I guess there is no such a thing yet, but what if it was possible to release the patent under something like the GPL, meaning that you can only use the patent in GPL-ed software, resulting in a GPP. M$ would have to OpenSource its browser technology, or forget about everything. Now that would really hurt them, since they only believe in SharedSource.
We all know that opensource comes into two forms of free: free as in beer and free as in speech.
Migrating to Linux doesn't mean that Companies can not make money on the products sold. Looked at it from a better perspective it increases the market place, since the opensourced scripts (free as in speech) can be maintained by any company, thus allowing the one that provides the best solution to the current problem to sell it.
Look at companies like Red Hat and Suse already doing this. They get money from the government to make opensourced software.
So yes, it will take jobs in the US if Suse does a better job than Red Hat. And as far as I'm concerned M$ can make a Linux distro and Linux solutions as well.
We would not recommend Debian to a new user, instead we
would point them more in the direction of Red Hat or Lycoris.
And still that is exactly what I did. I had no (like in nothing) experience whatsoever with anything that hadn't written Microsoft all over it. And yes, Debian would have made my life easier if it would have done everything automatically (hardware detect, and as far as I'm concerned software detect based on my daily moods).
But... it didn't and I have to say that there hasn't been a year where I've learned so much about my computer as the last year. I apt-get my way around new package lists, I have a very nice looking system, which is very, very easy to maintain (apt-get dist upgrade.... yummy).
Then again, if Debian would feature a graphical install (there were some graphical deb based distro's) it would attract some new users. I don't know, if that would bring anything but more mails to debian-users though;-)
Kinda funny to see: Europe being three times as big as the US/Canada and only a small number of more users there. There are a lot of explanations there, one probably being the price of internet access in Europe
Now to the funny part, if you look at the replies the North Americans jump up to defend their numbers. Show everyone that technological they are far ahead, and no one should be even thinking the other way around. As if numbers tell who is better.
Okay it has to be clear: in cultural Europe we still live in stoneages and there is only a small percentage of our populations allowed access to high tech. Don't be afraid: we might outnumber you guys, we will not 'oupercentage' you. Remain calm, take a breath you're still #1.
It is a percentage of sysadmins that is replacing. Doesn't say anything about the percentage of boxes that is replaced. If you've got big companies, they might have a lof of Unix boxes (who else can afford them). If they are replacing their Unix boxes they count for a few admins, but for a lot of boxes.
These figures say nothing about number of boxes, they only show some willingness to replace.
If you do it, you've got proof you are the man for the job.
Corporations just love those kind of papers, since it shows (among others) your commitment to the product.
It gives jBoss a kind of standing since it has a qualification program.
I probably forget some advantages. Really bad is it only lasts for a year. It is like other programs I've seen. You get your certificate, you get a lot of experience and then they take away your certificate, although you are still the best man for the job. They should certify you for a certain version and give the possibility to upgrade your certificate.
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If god didn't want us to have sex, he wouldn't have made it so nice.
Even if you're right, although I personally think that the word comes from some ancient English. Even if you're right, using a tool with a bad name would not be considered blasphemy. There is still the differnce between the tool and the name.
One could of course argue that you cannot use freebsd or apple computers because of the logos. If you do that you will miss out a lot (and everyone knows that despite of the propper logo, M$ is the evil).
Considering jabber a devil tool, tells probably more about the user's use of the tool than it tells about the tool.
I'm a consultant and a lot on the way at customers sites. Customers often have very restrictive network environments. They will not allow me to logon to their networks with my laptop (I don't mean you need to be restrictive if you don't want me to connect).
The issue is that in a lot of situations I really need a floppy to get a 10k configuration file from my laptop on the customers network. Mind that most of the times they are using NT4 on their systems which doesn't have support for USB devices (mem sticks).
Even if they have win2000 they turn USB support off, most of the time. So for me the only possibility left is to get a floppy and copy it there. I could use email, if they just let me on the network or had ISDN/analog. Most of the times however they have digital phone networks, which I can not connect to.
