If you believe free software is good (I do)
And if you believe software reuse must come sometime (I do)
Then you cannot think that there will be a strong market for coders for ever - it just doesn't make sense.
Well, since you believe in open source, I have to believe that you have, unfortunately, succumbed to one of the more egregious pieces of closed source propaganda. Namely: "open source costs programmers jobs".
Research shows that this just isn't the case. The only jobs that Open Source eliminates are those having to do with actually developing commercial software. Such jobs account for about 1% of the market.
And if you count vertical software (which open source doesn't really threaten) as commercial software, the number becomes even lower.
A comment like this from Sun is unnecessary and appears childish. This kind of remark is unprofessional and serves no purpose except to build animosity.
My thoughts Exactly. For someone who's supposed to be an "Evangelist", he sure doesn't know a thing about PR..
Or does anyone else not understand what the big deal about text to speech is?
I had a program for my C64 circa 1983 that did pretty good text to speech. Granted the voice was pretty robotic, but I'd think that 20 years later, this should be a cinch.
The pace at which they're going now is absolutely incredible. It took them forever to reach 1.0, and I admint I was somewhat skeptical about the project. But once they got to 1.0, they started going fast and furious.
I will politely wait for the slashdotting to end before getting this release, but I can't wait! Go Moz!
While the author of this article makes some excellent points, and a very convincing case, how about this instead: Stop importing oil immediately, Allow the price of domestic oil to roughly quintuple (or whatever the market does with it), and let private industry come up with solutions.
I hate to be the voice of techno-libertarianism here, but it seems like what the author is proposing involves putting all our eggs in one basket. I'd rather see a bunch of different people attack the problem from their own angles, and let the market decide which is the best solution.
Just like Melissa, and ILoveYou, and Klez, and Goner have taught the users to be very careful when opening e-mail attachments.
I know that was intended sarcastically, but I have noticed a dramtic increase in attachment awareness amongst the otherwise clueless since the viruses you mention hit.
Of course, there is a core of complete and utter morons who get bitten over and over again and never learn. And that core is alarmingly large, but it seems to me that a lot of people got it about attachments, especially after "I Love You". Hopefully, the same will happen here with stupid passwords.
If it does enough damage, maybe people will learn, through aversive conditioning, not to use stupid passwords.
I once worked as an SA at a bank. I could guess 90% of peoples passwords in 3 tries. I'd say about 30% were the default "welcome". And the users would bitch (and occasionally get someone fired) if we told them to change them.
If it is clearly communicated that this thing is spread because of weak passwords, maybe people will wake up and start using real passwords.
I agree. When parrot comes out, there will essentially be 4 development platforms:
JVM
MS.NET
Parrot
low level (I'm lumping C and ASM here for the sake of brevity)
The fourth will be used for applications where speed is really key (real time, database engines, OS's, etc.)
For all other apps, it will be a matter of choosing one of the other 3 environments, and a language.
This choice will be particularly interesting given the fact that some languages (e.g. perl) will work with more than 1 of these environments (.NET and Parrot).
While the parent post is funny, it has a valid point. SUSE is an excellent distro, and should not tarnish its good name by association with SCO, whose business model has deteriorated into "sue random big companies and hope it works."
In many ways this is true, but coming from me, someone who is trying to switch from windows to linux, help is a lot harder to come by than they claim.
Ever Try getting help for Windows?
Support for OSS is minimal at best, and that's to be expected. When you have to pay for software, someone is payed to answer phone calls, to write thorough docs.
With Windows, after you pay $200 for the product, you have to pay another $295 per incident. With Linux, where the product is free, you can get paid support at comprable (if not lower) prices.
If something isn't done though, OSS software will always take more time to setup than commercial software.
I set up my Mandrake box in 7 minutes flat. How long does it take to set up Windows?
Great point! Actually, if both get passed it will make for a very interesting jurisdictional conflict. What if the an RIAA company Dos's a UK based p2p network?
Well, given the current status quo, you're right; this is a classic "solution without a problem" technology. However, this could be the technology that allows these guys to actually succeed.
What they can now do is use the sewer-crawling robots to get fiber to the basements of buildings, and then use the existing cat-<whatever> to get to individual apartments/offices. In more suburban areas, they might be able to use powerline ethernet to get to individual homes from the basement of one home for every few blocks.
Rural folks are still left out in the cold, but who cares about them anyway?:-)
But, then again, that would just be too cool to actually happen...
Slashdot Mirror
And I'm waiting to play Duke Nuken Forever on E17 on a GNU/Hurd system...
