Hmmm... guess I wouldn't know that without being a beta tester. Real-time conversations to mimic verbal communication are a bit different from what's possible with e-mail, though.
Let's face it, business is about money. If some companies believe in "doing no evil", it's simply because, in the opinion of the founders/managers, "doing no evil" is a good way to make money. On the long term, though, pissing everybody off is probably not a viable business strategy. Sometimes you work yourself into a corner (like SCO has) and you keep making the wrong decisions in the hope that everything will turn out fine in the end.
Many networks used home-grown routers based on Linux, FreeBSC, user-space TCP/Firewall/VPN implementations, or even windows. However, the vendor list only includes commercial router manufacturers. This seems to me like a serious problem waiting to happen; the would-be exploiter now know what systems would remain unpatched for a long time.
well, I wonder how much they expect to make from the lawsuit in the short time period, since it takes little time to switch to alternative file formats.
There are no job offer NDAs; so Microsoft wouldn't offer Linus a job they were not pretty sure he would take. It would be a PR nightmare. Besides, it's pretty clear, thanks to the GPL, that the only thing Linus can do for Microsoft is to stop working on Linux... sure as hell he won't
Locking in your customers to a product, even if it's not in the best interest of those customers, especially when you have the ability to open things up, is at best a short term strategy. As a company, you're trading goodwill for money.
To succeed with this strategy, you hope you're in a market where the monetary value of the goodwill you lose doesn't exceed the extra money you get from the lock-in. You hope you don't have a company like Google or Microsoft (in compete mode) that is intent on giving the customer the best deal even if it costs more! Else you have to just open up like AOL just did. At least GMail won't be providing IMAP.
my two cents.
The greatest men are those who keep shaking up the world even after they are long gone. Albert Einstein wasn't a businessman, or a soldier, but look how much research and spending has been affected by his findings. Kudos!
Wouldn't it be nice if the full text of the lectures at such meetings were available to reporters and technical writers? A lot of authoritative Open-Source knowledge is presented at events like this and never becomes available to Joe public... at least with transcripts available we can get writers to _re-organize_ the information later on.
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This is the experience of one man, one sound card, one Linux distribution and he feels he has discovered the Linux Archilles heel! And that's not all, he wont tell us exactly what the companies are or what board he is talking about. Wow!
Yes, you're right.
Except, of course, that the price to performance ratio of the X86 platform remains unmatched; X86-64 has removed some of the limitations of this platform; limitations that made it unsuitable for the high end, and now Intel has been forced to follow. I fear for Sun's long-term future. on the long run, value for money always wins in business. Or so I think.
As always, it depends on how your site visitors react to the knowledge of what you do. When you want the latest scoop, you go to the 'scoop sites'. When you want detailed, substantiated information, you go to authoritative sources! For example, I have struggled a bit with this issue on my weblog and I eventually decided to go for what I enjoy writing, cold as it may be for some people. the kind of visitors I need will come. Be yourself
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For server-side programming, they'll need their own sort of Servlet API _or_ at least something that connects to Apache (see mod_cpp). There are conceivable ways to implement memory protection for such C++ Servlets, e.g. running each separate Servlet as it's own multithreaded application (another name for SpeedyCGI?)
Nielsen told us that we only need to test with 5 users performing representative tasks and for the most part I believe him. Convincing the open source program authors to make the necessary changes (as observed by the testers) is always the hard part. But then, documenting the findings of usability studies of any scale and constructing an authoritative document will be useful _____________ my weblog
We all know what's wrong with Linux for the average user, but that's precisely why desktop Linux companies are in business. And they do conduct usability studies, and implement what they can. Having all the information in one place might be useful, anyway, implementation is what counts... but who says thefindings will be implemented accross the board?
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Even the google cache copy seems inaccessible.. Here is the Freshmeat Project Page for Scribus 1.1.6, and I also have a link to the home page
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Hmmm ... guess I wouldn't know that without being a beta tester. Real-time conversations to mimic verbal communication are a bit different from what's possible with e-mail, though.
Doesn't JPEG 2000 have its own patent issues?
