It's simple really. If you have signed an NDA then your "free spech" / journalistic rights are nil / nada for that item. If a journalist is dumb enough to sign such a thing and then write about it... well shame on them and sue their butt or whatever.
OTOH if they got the information from another source who has singed an NDA. Well to bad, the journalist should not be required to reveal sources.
I say the heck with it and fire up the Tera forming equipment. No body lives there so I say we plant an earth flag on it and call it ours. In a couple of hundreds years we'd have a nifty second home.
Besides if there were any intelligent life there and they couldn't stop our Tera forming equipment..... well they must not be to intelligent.
What Microsoft does not want you to know or think about is the difference between a fork with the proprietary Unixes and Linux.
With all those proprietary types, yeah a fork is "bad" cause the code bases will never, never merge together. The opposite of that is the strength of Linux (if it ever did fork), any of those differences in code bases can be merged to one or the other or both. That's a good thing cause any improvements can be had by the other.
The 2038 problem isn't a problem at all. According to recent program I watched on The Discovery Channel about hidden code contained in the Koran(?) or was it the Bible. The world will end in 2012. Which is great cause that's when my drivers license expires.
I think that was the gist with the study to look at the operating system itself. Since there are a number of things "integrated" into XP that are not normally an "OS", those items have to be included such as IE. Again that is not the fault of linux.
In my mind it is a fair study (so far as it goes). When Microsoft decides to heed the advice they were given years ago not to take the path they have, then perhaps another study would have a different out come.
My take is this comparison is at the "OS" level. Since Microsoft insists on integrating everything including the kitchen sink where as Linux does not. IMO it is a far comparison.
Of course the outcome would be different if a complete distro of Linux was compared to XP. Probably (just a guess) to the negative for Linux.
However as I stated this seems to be a comparison of OSes only. It is not Linuxes fault they follow a more sane methodology in operating system design.
Now I know there are loads of prior art for that sort of thing. I was developing Computer Based Training packages back in 1987 and I know there were many other companies doing the same or similar way before that time frame.
What's the big deal here and why is everyone moaning. Don't ya get it? It's marketing and engineering to make you buy upgrades/memory plugins, etc. Ya'll should be used to this sort of thing. Microsoft has been doing this for years. New OS needs more RAM, needs more powerfull CPU, needs bigger hard drive, etc.
To me the downside of a self updating system out weights any up side. All it takes is that one failed automatic update that hoses a system or some application you really really depend on and it takes hours to recover. And it always seems to happen when the system or application is needed the most.
No thanks. There is a reason sysadmins do not like automatic updates and that reason has nothing to do with job security.
The only time you should really update anything is for security reasons, an existing application has some bug that hinders or prevents it full use or you need some additional functionality.
I don't see it as any wonderful new business model. I suspect the primary reason small businesses as described in the article are "overlooked" has more to do with said businesses not wanting to disrupt what they already have that serves them just fine.
Hmm, I've never considered the flying car to anything near a holy grail of anything, let alone technology.
Would it be innovative? Dunno. To me it seems not. Unless you want to consider power to weight ratios innovative, which I really don't. Yes I realize there is a little more to it than that but that is the bulk of it.
Maybe it's the term innovative that trips me up. It's such a miss used term anymore it has little meaning for me.
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There is nothing wrong in of itself with releasing software into the public domain. The question you have to ask yourself as a developer is how do you want your code handled, treated by others.
Code in the public domain can be had by anyone for any reason and AFAIK they need not mention in the least your contributions of that code. Neither are they required to contribute their contributions back to the public domain.
Under GPL, if you distribute your code outside your own use (ie, internal use), your contributions are given back to the community so someone else may enhace your work, etc.
Lol, oh boy this ought to be good. What could SCOG possibly make available GrokLaw does not? All Groklaw does it make available copies of official court documents, with of course commentaries by any who desire.
This DMSP image produced by the Block V spacecraft is nothing new and has been around for a very long time. As far back as 1982 we used this image to create a picture we gave our students who reached honor grad status.
If you are truly a staunch supporter of Linux and OSS your comments of the General Public License being viral embarrasses you and your only real intent was trolling.
If you are not happy with the requirements of GPL then switch to FreeBSD or some such.
Why would IBM or Novell want to fritter away 65 million for obsolete technology?
Because that's pretty much all SCOG has. If you look at their recent updates to Unixware, if were not for all the GPL applications and code they included with the OS, it would be pretty useless.
