What they can't emulate is the ideas that come from a grass-roots community. If any one person has an idea, they can start to work on it. They have a huge body of software to research and re-use code from, and if they can demonstrate something that other people find useful, they can quickly gather programmers to the project.
Uhm, every seen a skunkworks project?
Unless a turf warrior detects an unapproved project and complains to management and gets it killed, a stealth project can get the same sort of
momentum as OSS by showing results.
According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theaters. The company predicted that its efforts could cut movie piracy by 50 percent.
That number may be high. Leaks from theaters frequently involve copies that are created in cooperation with insiders, rather than footage shot surreptitiously from the fifth row. Schumann conceded that the 50 percent number is not based on thorough market research but is simply "our own estimate."
NIST must be having a going out of bizness sale or
something if this is acceptable language in a
winning grant proposal.
"For a closed-source company competing with open-source companies, the
optimum
strategy is often to use its illegal user base in addition to its legal user base."
Somehow my first scan of that statement resulted in
opium strategy.
We need to have microsoft constantly chasing after US to keep up to date with the existing "standards", not the other way around
If you follow any standard dev lists you will notice a fair
amount of participation by Microsoft. They are very
aware of open standards but in most cases use
their market power to create de facto standards or
extensions.
An effective ( and accepted ) "open standard" license that prevents Microsoft from using these
tactics is the only way to beat them at the
standards game.
How *NIX grognards always complain about multi-threading, but don't find signals (and their nasty interrupt-driven nature) to be the least bit unsettling!
[TMBAT]
Signals and their associated damage ( EINTR )
are one of the blights of Unix, I don't know
of many new programs that use signals for anything
other than a primitive event or control mechanism.
and yes there are thousand of american companies making money there.
MS loves the idea of making money selling enabling
technology to the Chineese gummint to help them
repress their citizens.
Now that AOL has shown the way I'm sure lots of
corporations will see that there is plenty of
money to be made assisting human rights abuses
and control of information.
Slashdot Mirror
Steve "Spooner" Balmer strikes again.
Uhm, every seen a skunkworks project?
Unless a turf warrior detects an unapproved project and complains to management and gets it killed, a stealth project can get the same sort of momentum as OSS by showing results.
A bug in your system lexer or parser generator could probably result in a pretty serious exploit wrt this feature.
According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theaters. The company predicted that its efforts could cut movie piracy by 50 percent.
That number may be high. Leaks from theaters frequently involve copies that are created in cooperation with insiders, rather than footage shot surreptitiously from the fifth row. Schumann conceded that the 50 percent number is not based on thorough market research but is simply "our own estimate."
NIST must be having a going out of bizness sale or something if this is acceptable language in a winning grant proposal.
Every 'java' is replaced by:
http://ocw.mit.edu/6/6.170/f01/tools/index.html
adds a little TM symbol to every 'java'.
Results in pages that read like Scientology Fan Fiction
Somehow my first scan of that statement resulted in opium strategy.
...
...
quack. quack. quack! quack! quack!
DRM protects the consumer.
quack. quack. quack! quack! quack!
An effective ( and accepted ) "open standard" license that prevents Microsoft from using these tactics is the only way to beat them at the standards game.
Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!
Most helpdesk, support employees I encounter are nice enough people who have very little knowledge.
I'd rather gnaw my own arm off than call support with a problem.
Signals and their associated damage ( EINTR ) are one of the blights of Unix, I don't know of many new programs that use signals for anything other than a primitive event or control mechanism.
2. Willpower is required to lose weight.
3. Fat people cannot lose weight.
The only known exceptions involve involuntary starvation or meth.
So pray for famine or start a drug habit and talk to me again.
MS loves the idea of making money selling enabling technology to the Chineese gummint to help them repress their citizens.
Now that AOL has shown the way I'm sure lots of corporations will see that there is plenty of money to be made assisting human rights abuses and control of information.
Are your sure? I've become convinced that all episodes except ESB are pure garbage that I only enjoyed the first time because I was so young.
So it is the worst episode... excepting the others.