It's not just an interesting read, although well known to anyone who has done 'something' with GUIs, the article also has a great new one for the fortune database:
Windows completely lacks that interface. It's dumb and arrogant. It's heartless and ultimately disposable.
From the MS page: However, these add-on clustering solutions come from various sources, do not conform to any set standards, and are often implemented on a particular Linux distribution
Nice to notice that Miscrosoft considers it a disadvantage if you software comes from one house.
Right, so this may become legal in the US (after all this is a US senator speaking). How will Disney tell that my pc, sharing this great amount of Disney movies, is not actually located in the US? We're still talking a global network here, so having decoy packets out there without any warning may still be considered illegal in my country.
When will government finally see that legislation is not the way to control these things?
Now that really makes me happy. Calling me filthy an d scum. Hmm, in one sentence. I guess you couldn't do better than that. So now what? Should I be scared, or is the best thing we can do create our own chips, so we can prove we can do that better too?
Microsoft at its best. They have been hunted down by being totally insecure. And they don't seem to have any (to I need to emphasize that word) solution for it. So what do they do: they make sure they get some publicity and define new standards for secure systems. I guess this is what the company has been doing all the time: missing the main stream and afterwards redefining what the stream was actually about. Big compliments to BG.
And naturally when they succeed (which is not sure), the rest of the world can follow. It is questionable if and when other OSes will have access to the new specs of the chips and if they are willing and able to introduce new versions that will use those chips.
I guess it will be business as usual, everyone follows M$ and the ones that really get the $ this time is the entertainment industry (guess who will pay them?).
Based on where you are living this can also have a tax issue. In most counties in Europe you can get some money back from the taxes office. Most of the times there are two limitations:
- Your employer should agree that you need a pc at home.
- You need to buy a pc, not parts. A whole pc with everything you dream of will work. If you buy the same thing for less money in parts, you're screwed;-)
X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most
Unix platforms is unlikely.
Hmmm... so even when it comes to a piece of real *nix software, the best way to exploit it, is to start it on windows.
There are two sides to open source for Microsoft:
1. they can use it
2. they can opensource their software
The first point raises a question every company should ask: will it bring money?
With a added second question in the case of Microsoft: will it make more money
than our own products would?
IMHO I guess the answer to the second question will definitely be a big no, the first
one remains open. Naturally they could start bringing open source software
to windows to widen the opportunities for their platform. This can only be interesting
if they do not provide such a product themselves.
Since Microsoft produces almost any kind of server, it will be small amount of software
that could be used for this goal. Added to the obvious why waste resources on a small install base? And you have your answer why they are not doing it. Personally I think it would be great if Microsoft would contribute to the open source market. It would improve their image amongst geeks big time.
Considering open sourcing their own software:
It is hard for a money making company like Microsoft to open up their internal info for the competition. I can really understand they don't like this. Second, as they have stated recently, their software is so full of bugs they can not afford to share it with the rest of the world (nationla security will be in danger!).
One last point, as noted in Linux Journal: it could actually be dangerous for Microsoft employees to have a look at GPL-ed material. If they use pieces of this code in Microsoft code, it means they have to GPL the Microsoft code...
The site is/.ted now, so I've not been able to have a real look at it. It sounds though as a concept I've seen from a Dutch company called Medialab.
They developped a product called the aquabrowser which accomplishes associative searches: clicking on a keyword will bring up related keywords. The more a word is related the more it floats to the top.
Slashdot Mirror
Makes me slowly wonder: is there a list of fileformats around there that are actually save on windows, or are they all corrupt nowadays...
I can imagine that everyone has his own mailbox of nonspam. So it should not be so hard to get your hands on such a thing.
From the article: It also needs to be acknowledged that commercial UNIX-based systems like Linux
Okay, I know there is a lot of commercial Linux out there, but to call Linux a commercial system...
