Why does it have to be money.
Mundie said that open source is not viable because people will not be willing to make investments into it, so there wont be any innovation etc etc.
That 1.9 billion figure proves that people are making investments into open source, no matter if they are investments of money or effort.
Since software is a very labor intensive industry investments of labor are as usefull as ones of money.
So where is the false logic?
If you are going to call someone an idiot make sure you have thought your argument trough.
They know their readers just glance over the numbers.
and btw 417 is a small number. when you are talking about space u have to say at least thousands (preferably millions and billions).
Are they doing the same thing? I am not up to speed but i didnt know IBM did hosting services, i thought they just sold the machines.
In any event those companies may be heavyweights but they do not have the monopolies microsoft has.
Anybody else find this a bit depressing
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"These days he wears a smart suit, rather than a denim shirt and jeans. He is a manager, not a keyboard jockey. He last wrote a line of code, he says, in 1994. The super-fast Mercedes and an impractical military vehicle that previously belonged to Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Hollywood star, are gone; he now drives a low-key sport-utility vehicle instead. "
Any body else find this passage depressing? Its not that he has grown up as much as he has been assimilated made to conform.
Now he wears the suit and drives the SUV. A low key SUV, mind you (there is so much irony about an SUV being low key).
In a related matter isnt it hilarious that the Economist has to explain that Arnold is a Hollywood star. Not that any reader wouldnt know who arnold is but they would love to pretend they dont.
An article like this actually gives me some hope for the usefullness of today's media.
Here we have the biggest media whores of all Fox news, always willing to do anything to further Murdoch's conservative agenda, always willing to suck up to the prez and accuse any one that doesnt of treason.
And yet they actually run an informative article on a subject that is basicly taboo in most mass media.
Of course they did it for all the wrong reasons. They want to attack Hollins who has been quite aggresive pursuing the Enron people.
But still they wrote the article and somehow informed their audience of some important issues. Of course as an anti-SSSCA it is a pretty bad one. It does not really explain what exactly is wrong with the SSSCA. Instead in standard smear campain tactics describes some unrelated wrongdoings of the music industry (well they may be related somehow, but the article doesnt explain why and how).
The whole article is written in an annoying political commentary style, where it says "this may help republicans and hurt democrats", instead of saying "this legislation is bad for us we should not let it be enacted".
Yet i still thing this article is useful, because it brought up the subject in the mass media, an environment where it is basicly taboo.
The idea is to have a bunch of internet connected devices all with their own ip addresses. And each person may own several of those.
Also the allocation of IP addresses is not completely efficient. I dont remember exactly how it works, but there are groups of addresses differentiated by the first digits, and different organizations own those groups, so one group may be over crowded while others are empty.
The problem is that the courts did not agree with you about code and patents.
See there is this very old rule that you cannot patent mathematical formulas or physical laws. those things are said to be too abstract, and not really inventions.
When the problem of code started coming up, the courts decided that code is more like an abstract mathematical formula than a machine. I think the courts were quite wrong on that one, and they did not understand the true nature of software.
So they decided to make it unpatantable. I guees it is relevant that back then patents were a bit unpopular with the federal courts, who really disliked monopolies and limited patents whenever they could.
Because software is unpatentable copyright protection was sought.
Now software is patentable but copyright protection is widely used already. And it is free.
Although copyright lasts much longer than patents it is not as powerful as patents. You cannot copyright an idea although you can patent one.
So I dont think that copyrighting of code is that bad after all. It prevents you from copying code, but does not prevent you from doing essentially the same thing the same way if it is done with different code.
I used to know people that developed super computers back in eastern europe back before the curtain lifted.
And they used to put wheather predictions first on their list on potential uses of their computers.
In any event their computers were made exclusively for military purposes for russia.
No i am not calling you a liar but i want to point out that wheather predictions have been a cover up for military use for supercomputers for a very long time.
I dont even know whether we have any mathematical practical working mathematical models for pedicting the wheather that would make large ammounts of computing power useful.
By the huge "so spyware" sign on morpheus' webpage.
Because Morpheus is rightfully seen as a better software to have than Kazaa, they probably understood that if morpheus was on the same network, people will always prefer it.
During the primaries of both parties last election the police sought to make protesters irrelevant by designating them to dedicated protest zones, or the so called "Free speach zones" which were usually some parkinglot several blocks away from the convention.
Protesters kept out in such a way would be ignored by the media and would not be seen by the politicians and people they are trying to reach.
