The more people who buy XBox consoles, the greater numbers Microsoft can report
Figures for what? Our console 0wns j00rs? I'd think for most purposes (esp. to sign up new developers) they'd do better to quote games sales figures than installed userbase.
The XBox is a joke in the technical sense, but part of a much broader plan for future industry climates.
Why? What's wrong with it? Why is it worse than Sony's or Nintendo's console? Any evidence of insidious plans?
I'd be very surprised if the NDA was binding on source code he wrote under contract, considering they haven't actually held up their end of the bargain.
I was thinking more along the lines of leaking the company's business idea through details in the source code. Even if he obscured the details, it's still a minor (inferred) leak of which technologies the company were interested in.
I was also thinking of 'non-competitivity' clauses, but you're right: that'd probably be in the contract not the NDA.
I'd imagine the NDA and contract are separate so the NDA would likely survive breach of the contract.
You wrote the software. You're the copyright holder. You can release your software under any license you chose. GPL it, leave, and let them deal with the code.
But then
they get it legally for free
he's pissed away any chance of ever getting paid for it
Maybe I *am* cynical. Or maybe I haven't been brainwashed that WINE on Linux is the universal panacea:-p
This story's about *desktop* installs. Win2k makes a very good desktop. It does everything you'd expect of a desktop machine. You can get all the usual suspect GNU utilities ported to it. I don't need my desktop to stay up under load for months or years. I can patch almost everything without reboot, barring a handful of shared libraries or in-use drivers. I know it runs Office as well as anything because Microsoft will have QAed Office on it. I don't expect to have to trawl through the source line-by-line if there's a problem - that's why people pay MS for their software. It's not commercially sensible that I have to maintain the source of the OS I'm using in work time when we can shift that burden for a few hundred bucks a seat.
I haven't *needed* to use MS support since 1994. We had a Win3.11 network problem. They were very helpful.
And being one of those Australians who has been tapped - let me tell you it is not nice.
Especially when you are innocent.
How did you find out you were being tapped?
Was it just an uncomfortable feeling from knowing you'd been tapped, or have you actually had some of your stuff played back to you, etc.?
"Yes, Darling, I respect your opinion not to buy diamonds. Thank you for crushing my teenage Prince Charming dreams and the engagement fantasies I've fallen asleep to for the last two months.
"I appreciate that you're doing it to stop exploitation of little children in the third world. That doesn't bother you when you buy jeans, or brand name clothes, or shoes, or when you play football/soccer/basketball. I've seen you eat at McDonalds. I've even seen you drink Coca-Cola (or whatever the current corporate hate fad is). I guess if you didn't wear what you do then you wouldn't be quite so cool and easy-going but I'm troubled by your hypocrisy over diamonds, and I've got this niggling doubt that it's because you'd be spending money on me. I hope that isn't so - I don't want to think of you as cheap!
"After all, 4% of diamonds fund terrorism! That means that you've got a twenty-four out of twenty-five chance of not buying a bad diamond! I know you're not exactly Mr. Life-On-The-Edge, but can you really not take those odds to make me happy? What are the odds we've been funding some small part of the Mafia every time when we eat Italian?
"And I admire you taking a stand, but it worries me that you have some ridiculous sense of self-importance: that you're single handedly going to change the world! Is this marriage to be completely one-sided? We're not identical - to make this relationship work, we'll each have to compromise from time to time... can't you see that? I don't want to think of you as self-righteous, dull, hypocritical and cheap."
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It's long, dry, and really very dull.
It's also borderline ranting zealotry. What's with this bit?
To guarantee the free access of citizens to public information, it is indespensable that the encoding of data is not tied to a single provider.
Free access of information depends only on the provision of a front-end portal to the information. It's got nothing to do with the back-end. If I stick my data in Oracle, I can (if I really want to) pull it out and put it in MySQL. But Joe Peruvian-Public won't care if his government's using MySQL or Oracle.
And when will Apache deliver truly high performance by having a non blocking I/O model?
OK, I'm not a Linux man: but I didn't think Linux actually supported proper asynchronous I/O. And the acryonym, for better or for worse, is still LAMP and not FAMP or SAMP (or even SAOP).
(WISA, anyone?:-) )
Sure, you can pass a shed-load of sockets into a select() call but I can't see select()'s efficiency being even close to linear in set size.
Congratulations on having production requirements. What the hell does that have to do with this article?
I suppose he's saying, "Why bother releasing? It ain't all that great."
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Let's call it Hercules!
... the Greek demi-god?
I think you're being *way* too paranoid.
What do you think are the chances Microsoft employees are contributing buggy patches to key open source projects, causing buffer overruns and worms?
Almost nil.
Even if they are, the maintainers share the blame for not reviewing them properly.
The more people who buy XBox consoles, the greater numbers Microsoft can report
Figures for what? Our console 0wns j00rs? I'd think for most purposes (esp. to sign up new developers) they'd do better to quote games sales figures than installed userbase.
The XBox is a joke in the technical sense, but part of a much broader plan for future industry climates.
Why? What's wrong with it? Why is it worse than Sony's or Nintendo's console? Any evidence of insidious plans?
I'd be very surprised if the NDA was binding on source code he wrote under contract, considering they haven't actually held up their end of the bargain.
I was thinking more along the lines of leaking the company's business idea through details in the source code. Even if he obscured the details, it's still a minor (inferred) leak of which technologies the company were interested in.
