Isn't it also possible that Microsoft hope that a 3rd party will do a
BitMover
style closed source SMB implementation for Linux.
Such a product could, potentially, provide better compatibility with
Windows, by leveraging access to MS specifications. And it would legally have
to remain proprietary closed source.
This would effectively drive a wedge
between "Free Software" and "Open Source".
And ultimately if this 3rd party ever outlived its usefulness
Microsoft could snuff it out like all those previous proprietary competitors.
I think the unix method of "no extensions" is even more dangerous... I get an e-mail with an executable file attached that's named "harhar.jpg" and I double-click on it in KDE and it executes because the file manager has detected it to be executable.
I have not used KDE but the scenario described has no relation to any "UNIX method" of handling filetypes. Downloaded files should not have an executable bit set unless the user has chosen to set it.
I can see the point you are making, and of course you can choose to go and find another job. (Though this will be more difficult once you start approching or exceeding ~65 years old)
The problem with this "head down, keep going" approach is that when generally applied, ordinary workers can make no reply to the general "race to the bottom" that Corporate Globalisation argues is "inevitable". Where will it all end up?
Most places that store login information encrypt it
If you trust the admin to store a hash of your password, then why not trust them with the password itself?
I have a bad feeling that lots of the "roll-your-own" logins on web-sites implemented with the same rigor and attention to detail as 90% of the production software I've seen.
If you are defending the ability of your family to eat, you are being threatened with physical violence. But yes, tactically, this can often be best fought against with non-violent opposition, like using collective strike action.:-)
I really don't see the point of your argument. Surely you are also then a COBOL Programmer with years of business knowledge and experience. And you are perfectly capable of learning whatever language is fashionable this month.
People are not like machines, people have valuable experience and can learn new skills. The obsolete argument is flawed.
Surely it is obvious that IBM has decided that cheap labor is currently of more value than their current staff's experience.
And I would add that this does not help anyone really except the employers. It is a race to the bottom where today's cheap workers will in turn be replaced by even cheaper workers. This process can be seen in the growing disparity between the incomes of executives compared to average wages.
Unless workers do resist with unions and strikes they will have no input at all into decisions which could ruin their lives. In that context workers have a right to do whatever it takes to ensure their livelihoods.
And the best thing is that when a company lays off workers it no longer needs, those workers can in turn just get rid of the children/dependants they can no longer afford.
"I will vote for you, and contribute to your campaign. If you betray my trust, I will vote for your opponent in the next election, and contribute twice as much to his campaign as I did to yours."
Is this the martingale system of campaign finance?
I suspect the only reason The Open Group has not contested their right to do so is the potential repercussions of the ancestral Unix code being declared Not Unix.
Unix is Not unIX?
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Yes MBCook has at last found the unspoken taboos of our society. Boy I never would have thought that these ideas even existed without this post! Amazing!
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Maybe s/he missed the point of the article, because I think that ideas spouted by Multimillion dollar media networks (eg Fox news) and thousands of radio shock jocks don't really count as unspoken taboos.
In fact these bigoted (look up the definition) ideas are just the kind of falsehoods that need to be challenged (to the extent there is even a point to argue with.
The only thing really shocking about this kind of tripe is that despite having a great deal more money and media time promoting it, it largely fails to win proportionate number of adherents.
Interpretation is the key. The Bible, like other influential literature, has been read and understood in different ways through-out its history. Christian merchants in the roman empire did not use their readings of the bible to control the masses. Those masses were largely not christian but various pre-christian pagan religions depending on the region.
By the time Christianity became an official state religion anywhere it had long ago been written, edited, interpreted and reinterpreted.
Fortunately for the future sales of the book its messages were varied and vague enough to allow for all sorts of interpretations.
So the Bible could be used for centuries as an ideological support for slavery, but also be used to argue against slavery.
The current US/UK coalition (or the UN if they take over the show) may have a tricky situation on their hands if the Shia majority decide, in free and fair elections, that they fancy a quasi-theocracy...
I don't know, when the Chileans elected a govenment that didn't suit US business, Kissenger et al. just engineered a coup, killed off the govenment and their supporters and installed a military dictatorship.
I guess this outcome would be a bit dizzying in that Iraq ends up where it started in 1991. (Hundreds of thousands of dead iraqis, and hundreds of dead americans later... sick)
I guess marriage legislation varies around the world. But please point out some legislation from anywhere which states a consenting woman and man must have children or their marriage is void.
So when can we opt out of that "communistic" government run police and army and fund our own self defence? I guess in America there are Militia groups. But what exactly is the general justification for socialised defence/policing of people but not of disease/illness.
No matter how loved the government is there's always going to be a group of people calling for it to be overthrown. And, inciting others to overthrow ANY government is going to have a detrimental effect on a lot of people if it were to actually occur. Therefore, I think this case ties in to the whole "you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater" thing.
So is the Declaration of independence protected or not protected speech?
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Isn't it also possible that Microsoft hope that a 3rd party will do a BitMover style closed source SMB implementation for Linux.
Such a product could, potentially, provide better compatibility with Windows, by leveraging access to MS specifications. And it would legally have to remain proprietary closed source.