I guess there is no such a thing yet, but what if it was possible to release the patent under something like the GPL, meaning that you can only use the patent in GPL-ed software, resulting in a GPP. M$ would have to OpenSource its browser technology, or forget about everything. Now that would really hurt them, since they only believe in SharedSource.
It is still in beta, but the link already shows us the year: windows2004. So they still have more than a year to work on it...
We all know that opensource comes into two forms of free: free as in beer and free as in speech.
Migrating to Linux doesn't mean that Companies can not make money on the products sold. Looked at it from a better perspective it increases the market place, since the opensourced scripts (free as in speech) can be maintained by any company, thus allowing the one that provides the best solution to the current problem to sell it.
Look at companies like Red Hat and Suse already doing this. They get money from the government to make opensourced software.
So yes, it will take jobs in the US if Suse does a better job than Red Hat. And as far as I'm concerned M$ can make a Linux distro and Linux solutions as well.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
That's all there is to it when you have security.debian.org in your sources.list.
No servicepacks and full control.
Microsoft has finaly acknowledged that you need an animal. Needless to say that a bug is not as nice as a tux.
We would not recommend Debian to a new user, instead we would point them more in the direction of Red Hat or Lycoris.
;-)
And still that is exactly what I did. I had no (like in nothing) experience whatsoever with anything that hadn't written Microsoft all over it. And yes, Debian would have made my life easier if it would have done everything automatically (hardware detect, and as far as I'm concerned software detect based on my daily moods).
But... it didn't and I have to say that there hasn't been a year where I've learned so much about my computer as the last year. I apt-get my way around new package lists, I have a very nice looking system, which is very, very easy to maintain (apt-get dist upgrade.... yummy).
Then again, if Debian would feature a graphical install (there were some graphical deb based distro's) it would attract some new users. I don't know, if that would bring anything but more mails to debian-users though
Trip
Kinda funny to see: Europe being three times as big as the US/Canada and only a small number of more users there. There are a lot of explanations there, one probably being the price of internet access in Europe
Now to the funny part, if you look at the replies the North Americans jump up to defend their numbers. Show everyone that technological they are far ahead, and no one should be even thinking the other way around. As if numbers tell who is better.
Okay it has to be clear:
in cultural Europe we still live in stoneages and there is only a small percentage of our populations allowed access to high tech. Don't be afraid: we might outnumber you guys, we will not 'oupercentage' you. Remain calm, take a breath you're still #1.
It is a percentage of sysadmins that is replacing. Doesn't say anything about the percentage of boxes that is replaced. If you've got big companies, they might have a lof of Unix boxes (who else can afford them). If they are replacing their Unix boxes they count for a few admins, but for a lot of boxes.
These figures say nothing about number of boxes, they only show some willingness to replace.
If you do it, you've got proof you are the man for the job.
Corporations just love those kind of papers, since it shows (among others) your commitment to the product.
It gives jBoss a kind of standing since it has a qualification program.
I probably forget some advantages.
Really bad is it only lasts for a year. It is like other programs I've seen. You get your certificate, you get a lot of experience and then they take away your certificate, although you are still the best man for the job. They should certify you for a certain version and give the possibility to upgrade your certificate.
If god didn't want us to have sex, he wouldn't have made it so nice.
Even if you're right, although I personally think that the word comes from some ancient English. Even if you're right, using a tool with a bad name would not be considered blasphemy. There is still the differnce between the tool and the name.
One could of course argue that you cannot use freebsd or apple computers because of the logos. If you do that you will miss out a lot (and everyone knows that despite of the propper logo, M$ is the evil).
Considering jabber a devil tool, tells probably more about the user's use of the tool than it tells about the tool.
I'm a consultant and a lot on the way at customers sites. Customers often have very restrictive network environments. They will not allow me to logon to their networks with my laptop (I don't mean you need to be restrictive if you don't want me to connect).
The issue is that in a lot of situations I really need a floppy to get a 10k configuration file from my laptop on the customers network. Mind that most of the times they are using NT4 on their systems which doesn't have support for USB devices (mem sticks).