The majority of WRO protests have been peaceful, it is just that the media prefers to show destructive behaviour by few people. Protesters in Seattle accused undercover police for creating most of the destruction.
I am quite troubled that my government pays for research for crowd control measures. (you may as well call them population control).
While some sports fanatics may be a problem, they can be dealt by the usual police methods, of wearing riot gear and restricting them until their highs decrease.
Sports riots are also not a federal problem (unless they happen in dc which is bnot very likely). Also the UIS doesnt really have a serious sports riot problem, as opposed to some european countries.
These methods are clearly aimed at protesters. Which means that the government is using our taxpayer money to research new ways to silence its critics.
And that is very troubling.
Whatever you may think of the anti-WTO protesters for whom this invention is clearly made, i hope you will agree that people like them have the right to criticize the government, and make their voices heard.
"plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latestWindows computeroperating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems."
"Windows XP, and the business-oriented Windows 2000 system could not be redesigned to satisfy state demands that they be made available in separate versions, with and without key programs, such as the Internet Explorer Web browser. "
So they will not be able to develop any new os without an integrated browser.
The browser went from something that microsoft was not being developed when the current generation of OS were (at that time Bill Gates didnt even mention it in his book about the future (the road ahead)) to something that was so integral to the os that it would cause it to perform badly without it.
But its not over apperently, now the browser has become so important that it is IMPOSSIBLE to make an OS without a browser included in it.
Wow, just wow.
It would be interesting if MS ever develops OS for home appliances (toasters, etc), whether they will add a browser to it just to keep their lies consistent.
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i have found that many of those "hippies" are very well informed about how nuclear reactors work.
I learn more about nukes from then than from the average government or industry nuclear supporter.
Why does it have to be money. Mundie said that open source is not viable because people will not be willing to make investments into it, so there wont be any innovation etc etc. That 1.9 billion figure proves that people are making investments into open source, no matter if they are investments of money or effort. Since software is a very labor intensive industry investments of labor are as usefull as ones of money. So where is the false logic? If you are going to call someone an idiot make sure you have thought your argument trough.
But there are german open source developers as well.
Microsoft promised punishment for any PC maker that threatened to prepackage Netscape on their PCs.
"If the life is gone then how can we verify that it even existed at all?? "
You are so right. And to think of it until recently i believed the lies scientists told me about dynasours roaming the earth.
They know their readers just glance over the numbers. and btw 417 is a small number. when you are talking about space u have to say at least thousands (preferably millions and billions).
I have heard often that he is a mere figurehead, but if what you say is true he is not even good at being that.
Are they doing the same thing? I am not up to speed but i didnt know IBM did hosting services, i thought they just sold the machines. In any event those companies may be heavyweights but they do not have the monopolies microsoft has.
"These days he wears a smart suit, rather than a denim shirt and jeans. He is a manager, not a keyboard jockey. He last wrote a line of code, he says, in 1994. The super-fast Mercedes and an impractical military vehicle that previously belonged to Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Hollywood star, are gone; he now drives a low-key sport-utility vehicle instead.
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Any body else find this passage depressing? Its not that he has grown up as much as he has been assimilated made to conform.
Now he wears the suit and drives the SUV. A low key SUV, mind you (there is so much irony about an SUV being low key).
In a related matter isnt it hilarious that the Economist has to explain that Arnold is a Hollywood star. Not that any reader wouldnt know who arnold is but they would love to pretend they dont.
"Another decision, made early on, was that the new firm should not compete with Microsoft. "
It is really nice of mr Andersen (i know its misspelled) to think that he can choose not to compete with Microsoft, but that is not how things work.
He was not trying to compete with microsoft when he made netscape either.
Ultimately microsoft decides whether you compete with them or not.
So i think he should have said. "another desicision, made early on was to pray that microsoft doesnt come in and destroy our bussiness again".
We have the capability to make weapons of mass destruction, and we do make them. Does that mean that some else has the right to use nukes against us?
Can i trust slashdot for good quality MS bashing now? I dont know ...
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This article never really gives a good coherent explanation of why the SSSCA is wrong.
An article like this actually gives me some hope for the usefullness of today's media.
Here we have the biggest media whores of all Fox news, always willing to do anything to further Murdoch's conservative agenda, always willing to suck up to the prez and accuse any one that doesnt of treason.
And yet they actually run an informative article on a subject that is basicly taboo in most mass media.
Of course they did it for all the wrong reasons. They want to attack Hollins who has been quite aggresive pursuing the Enron people.