I was also thinking of 'non-competitivity' clauses, but you're right: that'd probably be in the contract not the NDA.
I'd imagine the NDA and contract are separate so the NDA would likely survive breach of the contract.
You wrote the software. You're the copyright holder. You can release your software under any license you chose. GPL it, leave, and let them deal with the code.
But then
Maybe I *am* cynical. Or maybe I haven't been brainwashed that WINE on Linux is the universal panacea :-p
This story's about *desktop* installs. Win2k makes a very good desktop. It does everything you'd expect of a desktop machine. You can get all the usual suspect GNU utilities ported to it. I don't need my desktop to stay up under load for months or years. I can patch almost everything without reboot, barring a handful of shared libraries or in-use drivers. I know it runs Office as well as anything because Microsoft will have QAed Office on it. I don't expect to have to trawl through the source line-by-line if there's a problem - that's why people pay MS for their software. It's not commercially sensible that I have to maintain the source of the OS I'm using in work time when we can shift that burden for a few hundred bucks a seat.
I haven't *needed* to use MS support since 1994. We had a Win3.11 network problem. They were very helpful.
I mentioned how you never have to deal with rebooting in Linux and he seemed quite interested.
Why? How often is he ever going to have to reboot it again?
Software install reboots are required to upgrade shared libraries or system services that are in use. Period.
He'd have to install something major to need another one.
Windows compatability gets better every single week.
Does Microsoft give Office technical support for WINE installs?
Why run it in an emulator at all when you could run the real thing?
If you're willing to shell out for the Office suite, why aren't you willing to buy or use the OS?
And Win2k *is* stable.
This is great; more filesystem support is always good in my opinion.
Why?
Haven't we already got one optimised for every eventuality?
Are all the filesystems actively maintained and tested?
BTW, I still have trouble getting XFS to work on linux-2.4.19 because sgi won't update their stable XFS patch from 2.4.18.
... so why don't you update it yourself?
And being one of those Australians who has been tapped - let me tell you it is not nice. Especially when you are innocent. How did you find out you were being tapped? Was it just an uncomfortable feeling from knowing you'd been tapped, or have you actually had some of your stuff played back to you, etc.?
Actually, I think that margin of error makes sense. It's hard to identify linux computers.
Agreed. So I'm going to be wary of any figure at all without convincing even-handed research to back it up.
For Windows they can simply claim every sale (except upgrades) as a new user. It might not be accurate, but it's easier to count and harder to refute.
Yes. Which makes me suspect the Linux number is based on distro downloads for the same reasons. Which means I must count for a dozen users at least.
Can you tell me to the nearest hundred million how many Christians there are in this world?
No. But I'm not going to try and base an argument around any such figure.
by last count, there are between 10 and 30 million GNU/Linux users.
That's hard to believe.
What are your sources? Why such a large margin of error?
"Yes, Darling, I respect your opinion not to buy diamonds. Thank you for crushing my teenage Prince Charming dreams and the engagement fantasies I've fallen asleep to for the last two months.
"I appreciate that you're doing it to stop exploitation of little children in the third world. That doesn't bother you when you buy jeans, or brand name clothes, or shoes, or when you play football/soccer/basketball. I've seen you eat at McDonalds. I've even seen you drink Coca-Cola (or whatever the current corporate hate fad is). I guess if you didn't wear what you do then you wouldn't be quite so cool and easy-going but I'm troubled by your hypocrisy over diamonds, and I've got this niggling doubt that it's because you'd be spending money on me. I hope that isn't so - I don't want to think of you as cheap!
"After all, 4% of diamonds fund terrorism! That means that you've got a twenty-four out of twenty-five chance of not buying a bad diamond! I know you're not exactly Mr. Life-On-The-Edge, but can you really not take those odds to make me happy? What are the odds we've been funding some small part of the Mafia every time when we eat Italian?
"And I admire you taking a stand, but it worries me that you have some ridiculous sense of self-importance: that you're single handedly going to change the world! Is this marriage to be completely one-sided? We're not identical - to make this relationship work, we'll each have to compromise from time to time... can't you see that? I don't want to think of you as self-righteous, dull, hypocritical and cheap."
It's long, dry, and really very dull.
It's also borderline ranting zealotry. What's with this bit?
Free access of information depends only on the provision of a front-end portal to the information. It's got nothing to do with the back-end. If I stick my data in Oracle, I can (if I really want to) pull it out and put it in MySQL. But Joe Peruvian-Public won't care if his government's using MySQL or Oracle.
Where is the anti-H1B marches, BTW? Mexico. Immigration *will* let you back in afterwards. Honest.
And when will Apache deliver truly high performance by having a non blocking I/O model? OK, I'm not a Linux man: but I didn't think Linux actually supported proper asynchronous I/O. And the acryonym, for better or for worse, is still LAMP and not FAMP or SAMP (or even SAOP). (WISA, anyone? :-) )
Sure, you can pass a shed-load of sockets into a select() call but I can't see select()'s efficiency being even close to linear in set size.
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support scripts written in the language Pike (which both servers are written in as well).
and Pike, according to the Caudium website, is interpreted.
What's the point of having non-blocking I/O if you're going to run via an interpreter? Does it really have respectible performance?
Congratulations on having production requirements. What the hell does that have to do with this article? I suppose he's saying, "Why bother releasing? It ain't all that great."