Even if they have win2000 they turn USB support off, most of the time. So for me the only possibility left is to get a floppy and copy it there. I could use email, if they just let me on the network or had ISDN/analog. Most of the times however they have digital phone networks, which I can not connect to.
Trip.
It's not just an interesting read, although well known to anyone who has done 'something' with GUIs, the article also has a great new one for the fortune database:
Windows completely lacks that interface. It's dumb and arrogant. It's heartless and ultimately disposable.
I'll drink one to that.
From the MS page: However, these add-on clustering solutions come from various sources, do not conform to any set standards, and are often implemented on a particular Linux distribution
Nice to notice that Miscrosoft considers it a disadvantage if you software comes from one house.
Right, so this may become legal in the US (after all this is a US senator speaking). How will Disney tell that my pc, sharing this great amount of Disney movies, is not actually located in the US? We're still talking a global network here, so having decoy packets out there without any warning may still be considered illegal in my country.
When will government finally see that legislation is not the way to control these things?
Now that really makes me happy. Calling me filthy an d scum. Hmm, in one sentence. I guess you couldn't do better than that. So now what? Should I be scared, or is the best thing we can do create our own chips, so we can prove we can do that better too?
Microsoft at its best. They have been hunted down by being totally insecure. And they don't seem to have any (to I need to emphasize that word) solution for it. So what do they do: they make sure they get some publicity and define new standards for secure systems.
I guess this is what the company has been doing all the time: missing the main stream and afterwards redefining what the stream was actually about. Big compliments to BG.
And naturally when they succeed (which is not sure), the rest of the world can follow. It is questionable if and when other OSes will have access to the new specs of the chips and if they are willing and able to introduce new versions that will use those chips.
I guess it will be business as usual, everyone follows M$ and the ones that really get the $ this time is the entertainment industry (guess who will pay them?).
Based on where you are living this can also have a tax issue. In most counties in Europe you can get some money back from the taxes office. Most of the times there are two limitations: ;-)
- Your employer should agree that you need a pc at home. - You need to buy a pc, not parts. A whole pc with everything you dream of will work. If you buy the same thing for less money in parts, you're screwed
And then he wrote his great books filled with situations where even his three laws (although maybe slightly modified) wouldn't work.
I especially remember the robot running in circles because of a law conflict.
X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most Unix platforms is unlikely.
Hmmm... so even when it comes to a piece of real *nix software, the best way to exploit it, is to start it on windows.
It just depends on who is opening the source.
May the source be with you.
There are two sides to open source for Microsoft:
1. they can use it
2. they can opensource their software
The first point raises a question every company should ask: will it bring money? With a added second question in the case of Microsoft: will it make more money than our own products would?
IMHO I guess the answer to the second question will definitely be a big no, the first one remains open. Naturally they could start bringing open source software to windows to widen the opportunities for their platform. This can only be interesting if they do not provide such a product themselves.
Since Microsoft produces almost any kind of server, it will be small amount of software that could be used for this goal. Added to the obvious why waste resources on a small install base? And you have your answer why they are not doing it.
Personally I think it would be great if Microsoft would contribute to the open source market. It would improve their image amongst geeks big time.
Considering open sourcing their own software:
It is hard for a money making company like Microsoft to open up their internal info for the competition. I can really understand they don't like this.
Second, as they have stated recently, their software is so full of bugs they can not afford to share it with the rest of the world (nationla security will be in danger!).
One last point, as noted in Linux Journal: it could actually be dangerous for Microsoft employees to have a look at GPL-ed material. If they use pieces of this code in Microsoft code, it means they have to GPL the Microsoft code...
The site is /.ted now, so I've not been able to have a real look at it. It sounds though as a concept I've seen from a Dutch company called Medialab.
They developped a product called the aquabrowser which accomplishes associative searches: clicking on a keyword will bring up related keywords. The more a word is related the more it floats to the top.