Couldn't someone get together a blacklist of RIAA and record company IPs and incorporate them into P2P programs?
Damn, I love how smart our Senators are. They're 1337. Almost as smart as the RIAA and recording company lusers who think that making a PC unable to play a CD will stop digital media sharing...
Only one person has to find a way to rip it...
And don't ya think they've spent a couple hundred big ones on that scheme?
I *was* being a bit general there, but that's how it is for me. Although I've worked on 2000 and XP, I haven't installed either on my home system -- I stopped at 98 and use it for games alone.
I'm building Gentoo as we speak. =D
MS certainly has it's advantages. But look how far Linux has come in the last 2-3 years. It'll have no problem catching up in the next few, what with the growing popularity (and thus programmer base, hopefully).
I'd venture to say that for normal use, a RH 7.x desktop with Ximian Gnome is easier to use than windows. But that's my opinion, and I'm not Joe Public.
Just like music artists who turn over their copyright to the recording companies.
*sigh* I wish we could all do something to take back our lives from the corporations. I'm being *very* general here, BTW, I don't care to be flamebait. But in my own little, shallow mind, it seems like the corps. are slowly taking over everything.
But I have faith in humanity.
Which makes me a stupid, ignorant, cynical optimist. =)
This is something I've never really thought about, but it makes a *lot* of sense!
Thanks!
I know I'm kicking a dead horse, but I just wish that he would concentrate on new features and a little more stability than new features and market domination.
Microsoft -= management; Microsoft += programmers;
From what I understand, they have a very very good programmer base. If Ballmer would quit telling them to ship and management would grow a brain, maybe I'd be the next poster child for MS.
Market domination = management's issue, as I see it. Buggy releases = management's issue, as I see it (assuming that the issue of MS having good programmers is true).
If we could just get rid of MS management, maybe this would all clear up.
Excuse me, I wasn't clear on enought of these, and I will conceed one point:
"The MS EULA forbids you to run GPL'd software on XP." I conceed this point. I was aware at one point that this was at least planned - I recall not only reading about it online, but I remember a panel discussion on Silicon Spin about this where this point was brought up.
"A) Palladium will only let "authorized" programs run on your computer." Read the news article linked to from/. the other day.
"B) This rewriting of code would be very easy to lock Linux out with. Change the APIs for new programs, but make it backwards compatible for old and give developers incentive to use the new." This was mostly refering to Wine, but not exclusively. If new programs are developed under a new API and become standard, Wine is useless for the masses. MS can also shut out Samba and OpenOffice, etc., with the rewriting of code in Office, etc, which they are planning.
"The EULA." Sorry, again =\. This was based off many a conversation I've had and what I recall on the news just before the XP release.
"Collusion to split the market." See Netscape's charges in the anti-trust case.
"Bullying tactics (e.g. see Compaq's issue with desktop icons)." From ZDNet: "...Microsoft agreed to allow computer makers to remove the desktop icon for Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser... The move was sparked by complaints from companies such as Compaq Computer Corp., which had been told that their license for Windows software would be revoked if they removed the Explorer icon." Revoking a licence for removing an icon? That would put a very, very large dent in Compaq's revenue (what Joe Publics do you know that buy a comp. with no OS?). And for removing an *icon*? If that's not bullying, I don't know what is.
"...their latest moves will only give them more power..." See notes on Palladium and Longhorn
"...to enforce what they want in the name of "Ease of use" Longhorn
"privacy (heh) and security." Palladium
"I don't think it is unfair to hold them to what they've been doing all along." Prove me wrong.
Mmmm. Marketing strategy...
Linux folks:
-Free license
-Free updates
-Compatible with today's MS standards and even more compatible with real standards.
-Fast, stable, security for paranoids and conspiracy theorists (*points to the/. crowd).
-Good company-backed support
Microsoft:
-We've, uh, got Office
-.NET! Woohoo!
-Pretty colors?
There are also times when it is well earned.
The MS EULA forbids you to run GPL'd software on XP.
A) Palladium will only let "authorized" programs run on your computer.
B) This rewriting of code would be very easy to lock Linux out with. Change the APIs for new programs, but make it backwards compatible for old and give developers incentive to use the new.
Now given their track record, which I hope you're familiar with, you don't think it's OK to whine about this?
Friend: MS has proven they'll do *anything* to kill off competition. The EULA. Collusion to split the market. Bullying tactics (e.g. see Compaq's issue with desktop icons). They've earned themselves a reputation for doing what they want, and their latest moves will only give them more power to enforce what they want in the name of "Ease of use, privacy (heh) and security."
I don't think it is unfair to hold them to what they've been doing all along. There is no reason to close your eyes and say, "I hate Microsoft," either. They might fly right. Maybe, just maybe, they'll figure out that they can only go so far.
It is my opinion that they probably won't, but that won't stop me from continuing to watch Microsoft with an open mind. Supposition doesn't imply conclusion.
Besides support and a centralized place of interaction (as opposed to forums, news groups, etc.), how is the quality going to be better?
It seems like his intentions are to continue to contribute their work back to the community.
Until the day comes (God, I hope not) when a completely different OS is derived from Linux (and becomes popular) and breaks off from the community, I don't see how any distribution could get ahead of any of the others except for pure lack of competence in it's competition. That's a trend I have yet to see in the Linux community.
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Well, they could engineer their own client to fake MD5 hashes...
::sigh::
But that would be reverse engineering, which is gonna be illegal soon, anyway!
Couldn't someone get together a blacklist of RIAA and record company IPs and incorporate them into P2P programs?