This would effectively drive a wedge between "Free Software" and "Open Source".
And ultimately if this 3rd party ever outlived its usefulness Microsoft could snuff it out like all those previous proprietary competitors.
"Treason doth never prosper: ... For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." -- John Harington
I think the unix method of "no extensions" is even more dangerous ... I get an e-mail with an executable file attached that's named "harhar.jpg" and I double-click on it in KDE and it executes because the file manager has detected it to be executable.
I have not used KDE but the scenario described has no relation to any "UNIX method" of handling filetypes. Downloaded files should not have an executable bit set unless the user has chosen to set it.
Yeah, and sometimes that means taking collective action, like the workers at IBM in Germany.
I can see the point you are making, and of course you can choose to go and find another job. (Though this will be more difficult once you start approching or exceeding ~65 years old)
The problem with this "head down, keep going" approach is that when generally applied, ordinary workers can make no reply to the general "race to the bottom" that Corporate Globalisation argues is "inevitable". Where will it all end up?
Most places that store login information encrypt it
If you trust the admin to store a hash of your password, then why not trust them with the password itself?
I have a bad feeling that lots of the "roll-your-own" logins on web-sites implemented with the same rigor and attention to detail as 90% of the production software I've seen.
If you are defending the ability of your family to eat, you are being threatened with physical violence. But yes, tactically, this can often be best fought against with non-violent opposition, like using collective strike action. :-)
Cheers,
Ben
I really don't see the point of your argument. Surely you are also then a COBOL Programmer with years of business knowledge and experience. And you are perfectly capable of learning whatever language is fashionable this month.
People are not like machines, people have valuable experience and can learn new skills. The obsolete argument is flawed.
Surely it is obvious that IBM has decided that cheap labor is currently of more value than their current staff's experience.
And I would add that this does not help anyone really except the employers. It is a race to the bottom where today's cheap workers will in turn be replaced by even cheaper workers. This process can be seen in the growing disparity between the incomes of executives compared to average wages.
Unless workers do resist with unions and strikes they will have no input at all into decisions which could ruin their lives. In that context workers have a right to do whatever it takes to ensure their livelihoods.
And the best thing is that when a company lays off workers it no longer needs, those workers can in turn just get rid of the children/dependants they can no longer afford.
When you put up a billboard, how much do you have to pay each time it's viewed?
Just once, for the first viewing, all the rest are free.
It's like breaking the pen of someone who uses exaggerated metaphors.
I could imagine that many users would change their mail-provider if they would get rid of all that spam
But not many users would change to a provider if it meant they couldn't receive plain-old, real SMTP emails from all their existing contacts.
Email will always be targetted by spam and the arms race will continue forever. :-(
"I will vote for you, and contribute to your campaign. If you betray my trust, I will vote for your opponent in the next election, and contribute twice as much to his campaign as I did to yours."
Is this the martingale system of campaign finance?
I suspect the only reason The Open Group has not contested their right to do so is the potential repercussions of the ancestral Unix code being declared Not Unix.
Unix is Not unIX?
Maybe s/he missed the point of the article, because I think that ideas spouted by Multimillion dollar media networks (eg Fox news) and thousands of radio shock jocks don't really count as unspoken taboos.
In fact these bigoted (look up the definition) ideas are just the kind of falsehoods that need to be challenged (to the extent there is even a point to argue with.
The only thing really shocking about this kind of tripe is that despite having a great deal more money and media time promoting it, it largely fails to win proportionate number of adherents.
Interpretation is the key. The Bible, like other influential literature, has been read and understood in different ways through-out its history. Christian merchants in the roman empire did not use their readings of the bible to control the masses. Those masses were largely not christian but various pre-christian pagan religions depending on the region.
By the time Christianity became an official state religion anywhere it had long ago been written, edited, interpreted and reinterpreted.
Fortunately for the future sales of the book its messages were varied and vague enough to allow for all sorts of interpretations.
So the Bible could be used for centuries as an ideological support for slavery, but also be used to argue against slavery.
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Vim
Is
Superior
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I don't know, when the Chileans elected a govenment that didn't suit US business, Kissenger et al. just engineered a coup, killed off the govenment and their supporters and installed a military dictatorship.
I guess this outcome would be a bit dizzying in that Iraq ends up where it started in 1991. (Hundreds of thousands of dead iraqis, and hundreds of dead americans later... sick)
I guess marriage legislation varies around the world. But please point out some legislation from anywhere which states a consenting woman and man must have children or their marriage is void.
So when can we opt out of that "communistic" government run police and army and fund our own self defence? I guess in America there are Militia groups. But what exactly is the general justification for socialised defence/policing of people but not of disease/illness.
If the gun explodes due to a major design flaw, killing the owner, then blame should lie with the manufacturer.
No matter how loved the government is there's always going to be a group of people calling for it to be overthrown. And, inciting others to overthrow ANY government is going to have a detrimental effect on a lot of people if it were to actually occur. Therefore, I think this case ties in to the whole "you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater" thing.
So is the Declaration of independence protected or not protected speech?
isnt-that-horse department?