Well, since you believe in open source, I have to believe that you have, unfortunately, succumbed to one of the more egregious pieces of closed source propaganda. Namely: "open source costs programmers jobs".
Research shows that this just isn't the case. The only jobs that Open Source eliminates are those having to do with actually developing commercial software. Such jobs account for about 1% of the market.
And if you count vertical software (which open source doesn't really threaten) as commercial software, the number becomes even lower.
My thoughts Exactly. For someone who's supposed to be an "Evangelist", he sure doesn't know a thing about PR..
<SimpsonsComicBookStoreGuy>"Worst evagelist ever" </SimpsonsComicBookStoreGuy>
...As the drug laws are at deterring drug use.
Then again, this guy is from Texas. At least he's not trying to execute file traders...
This is great. It adds to my list of answers to the common question/objection "Who supports Linux?"
Or does anyone else not understand what the big deal about text to speech is?
I had a program for my C64 circa 1983 that did pretty good text to speech. Granted the voice was pretty robotic, but I'd think that 20 years later, this should be a cinch.
Speech to text, on the other hand...
The pace at which they're going now is absolutely incredible. It took them forever to reach 1.0, and I admint I was somewhat skeptical about the project. But once they got to 1.0, they started going fast and furious.
I will politely wait for the slashdotting to end before getting this release, but I can't wait! Go Moz!
While the author of this article makes some excellent points, and a very convincing case, how about this instead: Stop importing oil immediately, Allow the price of domestic oil to roughly quintuple (or whatever the market does with it), and let private industry come up with solutions.
I hate to be the voice of techno-libertarianism here, but it seems like what the author is proposing involves putting all our eggs in one basket. I'd rather see a bunch of different people attack the problem from their own angles, and let the market decide which is the best solution.
I've been using Perl and XSSI for all my active web page content for a couple of years now. Is there any compelling reason for me to learn PHP?
I really don't want to start a flame war here, but what are the advantages of PHP over the Perl/XSSI combo?
I understand McDonald's business is hurting, but getting the tech crowd in isn't going to solve their revenue shortfalls
I think they already got "the tech crowd"Just like Melissa, and ILoveYou, and Klez, and Goner have taught the users to be very careful when opening e-mail attachments.
I know that was intended sarcastically, but I have noticed a dramtic increase in attachment awareness amongst the otherwise clueless since the viruses you mention hit.
Of course, there is a core of complete and utter morons who get bitten over and over again and never learn. And that core is alarmingly large, but it seems to me that a lot of people got it about attachments, especially after "I Love You". Hopefully, the same will happen here with stupid passwords.
It's about time someone wrote a worm like this.
If it does enough damage, maybe people will learn, through aversive conditioning, not to use stupid passwords.
I once worked as an SA at a bank. I could guess 90% of peoples passwords in 3 tries. I'd say about 30% were the default "welcome". And the users would bitch (and occasionally get someone fired) if we told them to change them.
If it is clearly communicated that this thing is spread because of weak passwords, maybe people will wake up and start using real passwords.
Or is it just wishful thinking?
I agree. When parrot comes out, there will essentially be 4 development platforms:
The fourth will be used for applications where speed is really key (real time, database engines, OS's, etc.)
For all other apps, it will be a matter of choosing one of the other 3 environments, and a language.
This choice will be particularly interesting given the fact that some languages (e.g. perl) will work with more than 1 of these environments (.NET and Parrot).
It's going to be an interesting world...
While the parent post is funny, it has a valid point. SUSE is an excellent distro, and should not tarnish its good name by association with SCO, whose business model has deteriorated into "sue random big companies and hope it works."
Ever Try getting help for Windows?
With Windows, after you pay $200 for the product, you have to pay another $295 per incident. With Linux, where the product is free, you can get paid support at comprable (if not lower) prices.
I set up my Mandrake box in 7 minutes flat. How long does it take to set up Windows?
Great point! Actually, if both get passed it will make for a very interesting jurisdictional conflict. What if the an RIAA company Dos's a UK based p2p network?
Well, given the current status quo, you're right; this is a classic "solution without a problem" technology. However, this could be the technology that allows these guys to actually succeed.
What they can now do is use the sewer-crawling robots to get fiber to the basements of buildings, and then use the existing cat-<whatever> to get to individual apartments/offices. In more suburban areas, they might be able to use powerline ethernet to get to individual homes from the basement of one home for every few blocks.
Rural folks are still left out in the cold, but who cares about them anyway? :-)
But, then again, that would just be too cool to actually happen...