Agreed. The fact that he completely misses that Microsoft is under real pressure for the first time ever from more competitors than just Google makes this analysis useless as well. But the key is these two companies aren't trying to keep each other in check. They are to quote Bill Gates "trying to cut off their oxygen supply." That is why Microsoft is targeting Search and Google is targeting office and now the OS.
I put all my config stuff into a noarch RPM and install it when I kickstart the box. When the configs need to be updated I update the rpm and roll it out as an update. That way we know what version of every thing we have and you can use the RPM tools to check if any thing has been changed.
Apple does good designs when they can control both the design of the hardware and the software at the same time. That just isn't in the cards for open source. I do wonder though if Apple is the epitome of design why do they have such a cruddy market share? Maybe not all their designs are that great. The only thing they have had that has really rocked the world since the Apple II is the iPod.
On the audio side yes Microsoft has lost big time. But they almost have the video side sewn up. DRM is becoming more and more prevalent with video and pretty well all DRM leads back to Microsoft. It doesn't matter what codec they use if you can't see it any ways because it is wrapped in a Microsoft only DRM wrapper. This is a leaver they can use both to clobber other operating systems as well as other browsers. If you can't run most movie content on your mac because Microsoft hasn't deemed to provide a plugin that will work in Safarri guess what happens to Saffari? HTML 5 needed to be released several years ago not 5 or 10 years from now.
There was a time when an artist couldn't even play for more than a room full of people. Now they can distribute all around the world very easily making their potential market massive. There used to be a time when a 24 track tape machine was 1/4 of a million dollars more like 3/4 of a million in todays dollars. A 24 track Neve console another 1/4 million a purpose built studio yet more money, good condenser mikes used to cost thousand of dollars each etc, etc etc. The costs used to be massive and the studio time costs were prohibitive. There used to be big risk that needed to be backed by big reward for successes. But the costs of recording have absolutely collapsed due to all the technology the studios rally against. Hey your lucky if any one in the band even played on the album any more. Most albums are just mashups of loops bought off of disks these days. And I don't know any good musicians that started out doing it for the money. But more important copy right was created to promote creation, the record companies which is where the vast bulk of the money goes are not needed any more for creation. That is why they are pissed.
It is a shame this post got modded down as I am sure mine will be as well. But the truth is that the law on the books is fully against the defended in this case. As for defendants it would be hard to pick a worse one. If the jury believed this defendant destroyed evidence then it makes the defendant look guilty and scheming. This case was never going to get won by this defendant based on the existing law.
I'm not saying I agree with the law. But it is the law and it doesn't appear to be going any where. US consumers don't seem to care either as the politicians haven't gotten the message that this is some thing they could be voted out of power over. "Home of the free"? Humbug.
I wouldn't care about this case at all if it wasn't for the fact that big US media and US politicians are tripping over them selves to try and force Canada to abandon it's Constitution and Charter of Rights.
Don't you think it is time to face up to the fact that this is what the US Government wants, this is what big media wants, it is the rule of the land and this is the way it is going to be in the US. This is the way it is going to be and telling people other wise is just doing them a disservice. If you listen to all the politicians down there it is obvious that if any judge gets in the way of these types of punishments there will be a new law passed same day to close any possible defence. Face up to the facts.
Damn. And I had mod points just yesterday to mod that comment down with. I am so happy about your NT this and.net that but you are only a couple of decades to late to the game with those responses.
As for MS parallelism Microsoft had to get their threading working because their process generation was complete dog shat. Linux has always had a lightweight process forking system unlike windows.
Back to the main story though. The beauty of the American patent system is that the people who actually invented parallel computing will have had their patents expire by now so could be completely helpless against Microsoft should the patent board soil the bed again, which seems like a given with them these days.
In a high availability situation I would never trust AD to work with my nix machines. All it takes is Microsoft to make one change in the code and an admin to apply a patch to the AD servers and your nix machines can all be sitting their twittling their thumbs. Then you are stuck hoping that Microsoft wants to fix the problem. Mean while management will be sitting their blaming your nix machines and thinking it is better to go all windows. If your shop wants to go all windows do it based on a buisness requirement not based on getting bent by microsoft yet again.
Why is it that ever single little thing that Canonical does has to become a slashdot story or a press release? We now have this story soon to be followed up by the we have a team story, to be followed up by the we might write some code soon story, to be followed up by the we have an alpha story followed by....
Ubuntu has become the only Linux distro I absolute despise because they never take a break from running their mouths. Mark Shuttleworth is the new Daryl McBride.Get back to us when you have some actual news.
