After the interview, RMS said that the President was 'receptive' to his views that development of software should be seen as a political and social issue and not just from the technological point of view.
Actually, daddy Gates Sr. was very charitable and asked his son what useful things he had done. WHen the answer was MS the question was asked again what USEFUL things have you done. It was something along those lines by the magazine article about the foundation.
The criteria for a Knighthood are well established. I.e. You must excel for an extended period at something that the Quean find important. That's all. Note that "Quean" refers not just to 'liz, but also the battalion of "advisors" that command her.
I would guess that there are additional requirements beyond that. Perhaps service to the common good et... In that case perhaps it should be Sir William Gates and Lady Melissa Gates. Both of them and their efforts at the gates foundation have made a tremendous difference anywhere they set up operations. Congratulations Sir William, sorry about being slighted Lady Melissa.
International law is as enforceable as international opinion is. The international opinion was that at the time we went into Iraq we were not justified. Bush went ahead with it anyway showing what he regards about international anything. As a soldier and veteran of his daddies war I can think of more than 500 reasons to impeach GB Jr.
Or even had your elected representative vote on a speed limit?
You have that every day. Everytime your elected official goes to work and accepts the things he sees without question, he has decided that they are fine the way they sit. When is the last time you mentioned speed limits to your representatives? Democracy is there and must be practiced. If five percent of the people could answer that thye spoke to their representative about ANYTHING in the last year, John Ashcroft would be a quieter man and maybe we would not have gone to war against the wishes of the entire world.
Before flaming me, just know I am not a hippy rather a veteran of Desert Shield who believes in democratic principles as they are no longer practiced.
But let me say, I hope the use does this. Do I think we should be monitored...no. Do I think they will really be capable of using this...no. Do I think that this 200MB wireless network will be secure....Hell No. I think it will be free ISP for me!
Indeed it should. Send the average win9x user a 650 MB file named ostrash.exe (but secretly it is the RH 9 install disk). Most win 9x users will spend 6 hours downloading it, then run it finally they will call their sysadmin asking what is a root password?
It takes a slight stretch of imagination to go from "Linux is not Unix" to LNU. I guess someone that can't even figure out how to get a/. account would not have that slight bit of imagination.
Apperantly your SCO machines are time machines.
SCO has only been around 12 years!
You are right. On researching it in my company (I have been here only three years). I took them at their word that it is the same setup they have had for twenty years, but up until 8 years ago they were running AIX. Regardless of 20 or 2 years or even one year, the fact remains we switched. A customer was lost.
The company I work for uses custom software programmed in Business BASIC. They have used this software running exclusively on SCO for around 20 years now. The MIS Director decided that McBrides attitudes on business, customer service and innovation are surely SCOs doom. I have spent the last month preparing my Red Hat server to take over in production I will implement it in Jan 04. No more SCO....ever. That was my guidance from above.
When will he fix the critical bugs in the system so we can actually use it?
If you were serious on that you would have someone in your company participating in kernel development. Seriously, if something is imperative to fix in the kernel to you. If you bring up to the kernel community in the appropriate manner it will likely get addressed. Microsoft, Sco and Sun won't give that kind of a nod to someone who is still running NT3.5.
We are now concidering wether to get a Windows 2003 server, Solaris 10 or a Linux Enterprise server. Concidering the high profile bugs that exploited key Linux websites, and the increasing ligitation against it, we do not think we should use Linux in such an environment where we need uninterrupted operation. We do not need kernel panics, root exploits, and we ceraintley don't want to put our precious source code at risk of espenage because of the Legal bindings of Linux.
Considering your unfounded (thus ill informed) paranoia of Linux you should not go with Linux, due to frequent typos you should stick with GUI. I would say Win 2003 is a right fit for you and it is a very solid platform. There is probably no reason for your company to switch. BTW, if your business will die in one second minus a server...look closely at your business procedures they need tweaked.
Doesn't anyone else find it weird that Microsoft is starting to imitate third-party firewall and anti-virus software functions that protect Microsoft product users from the results of using Microsoft products?
I wonder if Paul Allen will want to be the first Private citizen into space with the first privately built space ship.
It is good to see people with his kind of wealth putting it to work for society. The benefits of a private space market will be....well more benefits than you could imagine. (sorry about the star wars thing) If his reason for doing this is just to get to be 'first inspace in a privately owned vehicle' well then, I wish him the best of luck!
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After the interview, RMS said that the President was 'receptive' to his views that development of software should be seen as a political and social issue and not just from the technological point of view.
A nation of fanatics and zealots...how novel.
I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network...
Sure they can take radiation, butblaster....I don't know.
Actually, daddy Gates Sr. was very charitable and asked his son what useful things he had done. WHen the answer was MS the question was asked again what USEFUL things have you done. It was something along those lines by the magazine article about the foundation.
Oops forgot it is melinda(person) not melissa(virus)
The criteria for a Knighthood are well established. I.e. You must excel for an extended period at something that the Quean find important. That's all. Note that "Quean" refers not just to 'liz, but also the battalion of "advisors" that command her.
