit from air by changing the air everyone breathes with THEIR specially engineered air (how to see the web, how to store a document, how to read a spreadsheet, what email to use, where to process your photographs, etc.).
2) Open Source is trying to make air breathable by anyone everywhere. It's not the Open Souce air, it's just 100% pure and compatible air.
3) Monopoly is the #1 enemy of capitalism (go read The Wealth of Nations...by Adam Smith).
Monopoly in a increasing returns with scale is just the WORST ENEMY EVER of any capitalist country.
If economy theory is right, Bill Gates WILL own all your asses in the long run.
And I can tell you one little fact. They want Linux to succedd because they know they can kill it any time. They just need SUN and some other vendors off the map before fucking the OS movement. They ALWAYS do it one at a time. The clock is ticking!!!
Who the fuck cares about their problems? I found a problem with Windows (viruses, crashes, vuln., leaks, etc.) and the problems are adressed in a spend more fashion:
"Upgrade to XP + Office 2000 and lay off $750"...
I better wait open source maturing products!
Please lecture yourself in at least:
1) the very basic foundations of micro/macroeconomics.
2) how terrorism if fought.
Then do an educated post and not a stupid one like you just did. Your economy is crippling because of expectations of it cripping. Not because Bush this or that or because Ben Laden this or that.
The only way Linux will be used as a gaming OS if is the games come as bootable DVDs with Linux as the underlying OS the game runs on... and this is an ideal use for Linux
Haven't you read the latest news? 97% of the games run under Windows with DirectX, which also happens to have the most polished video card drivers.
The thing is some games are "playable" under Linux so i doubt with see ANY hardcore games running Linux to play games.
The good point is there are a lot of Linux users that would like to play games, but do NOT want to install Windows (either pirated or original) because we know where that road ends...
Fede
> Why is Linux dominating the open source arena? Is this unfair or unlawful?
:-)
:)
Eh? While Linux is a great plataform and the best supported Free OS it does not lead the open source arena...
You have plenty of Open Source projects that are not Linux specific like:
* GCC (lot's of *nix)
* Bash (mostly any *nix)
* XFree (mostly any plataform)
* Gnome (mostly any *nix)
* KDE (mostly any *nix)
* Apache (mostly any plataform)
* Abiword (mostly any plataform)
* OpenOffice (mostly any plataform)
* XMMS (mostly any *nix)
* Mozilla (mostly any plataform)
* GIMP (mostly any plataform)
* TEG (ok, ok, this is just a little risk teg clone in gtk...
* Ghostscript (mostly any plataform)
So as you see it's not about Linux domination only. Linux is owned by Microsoft, but we don't yet know it. Some day, Bill Gates will ask the devil to honor the pact and it'll be game over for us all!
Federico
You are NOT alone...i find it clueless and uneeded. Of course i do not ban people liking/enjoying it! But i think it's a step backwards...
:) ... we definetly need to implement icons library! I care about how thinks look, either at home, work or desktop. Think of it, if you wark a lot with computer you probably look at the desktop like 70% of your awake life...
Nonetheless is has cool icons i do use for some other programs
Federico
What for? You definetly DONT need Nautilus on Gnome. I don't use it / miss it. I don't even use gmc an i am an ex=microsoft zealot troll... :)
Federico
Ok, find me a DRI (or Mesa) Accelerated driver for my Mach64 (Ati Rage Mobility P 4 MB) so i can play Quake on my Laptop and i'll start believing Linux can replace the Windows Desktops :-P
(mhh, in fact it replaced it, but i can't play anything except TEG - a risk clone and Tetris!)
AFAIK Nimbda infection doesn't require you to execute an attachment. If you have IE/Outlook unpatched, the file is executed automagicaly (Iframe + VBS bug).
As system can be secured. But that's an easy task if you only use the very basic networing shit on it.
:-) and a lot of services and you have found yourself a challenge.
Run ICQ, an email server. Put an FTP server on it, a www server, an X server (hopefully SSHd
A stupidly closed computer is NOT a secure system, it's a closed system. You can have a firewall rule (Deny all ports/all packets inbound for any interface) and if the firewall doesn't has buffer overflow bugs you can clain yourself the title of "King of useless security"...
Why would a top hacker (original term) want to hack that machine to get 10k? He can surelly profit more on other areas. And if it is a hacker, what would make him reveal the hack/virus? He can go robing industrial secrets arround the Globe for better profit. The trial prize is not up to the requested task. As it is now, it only probes that it's not "cake easy" to hack and nothing more.
No, microsoft added the autorun_default_action on "Click" thing and flawed "Hide extensions" + "Icons" based on the (trickable) filename extension. Why do you need to autorun a .pif received in an email? It should ONLY allow you to save it to disk. Then Windows will be secure and the users will be the only security concern on a network (in the attachment field)
It would be nice if the right-click menu had an "open link in new tab" option
:-P (unless you run Windows!)
Try Galeon