I agree. A friend and I set up a Linux server for a small company here in Melbourne, and we've only visited them a few times since. Mind you, I do worry -- what chance does such a small company have keeping up with security updates, etc? Of course, the same risks exist with NT or any other OS, but I like to think we can provide a _better_ solution, and I don't think this problem has been solved well just yet.
Unless companies consider server services like other utilities (power, water, etc) and just buy server capacity from a supplier, eg. SANs, cable to the home/biz, etc. In this scenario, you can have both a cheap service (provided by Linux) with good security (since it is administered by the supplier's expertise).
As for the comment about this pic making us look bad -- remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity!:-)
The introduction to CCD is extremely surreal. Are we to believe that this is a factual preface, or part of the story? I suspect the later is the case.
Nonetheless, as you point out, Bonehead is most certainly the same story as Acts, so how can he resell the first story as part of the second? Or perhaps he emphasises Bees more in CCD, using Acts only as a contrast.
Is Sundman on slashdot? Does he care to answer exactly how CCD superceeds Acts?
Nice try. Had me going for a couple of minutes -- right down to the patent on "getting a community together and selling out to a company that IPOs months later":-)
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a bunch of nut cases...
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(a power plant run by nut cases?
I agree. A friend and I set up a Linux server for a small company here in Melbourne, and we've only visited them a few times since. Mind you, I do worry -- what chance does such a small company have keeping up with security updates, etc? Of course, the same risks exist with NT or any other OS, but I like to think we can provide a _better_ solution, and I don't think this problem has been solved well just yet.
:-)
Unless companies consider server services like other utilities (power, water, etc) and just buy server capacity from a supplier, eg. SANs, cable to the home/biz, etc. In this scenario, you can have both a cheap service (provided by Linux) with good security (since it is administered by the supplier's expertise).
As for the comment about this pic making us look bad -- remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity!
The introduction to CCD is extremely surreal. Are we to believe that this is a factual preface, or part of the story? I suspect the later is the case.
Nonetheless, as you point out, Bonehead is most certainly the same story as Acts, so how can he
resell the first story as part of the second? Or perhaps he emphasises Bees more in CCD, using Acts only as a contrast.
Is Sundman on slashdot? Does he care to answer exactly how CCD superceeds Acts?
Nice try. Had me going for a couple of minutes -- right down to the patent on "getting a community together and selling out to a company that IPOs months later" :-)
;-)
Definitely worth a read and a laugh