I would guess that there are additional requirements beyond that. Perhaps service to the common good et... In that case perhaps it should be Sir William Gates and Lady Melissa Gates. Both of them and their efforts at the gates foundation have made a tremendous difference anywhere they set up operations. Congratulations Sir William, sorry about being slighted Lady Melissa.
on the SCO shenanigans
I was wondering when it would finally be called!
International law is as enforceable as international opinion is. The international opinion was that at the time we went into Iraq we were not justified. Bush went ahead with it anyway showing what he regards about international anything. As a soldier and veteran of his daddies war I can think of more than 500 reasons to impeach GB Jr.
since when does international law mean anything?
It hasn't since the election of 2000. That is why we are in Iraq.
Or even had your elected representative vote on a speed limit?
You have that every day. Everytime your elected official goes to work and accepts the things he sees without question, he has decided that they are fine the way they sit. When is the last time you mentioned speed limits to your representatives? Democracy is there and must be practiced. If five percent of the people could answer that thye spoke to their representative about ANYTHING in the last year, John Ashcroft would be a quieter man and maybe we would not have gone to war against the wishes of the entire world.
Before flaming me, just know I am not a hippy rather a veteran of Desert Shield who believes in democratic principles as they are no longer practiced.
But let me say, I hope the use does this. Do I think we should be monitored...no. Do I think they will really be capable of using this...no. Do I think that this 200MB wireless network will be secure ....Hell No. I think it will be free ISP for me!
Nice.
But can they make a new non-stick pan surface out of it?
....would it matter?
Maybe, but if your omelet were not stuck to the pan, but instead weighed 6,353 tons
Einstein and Newton were crazy too, and they didn't exactly have many peers at first
Do they have many peers now? Seriously, how many people were ever qualified to consider themselves peers to those two names?
Win9x should be more straight forward
Indeed it should. Send the average win9x user a 650 MB file named ostrash.exe (but secretly it is the RH 9 install disk). Most win 9x users will spend 6 hours downloading it, then run it finally they will call their sysadmin asking what is a root password?
It takes a slight stretch of imagination to go from "Linux is not Unix" to LNU. I guess someone that can't even figure out how to get a /. account would not have that slight bit of imagination.
Apperantly your SCO machines are time machines. SCO has only been around 12 years!
You are right. On researching it in my company (I have been here only three years). I took them at their word that it is the same setup they have had for twenty years, but up until 8 years ago they were running AIX. Regardless of 20 or 2 years or even one year, the fact remains we switched. A customer was lost.
I don't work on a very inspiring product
I don't like what they are doing, I don't know what they are doing. I don't like what I am doing.
You stay because no one else would want you.
Finally top it off with a "linux is not unix" and hasn't been proven in a court of law to be anyway.
;-)
Please no more recursive acronyms
The company I work for uses custom software programmed in Business BASIC. They have used this software running exclusively on SCO for around 20 years now. The MIS Director decided that McBrides attitudes on business, customer service and innovation are surely SCOs doom. I have spent the last month preparing my Red Hat server to take over in production I will implement it in Jan 04. No more SCO....ever. That was my guidance from above.
When will he fix the critical bugs in the system so we can actually use it?
If you were serious on that you would have someone in your company participating in kernel development. Seriously, if something is imperative to fix in the kernel to you. If you bring up to the kernel community in the appropriate manner it will likely get addressed. Microsoft, Sco and Sun won't give that kind of a nod to someone who is still running NT3.5.
We are now concidering wether to get a Windows 2003 server, Solaris 10 or a Linux Enterprise server. Concidering the high profile bugs that exploited key Linux websites, and the increasing ligitation against it, we do not think we should use Linux in such an environment where we need uninterrupted operation. We do not need kernel panics, root exploits, and we ceraintley don't want to put our precious source code at risk of espenage because of the Legal bindings of Linux.
Considering your unfounded (thus ill informed) paranoia of Linux you should not go with Linux, due to frequent typos you should stick with GUI. I would say Win 2003 is a right fit for you and it is a very solid platform. There is probably no reason for your company to switch. BTW, if your business will die in one second minus a server...look closely at your business procedures they need tweaked.
Doesn't anyone else find it weird that Microsoft is starting to imitate third-party firewall and anti-virus software functions that protect Microsoft product users from the results of using Microsoft products?
Wow! That is a truly insightful post.
I just felt that yeah, the battles were pretty
:-)
The battle scene was three hours long, and yes it was a good one
And how come we don't hear people saying that "we" should move to *BSD while this is going on, showing SCO that we rather not use Linux than pay them?
Or Solaris? Viable alternative, proven support.... Nope I prefer Linux, just asking the question.
I wonder if Paul Allen will want to be the first Private citizen into space with the first privately built space ship.
It is good to see people with his kind of wealth putting it to work for society. The benefits of a private space market will be....well more benefits than you could imagine. (sorry about the star wars thing) If his reason for doing this is just to get to be 'first inspace in a privately owned vehicle' well then, I wish him the best of luck!
Was that the sound of the personal firewall market dying?
If MS ever kills the firewall market it is likely to sound like Tinkerbell and fairydust (or some other unbelievable phenomenon.