But still they wrote the article and somehow informed their audience of some important issues. Of course as an anti-SSSCA it is a pretty bad one. It does not really explain what exactly is wrong with the SSSCA. Instead in standard smear campain tactics describes some unrelated wrongdoings of the music industry (well they may be related somehow, but the article doesnt explain why and how).
The whole article is written in an annoying political commentary style, where it says "this may help republicans and hurt democrats", instead of saying "this legislation is bad for us we should not let it be enacted".
Yet i still thing this article is useful, because it brought up the subject in the mass media, an environment where it is basicly taboo.
The idea is to have a bunch of internet connected devices all with their own ip addresses. And each person may own several of those.
Also the allocation of IP addresses is not completely efficient. I dont remember exactly how it works, but there are groups of addresses differentiated by the first digits, and different organizations own those groups, so one group may be over crowded while others are empty.
The problem is that the courts did not agree with you about code and patents. See there is this very old rule that you cannot patent mathematical formulas or physical laws. those things are said to be too abstract, and not really inventions. When the problem of code started coming up, the courts decided that code is more like an abstract mathematical formula than a machine. I think the courts were quite wrong on that one, and they did not understand the true nature of software. So they decided to make it unpatantable. I guees it is relevant that back then patents were a bit unpopular with the federal courts, who really disliked monopolies and limited patents whenever they could. Because software is unpatentable copyright protection was sought. Now software is patentable but copyright protection is widely used already. And it is free. Although copyright lasts much longer than patents it is not as powerful as patents. You cannot copyright an idea although you can patent one. So I dont think that copyrighting of code is that bad after all. It prevents you from copying code, but does not prevent you from doing essentially the same thing the same way if it is done with different code.
ignore one of the mathematicals i guess:)
and i will start using preview.
I used to know people that developed super computers back in eastern europe back before the curtain lifted. And they used to put wheather predictions first on their list on potential uses of their computers. In any event their computers were made exclusively for military purposes for russia. No i am not calling you a liar but i want to point out that wheather predictions have been a cover up for military use for supercomputers for a very long time. I dont even know whether we have any mathematical practical working mathematical models for pedicting the wheather that would make large ammounts of computing power useful.
And they did it intentionally. Hopefully he can understand what is wrong with that even though he is not a lawyer.
By the huge "so spyware" sign on morpheus' webpage. Because Morpheus is rightfully seen as a better software to have than Kazaa, they probably understood that if morpheus was on the same network, people will always prefer it.
During the primaries of both parties last election the police sought to make protesters irrelevant by designating them to dedicated protest zones, or the so called "Free speach zones" which were usually some parkinglot several blocks away from the convention.
Protesters kept out in such a way would be ignored by the media and would not be seen by the politicians and people they are trying to reach.
The majority of WRO protests have been peaceful, it is just that the media prefers to show destructive behaviour by few people. Protesters in Seattle accused undercover police for creating most of the destruction.
I am quite troubled that my government pays for research for crowd control measures. (you may as well call them population control).
While some sports fanatics may be a problem, they can be dealt by the usual police methods, of wearing riot gear and restricting them until their highs decrease.
Sports riots are also not a federal problem (unless they happen in dc which is bnot very likely). Also the UIS doesnt really have a serious sports riot problem, as opposed to some european countries.
These methods are clearly aimed at protesters. Which means that the government is using our taxpayer money to research new ways to silence its critics.
And that is very troubling.
Whatever you may think of the anti-WTO protesters for whom this invention is clearly made, i hope you will agree that people like them have the right to criticize the government, and make their voices heard.
He did not say they wont he said they can't. There is a difference.
By the way nobody seriosly considers that microsoft will leave that bussiness on their own.
Nobody leaves a factory for printing money.
Oh and there is no way that a browser and a media player are so tightly integrated with the os.
The os simply does not do the things browsers and media players do.
"plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latestWindows computeroperating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems."
"Windows XP, and the business-oriented Windows 2000 system could not be redesigned to satisfy state demands that they be made available in separate versions, with and without key programs, such as the Internet Explorer Web browser. "
So they will not be able to develop any new os without an integrated browser.
The browser went from something that microsoft was not being developed when the current generation of OS were (at that time Bill Gates didnt even mention it in his book about the future (the road ahead)) to something that was so integral to the os that it would cause it to perform badly without it.
But its not over apperently, now the browser has become so important that it is IMPOSSIBLE to make an OS without a browser included in it.
Wow, just wow.
It would be interesting if MS ever develops OS for home appliances (toasters, etc), whether they will add a browser to it just to keep their lies consistent.