First, the EoL for NT is after the election, so that's not really a concern. Also, the fact that they haven't upgraded doesn't mean they don't have a clear upgrade path. It's perfectly clear.
Wether or not it's a good path is a seperate debate, and this being slashdot I can imagine how that debate would go, but that's not the point.
There are enough problems with computerized voting, no need for the extra FUD.
Re:laughing through bared teeth...
on
Amateur Revolution?
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
"If you think the corp execs haven't figured out a whole new level of subterfuge and manipulation, you're kidding yourself."
Assuming for the sake of argument that I accept your proposition that Rap/Hip-Hop/Teeny-Boppers are nothing more that cashing in, I still fail to see how there has to be some manipulative corporate fat-cat behind it.
At what point do we accept that the great unwashed masses are in fact stupid? I have no doubt that the record execs are, by and large, slimeballs who care about nothing more than making a buck, but so what? Why is that their fault, and not the fault of the idiots who keep buying that crap? Are we to believe that Josie and the Pussycats was a documentary, and not a work of fiction?
I'm not trying to get the record companies off the hook, but I do think the people who keep forking over the cash are more to blame. Stop buying it, they'll stop producing it.
Wouldn't deliberately making a computer incompatible with Windows be in the same vein as many of the bad business practices that MS is often accused of?
When will Windows get such full featured scanning/ocr software by default? How about a decent cd burner app?
Why, so Xerox/Nero can sue them for anti-trust violations along with Netscape and Real?
If they don't add these things, they are lacking features that *nix has, if they do add them they are using their monopoly unfairly and should be sued unto oblivion.
Is that about the gist of it?
Netscape lost because they stopped producing a better product. Realplayer lost because they have an extremely user-hostile product that offers nothing Media Player doesn't, only Media Player does it withough annoying me. Wordperfect lost because Word was a better (and more expensive) word processor. It really is that simple.
They can try to crush Google all they want, but unless they have a better product, it won't work.
Slashdot Mirror
First, the EoL for NT is after the election, so that's not really a concern. Also, the fact that they haven't upgraded doesn't mean they don't have a clear upgrade path. It's perfectly clear.
Wether or not it's a good path is a seperate debate, and this being slashdot I can imagine how that debate would go, but that's not the point.
There are enough problems with computerized voting, no need for the extra FUD.
At what point do we accept that the great unwashed masses are in fact stupid? I have no doubt that the record execs are, by and large, slimeballs who care about nothing more than making a buck, but so what? Why is that their fault, and not the fault of the idiots who keep buying that crap? Are we to believe that Josie and the Pussycats was a documentary, and not a work of fiction?
I'm not trying to get the record companies off the hook, but I do think the people who keep forking over the cash are more to blame. Stop buying it, they'll stop producing it.
Wouldn't deliberately making a computer incompatible with Windows be in the same vein as many of the bad business practices that MS is often accused of?
Netscape lost because they stopped producing a better product. Realplayer lost because they have an extremely user-hostile product that offers nothing Media Player doesn't, only Media Player does it withough annoying me. Wordperfect lost because Word was a better (and more expensive) word processor. It really is that simple.
They can try to crush Google all they want, but unless they have a better product, it won't work.
How is this different? My understanding was that a BSD-style license was free software. How is it not?