And as you may or may not know, all that GPL code SCOG included can be had for free.
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It's simple really. If you have signed an NDA then your "free spech" / journalistic rights are nil / nada for that item. If a journalist is dumb enough to sign such a thing and then write about it... well shame on them and sue their butt or whatever. OTOH if they got the information from another source who has singed an NDA. Well to bad, the journalist should not be required to reveal sources.
Yes it is simple stupidity. Alright who to my precious..... IP!
I say the heck with it and fire up the Tera forming equipment. No body lives there so I say we plant an earth flag on it and call it ours. In a couple of hundreds years we'd have a nifty second home. Besides if there were any intelligent life there and they couldn't stop our Tera forming equipment..... well they must not be to intelligent.
What Microsoft does not want you to know or think about is the difference between a fork with the proprietary Unixes and Linux. With all those proprietary types, yeah a fork is "bad" cause the code bases will never, never merge together. The opposite of that is the strength of Linux (if it ever did fork), any of those differences in code bases can be merged to one or the other or both. That's a good thing cause any improvements can be had by the other.
I stopped watching that program almost as quickly as G4 took over. TechTV was a great show, to bad they have driven it into the dirt.
That's really, really big man.
Rocko.
The 2038 problem isn't a problem at all. According to recent program I watched on The Discovery Channel about hidden code contained in the Koran(?) or was it the Bible. The world will end in 2012. Which is great cause that's when my drivers license expires.
I guess he has never heard of checksums.
In my mind it is a fair study (so far as it goes). When Microsoft decides to heed the advice they were given years ago not to take the path they have, then perhaps another study would have a different out come.
Of course the outcome would be different if a complete distro of Linux was compared to XP. Probably (just a guess) to the negative for Linux.
However as I stated this seems to be a comparison of OSes only. It is not Linuxes fault they follow a more sane methodology in operating system design.
Dunno what the authors problem is but works fine for me and konqueror (3.3.2).
LOL so when well Dell call for Microsoft to lower their costs. Phttt.
Now I know there are loads of prior art for that sort of thing. I was developing Computer Based Training packages back in 1987 and I know there were many other companies doing the same or similar way before that time frame.
What's the big deal here and why is everyone moaning. Don't ya get it? It's marketing and engineering to make you buy upgrades/memory plugins, etc. Ya'll should be used to this sort of thing. Microsoft has been doing this for years. New OS needs more RAM, needs more powerfull CPU, needs bigger hard drive, etc.
No thanks. There is a reason sysadmins do not like automatic updates and that reason has nothing to do with job security.
The only time you should really update anything is for security reasons, an existing application has some bug that hinders or prevents it full use or you need some additional functionality.
I don't see it as any wonderful new business model. I suspect the primary reason small businesses as described in the article are "overlooked" has more to do with said businesses not wanting to disrupt what they already have that serves them just fine.
How many times now have we heard from AOL that Netscape will be resurrected from the dead..... only later to hear it was still born?
Sure.. it can't be any worse than the crappy way things have/are been/being handled.
The "charity" of course being those that benifit Sun. Doh!
Would it be innovative? Dunno. To me it seems not. Unless you want to consider power to weight ratios innovative, which I really don't. Yes I realize there is a little more to it than that but that is the bulk of it.
Maybe it's the term innovative that trips me up. It's such a miss used term anymore it has little meaning for me.
Under GPL, if you distribute your code outside your own use (ie, internal use), your contributions are given back to the community so someone else may enhace your work, etc.
I think that is more or less right.
Lol, oh boy this ought to be good. What could SCOG possibly make available GrokLaw does not? All Groklaw does it make available copies of official court documents, with of course commentaries by any who desire.
This DMSP image produced by the Block V spacecraft is nothing new and has been around for a very long time. As far back as 1982 we used this image to create a picture we gave our students who reached honor grad status.
What and this should be a surprise? You mean no one saw this coming? What a bunch of dunderheads Americans are. All this non-sense because of 9/11.
If you are not happy with the requirements of GPL then switch to FreeBSD or some such.
Why would IBM or Novell want to fritter away 65 million for obsolete technology? Because that's pretty much all SCOG has. If you look at their recent updates to Unixware, if were not for all the GPL applications and code they included with the OS, it would be pretty useless. And as you may or may not know, all that GPL code SCOG included can be had for free.