From the article,
Netproject's Eddie Bleasdale says his consultancy was used as a negotiating tool to get a better deal out of Microsoft. He argues that the council never really intended to deploy an open source solution at all - because it doesn't have the expertise to do so.
This wouldn't be the first time. How many times have we seen governments and large corporations fake the move to OSS only to get a better deal from MS?
For those confused about whether pirated versions of XP will be allowed to installed the service pack, the answer is mostly no. If you have either the famouse FCK key or a few of the leaked corporate keys, for instance, you won't be able to install SP2.
According to one MS employee, if you were rejected when installing SP1, you will be rejected when installing SP2.
You will be excepted, however, if you've installed XP on multiple machines using a single CD. This appears to be the 'piracy' they're overlooking.
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I'd say your mostly right, with the exception of fundamentalist Christians. We're trying too hard there to make all fundy groups sound bad. Think about it, fundamentalists Christians are people like Billy Graham and Pat Robertson. The closest thing I can think of is some wild hick bombing an abortion clinic, but even that happens rarely (once a year at most?) and is looked down upon by people like Robertson and Graham. Not trying to minimalize the horrific act of bombing an abortion clinic, just trying differentiate fundamentalist Christians (generally peaceful people) with fundamentalist Muslims (carrying out bombings almost daily in Israel, kidnapping and murdering Americans in Iraq and worldwide).
I do heartily agree about the mindset in Europe though. It's sad to see anti-semitism rising there once again.
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While it doesn't excuse any government for arresting a man, anti-semitic speech is always a bad thing, war time or no.
Come one come all 'Cause we're havin' a ball We're just makin' some calls To strangers
We're just havin' some fun You can say want you want And they'll never know if your deranged Or what
But it doesn't really matter No it doesn't really matter 'Cause we'll all be doubled over with laughter at The expense of others Maybe even your mother Won't you join the VOIP Yankers today?
Of course that means your apps will look like everyone else's and reduces your competative advantage.
I disagree, people don't typically like strange custom GUIs. People like things that are familiar to them, they find it easier to use. Personally I despise non-standard UI apps.
Oh yes it's not unfair to say Microsoft is the root of all the world's problems, since we have evidence to prove so.
That's the whole problem that you fail to see: everyone has evidence against their enemy. Tocqueville just posted "evidence" that OSS/FS is the root of all problems, but you ignore it, and probably rightfully so. Why do you ignore it? Because it's biased bull shit.
The same goes for your 'evidence'. Microsoft is the cause of all evil. Right. Biased bull shit.
What's your point? This kind of over-generalization and mud slinging doesn't help anyone. It's biased unfair bullshit regardless of whether a Microsoft rubber stamper or a Linux zealot is doing it.
So, there you have it, free software is responsible for bad laws, out sourcing and bad hair days."
That is unfair, sure. But it is the same kind of generalizing bull shit Linux zealots have been pulling regarding Microsoft, that is is responsible for all the evils of the world.
Mod me down if you must, but it's the honest truth. Generalizing groups of people, companies, or ideas is always unfair biased bull shit.
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That's less than half an ounce, for us American folk. :-)
From the article, Netproject's Eddie Bleasdale says his consultancy was used as a negotiating tool to get a better deal out of Microsoft. He argues that the council never really intended to deploy an open source solution at all - because it doesn't have the expertise to do so. This wouldn't be the first time. How many times have we seen governments and large corporations fake the move to OSS only to get a better deal from MS?
Number of slashdotters that took the time to read that long headline on a lazy saturday afternoon: 0
Microsoft: hardware will be essentially free, software will pay the bills.
OSS: software will be free, services will pay the bills.
Apple: software will be essentially free, hardware will pay the bills.
Sun: hardware will be essentially free, services and software will pay the bills.
Me: businesses will make money any way they can.
If you have physical access to a Win XP machine that is on the wireless network how can you obtain the WEP pswd
Type 'network'. If that doesn't work, open a browser window and type file:///c:/windows/system32/format%20c:/
Wal * Mart is the Devil's Own Store. That is until it sells Linux machines and it becomes a acceptable part of the Linux 'world domination'
For those confused about whether pirated versions of XP will be allowed to installed the service pack, the answer is mostly no. If you have either the famouse FCK key or a few of the leaked corporate keys, for instance, you won't be able to install SP2. According to one MS employee, if you were rejected when installing SP1, you will be rejected when installing SP2. You will be excepted, however, if you've installed XP on multiple machines using a single CD. This appears to be the 'piracy' they're overlooking.
I'd say your mostly right, with the exception of fundamentalist Christians. We're trying too hard there to make all fundy groups sound bad. Think about it, fundamentalists Christians are people like Billy Graham and Pat Robertson. The closest thing I can think of is some wild hick bombing an abortion clinic, but even that happens rarely (once a year at most?) and is looked down upon by people like Robertson and Graham. Not trying to minimalize the horrific act of bombing an abortion clinic, just trying differentiate fundamentalist Christians (generally peaceful people) with fundamentalist Muslims (carrying out bombings almost daily in Israel, kidnapping and murdering Americans in Iraq and worldwide). I do heartily agree about the mindset in Europe though. It's sad to see anti-semitism rising there once again.
While it doesn't excuse any government for arresting a man, anti-semitic speech is always a bad thing, war time or no.
That's what you get for beating me, Bobby.
Come one come all
'Cause we're havin' a ball
We're just makin' some calls
To strangers
We're just havin' some fun
You can say want you want
And they'll never know if your deranged
Or what
But it doesn't really matter
No it doesn't really matter
'Cause we'll all be doubled over with laughter at
The expense of others
Maybe even your mother
Won't you join the VOIP Yankers today?
Is that you Bill?
Congratulations to Miguel & the whole band of Mono hackers, it's been a lot of work and you guys deserve a pat of the back. Good job guys!
Of course that means your apps will look like everyone else's and reduces your competative advantage.
I disagree, people don't typically like strange custom GUIs. People like things that are familiar to them, they find it easier to use. Personally I despise non-standard UI apps.
Mozilla has a soul? Praise Jesus it has seen the light!
$12.5 million for rendering a page poorly? Come on guys that's stretching it a bit.
Oh yes it's not unfair to say Microsoft is the root of all the world's problems, since we have evidence to prove so. That's the whole problem that you fail to see: everyone has evidence against their enemy. Tocqueville just posted "evidence" that OSS/FS is the root of all problems, but you ignore it, and probably rightfully so. Why do you ignore it? Because it's biased bull shit. The same goes for your 'evidence'. Microsoft is the cause of all evil. Right. Biased bull shit.
What's your point? This kind of over-generalization and mud slinging doesn't help anyone. It's biased unfair bullshit regardless of whether a Microsoft rubber stamper or a Linux zealot is doing it.
IBM.
So, there you have it, free software is responsible for bad laws, out sourcing and bad hair days."
That is unfair, sure. But it is the same kind of generalizing bull shit Linux zealots have been pulling regarding Microsoft, that is is responsible for all the evils of the world.
Mod me down if you must, but it's the honest truth. Generalizing groups of people, companies, or ideas is always unfair biased bull shit.
Thank you for that elaborate post. Perhaps you would like to know that Linux has added some functions to classes in Linux?
Eclipse's code completion is so slow that I just couldn't bear it. Sorry to say, Eclipse still has a long way to go.
Might they have anything in the works that could save them? What could it be?"
I seem to recall an upper management technologist at Sun mentioning something about a new language, one much different from Java.
www.urinas.gov has the story. Is this meant as a joke?
Why don't we have a national turn off your computer week?
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