Couldn't agree more. This article would be 2/3rds right if this was 1995. But almost every thing in this article has been corrected for years and years.
I find it odd how people go on and on about how stuff isn't ready for prime time in Linux but I run the bleeding edge of the raw hide branch of Fedora on multiple computers doing different tasks and I never see the kinds of problems these people go on and on about. I run server farms with Redhat and stuff just works. The only time stuff doesn't just work on Linux is when Solaris admins go "Linux is Unix" and then try to run their Linux boxes like they are Solaris and screw them up.
While I would like to see Linux do well on these devices it isn't all bad news if they don't. At the end of the day Microsoft still gets deprived of the mountains of money they would be making on a full blown OS. That is money they won't have to perform sleazy and questionably legal things with.
I still think Linux will come out as the hot OS on these devices eventually as better support is generated in the open source world. We just need the platforms to stabilize a little more first.
One of the biggest sources of piracy in North America right now has to be the poorly encrypted Dish satellite signals that pirates easily tap into. Seems to me they are in the US. Wolverine wasn't leaked from Canada but was from the US. The Metallica album was leaked from the US etc, etc.
Like environmental issues it is easier to highlight some one else's issues than it is to deal with your own.
I think it boils down to this. The open source community can feel free to contribute code and documentation to our project. But we will feel free to keep you from being able to run it on an open source platform and we have the force of patents to stop you. If you want to fork the code we just drop the patent bomb.
The MPEG group and the other douche bags they hang with are the most anti open source group there is. Am I ever going to play Blu-ray movies on my Linux computer? Not likely.
Actually the message it sends is you can not take control just by buying out one piece of the open source world. For the record Sun is going through the same thing with Open Office. Sun really doesn't understand open source.
The official branch is where ever the big distros decide to pull from.
Slashdot Mirror
You might want to have a look at these threads on the Samsung 7/8/9 series firmware over at AVS.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1134497&highlight=linux
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1047445&highlight=linux
Or the whole thing is just misdirection. It just smells funny.
Ya bad people won't look for flaws in the system if only Apple can keep people tied to their contracts. I'm having a hard time seeing the logic.
Ask the dip shit behind proprietary ssh what happens when you open source and then try to take it back. It ain't pretty.
Agreed. The fact that he completely misses that Microsoft is under real pressure for the first time ever from more competitors than just Google makes this analysis useless as well. But the key is these two companies aren't trying to keep each other in check. They are to quote Bill Gates "trying to cut off their oxygen supply." That is why Microsoft is targeting Search and Google is targeting office and now the OS.
I put all my config stuff into a noarch RPM and install it when I kickstart the box. When the configs need to be updated I update the rpm and roll it out as an update. That way we know what version of every thing we have and you can use the RPM tools to check if any thing has been changed.
Apple does good designs when they can control both the design of the hardware and the software at the same time. That just isn't in the cards for open source. I do wonder though if Apple is the epitome of design why do they have such a cruddy market share? Maybe not all their designs are that great. The only thing they have had that has really rocked the world since the Apple II is the iPod.
On the audio side yes Microsoft has lost big time. But they almost have the video side sewn up. DRM is becoming more and more prevalent with video and pretty well all DRM leads back to Microsoft. It doesn't matter what codec they use if you can't see it any ways because it is wrapped in a Microsoft only DRM wrapper. This is a leaver they can use both to clobber other operating systems as well as other browsers. If you can't run most movie content on your mac because Microsoft hasn't deemed to provide a plugin that will work in Safarri guess what happens to Saffari? HTML 5 needed to be released several years ago not 5 or 10 years from now.
There was a time when an artist couldn't even play for more than a room full of people. Now they can distribute all around the world very easily making their potential market massive. There used to be a time when a 24 track tape machine was 1/4 of a million dollars more like 3/4 of a million in todays dollars. A 24 track Neve console another 1/4 million a purpose built studio yet more money, good condenser mikes used to cost thousand of dollars each etc, etc etc. The costs used to be massive and the studio time costs were prohibitive. There used to be big risk that needed to be backed by big reward for successes. But the costs of recording have absolutely collapsed due to all the technology the studios rally against. Hey your lucky if any one in the band even played on the album any more. Most albums are just mashups of loops bought off of disks these days. And I don't know any good musicians that started out doing it for the money. But more important copy right was created to promote creation, the record companies which is where the vast bulk of the money goes are not needed any more for creation. That is why they are pissed.