Damn, I love how smart our Senators are. They're 1337. Almost as smart as the RIAA and recording company lusers who think that making a PC unable to play a CD will stop digital media sharing...
Only one person has to find a way to rip it...
And don't ya think they've spent a couple hundred big ones on that scheme?
Cheers on the 6 months! =)
I *was* being a bit general there, but that's how it is for me. Although I've worked on 2000 and XP, I haven't installed either on my home system -- I stopped at 98 and use it for games alone.
I'm building Gentoo as we speak. =D
MS certainly has it's advantages. But look how far Linux has come in the last 2-3 years. It'll have no problem catching up in the next few, what with the growing popularity (and thus programmer base, hopefully).
I'd venture to say that for normal use, a RH 7.x desktop with Ximian Gnome is easier to use than windows. But that's my opinion, and I'm not Joe Public.
I'd sacrifice ease of MS driver handling for modules for the following reason:
"Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the changes to take effect. Reboot now? [OK]"
I change my system settings more than I change my hardware.
Just like music artists who turn over their copyright to the recording companies.
*sigh* I wish we could all do something to take back our lives from the corporations. I'm being *very* general here, BTW, I don't care to be flamebait. But in my own little, shallow mind, it seems like the corps. are slowly taking over everything.
But I have faith in humanity.
Which makes me a stupid, ignorant, cynical optimist. =)
open("SDinput", STDIN);
my $line = (<SDinput>);
close("SDinput");
$line =~ s/this/any/;
print $line;
This is something I've never really thought about, but it makes a *lot* of sense!
Thanks!
I know I'm kicking a dead horse, but I just wish that he would concentrate on new features and a little more stability than new features and market domination.
Microsoft -= management;
Microsoft += programmers;
From what I understand, they have a very very good programmer base. If Ballmer would quit telling them to ship and management would grow a brain, maybe I'd be the next poster child for MS.
Market domination = management's issue, as I see it.
Buggy releases = management's issue, as I see it (assuming that the issue of MS having good programmers is true).
If we could just get rid of MS management, maybe this would all clear up.
Thoughts? I'd like some feedback on this.
Excuse me, I wasn't clear on enought of these, and I will conceed one point:
/. the other day.
"The MS EULA forbids you to run GPL'd software on XP."
I conceed this point. I was aware at one point that this was at least planned - I recall not only reading about it online, but I remember a panel discussion on Silicon Spin about this where this point was brought up.
"A) Palladium will only let "authorized" programs run on your computer."
Read the news article linked to from
"B) This rewriting of code would be very easy to lock Linux out with. Change the APIs for new programs, but make it backwards compatible for old and give developers incentive to use the new."
This was mostly refering to Wine, but not exclusively. If new programs are developed under a new API and become standard, Wine is useless for the masses. MS can also shut out Samba and OpenOffice, etc., with the rewriting of code in Office, etc, which they are planning.
"The EULA."
Sorry, again =\. This was based off many a conversation I've had and what I recall on the news just before the XP release.
"Collusion to split the market."
See Netscape's charges in the anti-trust case.
"Bullying tactics (e.g. see Compaq's issue with desktop icons)."
From ZDNet:
"...Microsoft agreed to allow computer makers to remove the desktop icon for Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser... The move was sparked by complaints from companies such as Compaq Computer Corp., which had been told that their license for Windows software would be revoked if they removed the Explorer icon."
Revoking a licence for removing an icon? That would put a very, very large dent in Compaq's revenue (what Joe Publics do you know that buy a comp. with no OS?). And for removing an *icon*? If that's not bullying, I don't know what is.
"...their latest moves will only give them more power..."
See notes on Palladium and Longhorn
"...to enforce what they want in the name of "Ease of use"
Longhorn
"privacy (heh) and security."
Palladium
"I don't think it is unfair to hold them to what they've been doing all along."
Prove me wrong.
Mmmm. Marketing strategy... Linux folks: -Free license -Free updates -Compatible with today's MS standards and even more compatible with real standards. -Fast, stable, security for paranoids and conspiracy theorists (*points to the /. crowd).
-Good company-backed support
Microsoft:
-We've, uh, got Office
-.NET! Woohoo!
-Pretty colors?
There are also times when it is well earned. The MS EULA forbids you to run GPL'd software on XP. A) Palladium will only let "authorized" programs run on your computer. B) This rewriting of code would be very easy to lock Linux out with. Change the APIs for new programs, but make it backwards compatible for old and give developers incentive to use the new. Now given their track record, which I hope you're familiar with, you don't think it's OK to whine about this? Friend: MS has proven they'll do *anything* to kill off competition. The EULA. Collusion to split the market. Bullying tactics (e.g. see Compaq's issue with desktop icons). They've earned themselves a reputation for doing what they want, and their latest moves will only give them more power to enforce what they want in the name of "Ease of use, privacy (heh) and security." I don't think it is unfair to hold them to what they've been doing all along. There is no reason to close your eyes and say, "I hate Microsoft," either. They might fly right. Maybe, just maybe, they'll figure out that they can only go so far. It is my opinion that they probably won't, but that won't stop me from continuing to watch Microsoft with an open mind. Supposition doesn't imply conclusion.
Besides support and a centralized place of interaction (as opposed to forums, news groups, etc.), how is the quality going to be better?
It seems like his intentions are to continue to contribute their work back to the community.
Until the day comes (God, I hope not) when a completely different OS is derived from Linux (and becomes popular) and breaks off from the community, I don't see how any distribution could get ahead of any of the others except for pure lack of competence in it's competition. That's a trend I have yet to see in the Linux community.