Dear Mr. Brin, now that we're providing webmail services, don't you feel that a Google Messenger should be in order?
Let's face it, business is about money. If some companies believe in "doing no evil", it's simply because, in the opinion of the founders/managers, "doing no evil" is a good way to make money. On the long term, though, pissing everybody off is probably not a viable business strategy. Sometimes you work yourself into a corner (like SCO has) and you keep making the wrong decisions in the hope that everything will turn out fine in the end.
Many networks used home-grown routers based on Linux, FreeBSC, user-space TCP/Firewall/VPN implementations, or even windows. However, the vendor list only includes commercial router manufacturers. This seems to me like a serious problem waiting to happen; the would-be exploiter now know what systems would remain unpatched for a long time.
well, I wonder how much they expect to make from the lawsuit in the short time period, since it takes little time to switch to alternative file formats.
There are no job offer NDAs; so Microsoft wouldn't offer Linus a job they were not pretty sure he would take. It would be a PR nightmare. Besides, it's pretty clear, thanks to the GPL, that the only thing Linus can do for Microsoft is to stop working on Linux... sure as hell he won't
But if you are, be ready to make hard sacrifices.
Geez ... so you actually think their lawyers will allow this :-P
Locking in your customers to a product, even if it's not in the best interest of those customers, especially when you have the ability to open things up, is at best a short term strategy. As a company, you're trading goodwill for money. To succeed with this strategy, you hope you're in a market where the monetary value of the goodwill you lose doesn't exceed the extra money you get from the lock-in. You hope you don't have a company like Google or Microsoft (in compete mode) that is intent on giving the customer the best deal even if it costs more! Else you have to just open up like AOL just did. At least GMail won't be providing IMAP. my two cents.
Well,
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This goes to show that they could do this all along. They just needed a little nudge by Google's gmail. Competition always encourages innovation
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The greatest men are those who keep shaking up the world even after they are long gone. Albert Einstein wasn't a businessman, or a soldier, but look how much research and spending has been affected by his findings. Kudos!
Nope, I agree that I missed some parts of the summary.
Wouldn't it be nice if the full text of the lectures at such meetings were available to reporters and technical writers? A lot of authoritative Open-Source knowledge is presented at events like this and never becomes available to Joe public... at least with transcripts available we can get writers to _re-organize_ the information later on.
just a nigerian personal web publisher
Yeah, you're right.
This is the experience of one man, one sound card, one Linux distribution and he feels he has discovered the Linux Archilles heel! And that's not all, he wont tell us exactly what the companies are or what board he is talking about. Wow!
Can the KDE Desktop be made to run on Windows, using the available X Servers and maybe MinGW?
Yes, you're right. Except, of course, that the price to performance ratio of the X86 platform remains unmatched; X86-64 has removed some of the limitations of this platform; limitations that made it unsuitable for the high end, and now Intel has been forced to follow. I fear for Sun's long-term future. on the long run, value for money always wins in business. Or so I think.
As always, it depends on how your site visitors react to the knowledge of what you do. When you want the latest scoop, you go to the 'scoop sites'. When you want detailed, substantiated information, you go to authoritative sources! For example, I have struggled a bit with this issue on my weblog and I eventually decided to go for what I enjoy writing, cold as it may be for some people. the kind of visitors I need will come. Be yourself
For server-side programming, they'll need their own sort of Servlet API _or_ at least something that connects to Apache (see mod_cpp). There are conceivable ways to implement memory protection for such C++ Servlets, e.g. running each separate Servlet as it's own multithreaded application (another name for SpeedyCGI?)
Nielsen told us that we only need to test with 5 users performing representative tasks and for the most part I believe him. Convincing the open source program authors to make the necessary changes (as observed by the testers) is always the hard part. But then, documenting the findings of usability studies of any scale and constructing an authoritative document will be useful
_____________
my weblog
We all know what's wrong with Linux for the average user, but that's precisely why desktop Linux companies are in business. And they do conduct usability studies, and implement what they can. Having all the information in one place might be useful, anyway, implementation is what counts... but who says thefindings will be implemented accross the board?
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