It is a shame this post got modded down as I am sure mine will be as well. But the truth is that the law on the books is fully against the defended in this case. As for defendants it would be hard to pick a worse one. If the jury believed this defendant destroyed evidence then it makes the defendant look guilty and scheming. This case was never going to get won by this defendant based on the existing law.
I'm not saying I agree with the law. But it is the law and it doesn't appear to be going any where. US consumers don't seem to care either as the politicians haven't gotten the message that this is some thing they could be voted out of power over. "Home of the free"? Humbug.
I wouldn't care about this case at all if it wasn't for the fact that big US media and US politicians are tripping over them selves to try and force Canada to abandon it's Constitution and Charter of Rights.
Don't you think it is time to face up to the fact that this is what the US Government wants, this is what big media wants, it is the rule of the land and this is the way it is going to be in the US. This is the way it is going to be and telling people other wise is just doing them a disservice. If you listen to all the politicians down there it is obvious that if any judge gets in the way of these types of punishments there will be a new law passed same day to close any possible defence. Face up to the facts.
Damn. And I had mod points just yesterday to mod that comment down with. I am so happy about your NT this and .net that but you are only a couple of decades to late to the game with those responses.
As for MS parallelism Microsoft had to get their threading working because their process generation was complete dog shat. Linux has always had a lightweight process forking system unlike windows.
Back to the main story though. The beauty of the American patent system is that the people who actually invented parallel computing will have had their patents expire by now so could be completely helpless against Microsoft should the patent board soil the bed again, which seems like a given with them these days.
In a high availability situation I would never trust AD to work with my nix machines. All it takes is Microsoft to make one change in the code and an admin to apply a patch to the AD servers and your nix machines can all be sitting their twittling their thumbs. Then you are stuck hoping that Microsoft wants to fix the problem. Mean while management will be sitting their blaming your nix machines and thinking it is better to go all windows. If your shop wants to go all windows do it based on a buisness requirement not based on getting bent by microsoft yet again.
Why is it that ever single little thing that Canonical does has to become a slashdot story or a press release? We now have this story soon to be followed up by the we have a team story, to be followed up by the we might write some code soon story, to be followed up by the we have an alpha story followed by....
Ubuntu has become the only Linux distro I absolute despise because they never take a break from running their mouths. Mark Shuttleworth is the new Daryl McBride.Get back to us when you have some actual news.
Couldn't agree more. This article would be 2/3rds right if this was 1995. But almost every thing in this article has been corrected for years and years.
I find it odd how people go on and on about how stuff isn't ready for prime time in Linux but I run the bleeding edge of the raw hide branch of Fedora on multiple computers doing different tasks and I never see the kinds of problems these people go on and on about. I run server farms with Redhat and stuff just works. The only time stuff doesn't just work on Linux is when Solaris admins go "Linux is Unix" and then try to run their Linux boxes like they are Solaris and screw them up.
While I would like to see Linux do well on these devices it isn't all bad news if they don't. At the end of the day Microsoft still gets deprived of the mountains of money they would be making on a full blown OS. That is money they won't have to perform sleazy and questionably legal things with.
I still think Linux will come out as the hot OS on these devices eventually as better support is generated in the open source world. We just need the platforms to stabilize a little more first.
Why look, there is a tempest in my tea cup.
One of the biggest sources of piracy in North America right now has to be the poorly encrypted Dish satellite signals that pirates easily tap into. Seems to me they are in the US. Wolverine wasn't leaked from Canada but was from the US. The Metallica album was leaked from the US etc, etc.
Like environmental issues it is easier to highlight some one else's issues than it is to deal with your own.
$4 per line per month?????? This must be the most expensive code in history. What are these guys smoking?
I think it boils down to this. The open source community can feel free to contribute code and documentation to our project. But we will feel free to keep you from being able to run it on an open source platform and we have the force of patents to stop you. If you want to fork the code we just drop the patent bomb.
The MPEG group and the other douche bags they hang with are the most anti open source group there is. Am I ever going to play Blu-ray movies on my Linux computer? Not likely.
How many bug reports and patches does Linux get? Oooodles. Those are critics. Helpful critics, not people who just want to bitch.
Actually the message it sends is you can not take control just by buying out one piece of the open source world. For the record Sun is going through the same thing with Open Office. Sun really doesn't understand open source.
The official branch is where ever the big distros decide to pull from.
The Bilski case outlaws buisness methods meaning this will be denied by the patent office.
I sent in my responses yesterday. After reading their questions I can say it is a good thing they sent out an RFI.
I think what we have learned here is that McNealy can't write a convincing letter.