Here in the Chicago area, they have also started radio advertising, asking people to bring in their software if they suspect it's pirated and they will check if it's authentic or not.
They compared unlicensed software to unlicensed motorists, and noted that you woudn't want one out of four drivers to be unlicensed, and that one out of every four microsoft products used in business is not licensed.
I think I jumped on this a bit too fast. I think you are right, that press release is very normal and it does go into detail explaining that the total of Windows 98 was still larger then TurboLinux...
I think since most of us (geeks) don't actually read press releases all that often, and we jump on little details that are quite normal in the marketing/press release sense...
As I said, wish you the best... The only random comment about TurboLinux (w/out ever trying it): there seems to be a large number of different version numbers for different languages.. It seems like you develop one version and then take some time to "translate" it... At least that's what it looked like to me...
What you are missing is that it bothers a lot of people in the Open Source community when an entity (be it a single person or a company like TurboLinux) misuses the statistics in a way that I would call a lie...
And no, your little disclaimer in the press release:
While the combined sales of all Windows 98 products including upgrades (see below) topped TurboLinux J 4.0 sales, the numbers clearly highlight TurboLinux's impressive presence and acceptance rates in the Japanese OS market.
Doesn't count because the title you used "...Outsells Windows 98..." is still false...
Also, your comment about "common business practice", that uses Micosoft as an example is very disturbing to me as well..
Please don't take me wrong, I wish you the best of luck, and will probably take a look at your TurboLinux distro some time in the near future myself...
Second, it's not like they are doing you a favor, this is normal... Companies that help bring the IPO always get a share to sell it to their customers first, look at dozens of other E*Trade IPO offering. They will only have a limited supply for people like us though, most of the "hot" IPOs are reserved for people with large accounts who trade often, yet keep the stocks for a while...
They probably have a 100 shares for this total, and E*Trade just found a way to get tons of new accounts open...
Note: I didn't write this, author is by Paul C. Contact me if you really need to reach him. (Wasn't sure if he would care if his address appeared here)
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200 rounds of ammo: $70
Two ski masks: $24
Two black trench coats: $260
Seeing the expression on your classmates' faces right before you blow their heads off--priceless.
There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's MasterCard.
They are working with Transmeta on "commercial projects, related to creating apparatus and programming environments for most modern calculating architechtures" (or something to this effect)
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Here in the Chicago area, they have also started radio advertising, asking people to bring in their software if they suspect it's pirated and they will check if it's authentic or not.
They compared unlicensed software to unlicensed motorists, and noted that you woudn't want one out of four drivers to be unlicensed, and that one out of every four microsoft products used in business is not licensed.
/Simon
Where can I find them? I searched IBM's site and didn't find anything, do they still make them?
/Simon
Are there any?
Please post...
/Simon
I am pretty sure SCO has bought all of itself out couple of years ago.
/Simon
Are you freaking joking? Did you look at them at all?
They are for large companies and HUGE traders, not for people who can't qualify for E*Trade...
/Simon
I think since most of us (geeks) don't actually read press releases all that often, and we jump on little details that are quite normal in the marketing/press release sense...
As I said, wish you the best... The only random comment about TurboLinux (w/out ever trying it): there seems to be a large number of different version numbers for different languages.. It seems like you develop one version and then take some time to "translate" it... At least that's what it looked like to me...
I actually mean to flame... WTF are you talking about?
What you are missing is that it bothers a lot of people in the Open Source community when an entity (be it a single person or a company like TurboLinux) misuses the statistics in a way that I would call a lie...
And no, your little disclaimer in the press release:
While the combined sales of all Windows 98 products including upgrades (see below) topped TurboLinux J 4.0 sales, the numbers clearly highlight TurboLinux's impressive presence and acceptance rates in the Japanese OS market.
Doesn't count because the title you used "...Outsells Windows 98..." is still false...
Also, your comment about "common business practice", that uses Micosoft as an example is very disturbing to me as well..
Please don't take me wrong, I wish you the best of luck, and will probably take a look at your TurboLinux distro some time in the near future myself...
Less then Windows, NT and DOS...
If you actually read the article you will see that this is very much not true...
/Simon
If you add up all Windows 98 percentages you will quickly see that (13.25 + 9.15 + 3.87 + 3.63 + 1.93) 31.83% is bigger then 24.09%
First of all it's not a successful IPO just yet.
Second, it's not like they are doing you a favor, this is normal... Companies that help bring the IPO always get a share to sell it to their customers first, look at dozens of other E*Trade IPO offering. They will only have a limited supply for people like us though, most of the "hot" IPOs are reserved for people with large accounts who trade often, yet keep the stocks for a while...
They probably have a 100 shares for this total, and E*Trade just found a way to get tons of new accounts open...
/Simon
Samba uses TCP/IP
Getting moderated down ;)
Note: I didn't write this, author is by Paul C.
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Contact me if you really need to reach him.
(Wasn't sure if he would care if his address appeared here)
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200 rounds of ammo: $70
Two ski masks: $24
Two black trench coats: $260
Seeing the expression on your classmates' faces right before you blow
their heads off--priceless.
There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's
MasterCard.
Johnny
Would you people stop talking about secret plots
by RH to take Linux over, it's just stupid.
RH is part of LSB, and when LSB becomes usabale
it won't matter which distribution you have.
/Seva
Floor is free, Linus' keynote is free,
There is no reason to pay for it unless you want to go to those Linux Global Summit sessions.
Take a look at this URL btw:
Chicago LUG Consortium's COMDEX/Spring Page
/Seva
They send it to the mailing list, pretty funny message too, it's probably on linuxtoday.com, go read it... /Seva
Yeah, AC is an expansion pack to Civ2, that sucks.
I expected something better...
/Seva
From the "about page":
They are working with Transmeta on "commercial projects, related to creating apparatus and programming environments for most modern calculating architechtures" (or something to this effect)
Interesting...
I was actualy looking at contest.gimp.org, /.
/.ed!" I said ;)
and since it's crawling slower then 2400 baud
I figured I'd check
First thing I see is the deb logo story.
"Fuck, contest.gimp.org is
/Seva
I suppose you could... but why?
May be selling Windows (to some dorks) and donating money to GNU will do something usefull, other then that...
Just make copies of your Linux or *BSD CDs and give them out on the street...
/Seva